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[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak, fried onions, and chips

It turned out to be a thick-cut steak, though I hadn’t realised that when I bought it last week. Some antisocial customer had completely messed up the steak display, presumably searching for The One, and turned it into a lucky dip where you couldn’t be sure if the next thing you picked up would be ribeye, fillet, or sirloin. After the third attempt, I noticed there was a ribeye one shelf up with lovely marbling, so just grabbed that one without noticing its extra thickness

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Not-as-Big Sainsbury's seemed a bit busier than it usually is in the morning, so I don’t think I’ll be rearranging my schedule permanently

On my return, I found a further email from the management company giving more details about the ongoing watery woes. It seems it may be the stack pipe itself that’s the source of the problem, so they now have to commission an investigation of that

For lunch, I got a Pukka sausage roll, which has just finished heating up in the air fryer. So I’m going to eat that now

[NickFitz]

Just realised this was a pali! Sorry for the late acknowledgement NF

I hadn’t noticed either!

I was probably too annoyed by the disappointing flimsiness of the Netflix documentary, which had the ingredients to be a really good series if only they had a little less contempt for their viewers

[NickFitz]

Having waited in all morning, no plumber had arrived. According to the original email advising me of the matter, this meant that they might have been coming tomorrow morning instead and nobody had told me

I emailed the management company to check what was going on. It turns out they were here this morning, but it seems they found the source of the leak elsewhere so didn’t need to come into mine after all!

It would have been nice if they’d just knocked on the door or something to let me know I was off the hook

Anyway, now I know the place - well, my bit of it - isn’t about to be washed away in a flood, I’m going to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s to do the shopping. I don’t need much, but the main thing I’m lacking is anything I fancy having for lunch, or sufficient materials for lunches next week

[ladymuck]

Tea has been cider-braised pork and chips

This was accompanied by E1 of Spycraft on Netflix, a documentary series. Unfortunately, it’s from the USA, so it’s utterly lacking in depth as they assume viewers are incapable of either taking in complex information or paying attention to any specific subject for longer than a minute or two. So they either say the same vague thing several times in different ways (“drones let agencies look at things from the sky”), presumably hoping one of them will stick, or they start talking about something interesting (the Thing, various US covert operations from the Cold War) but they don’t stay with it for more than a couple of minutes, during which time they’ve imparted about as much information as you’d expect to get from the first couple of paragraphs of an article on the subject

Just realised this was a pali! Sorry for the late acknowledgement NF

[ladymuck]

It's cold in my little office. I've had to put the fan heater on, in addition to having a blanket over my legs.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky with high cloud.

Cold in here at 13 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 4 deg in the leanto, 1 deg in the saltinghouse.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 48% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of March 2020 LM got wet on the way to work but the barbour jacket worked well, scruff popped in, along with Churchill and NF, whilst WTFH was looking at watches again, whereas I found a nice reference to the 1918 flu.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Still took 3 miles before I could feel my fingers again.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: more wailing & gnashing of teeth on R4. Woe! Woe! and Thrice Woe! The End is Nigh!

Tea: chilli con carne and rice. Getting more difficult to get the rice down my throat these days.

Entertainment: PM.

The Nazi programme: S7 E1 Barbarossa.

Taggart S3 E1,2,3 "The killing philosophy".

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear sky, sunny. Cold. Currently 1 degree ('feels like' -2) with a high of 5 expected. Barometer up to 1027 mBar.

Sunrise 07:30; Sunset 16:04 GMT

Slept well, woke up feeling more awake than I have for much of this week. That won't last, of course.

Last day of work for a few days. HWMBO and I are off gallivanting for three days next week. Only 6 flights coming up: a 90 minute visit to Dubai, and an afternoon in Warsaw.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start today, but cold with it: -1°C (no “feels like” specified) now, and a high of 4° later. It’ll be slightly milder over the weekend, in the sense of not dipping below freezing. The barometers are ebullient, being up to 1014/1023mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

TMS on.

[NickFitz]

I watched some more of the Netflix Yorkshire Ripper documentary earlier

And then I finished Going Going Gone and therefore the entire Dryco saga. Excellent stuff, and I reckon I’ll read them again some time, as sometimes events or people from earlier in the story appear in a different light in relation to later aspects - quite an achievement really, given that they weren’t even written in order!

Friday tomorrow, and I have to be up early as the plumbers will be turning up to see if the mysterious leak is coming from my flat

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, because I had a voucher for £8 off that was about to expire

[ladymuck]

Quiet day work-wise. Knackering afternoon walking around Terminal 3 looking for self-service wheelchairs. Apparently I walked 4 miles

[NickFitz]

Another week done, and only twelve more working days for me this year!

The afternoon went reasonably well, I thought. There was the minor issue of causing a division-by-zero error in the database, but it was only in the hotfix environment, and that’s what it’s for, really

I’d actually mentioned a few days ago that we’d have to guard against that very thing, but left it on the to-do list as it didn’t happen in local development because of the dummy data we use. The other dev suggested we were at a good point to give the app a try against some real data, so we deployed it and it immediately blew up. Didn’t take me long to fix, though I ended up working an extra half-hour getting the changes deployed. But that was mainly sitting around waiting for builds and stuff to happen, and it was worth spending the time to make sure she’s got something stable to work with when I’m off tomorrow

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold chicken leg, again

It’s quite cloudy out, but not the kind that tend to rain on one and blue sky is visible through a number of gaps

It was a fairly productive morning, and may also be a fairly productive afternoon; we shall see