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[NickFitz]

I finished reading Ra tonight. It’s very good; he mentioned on Bluesky that he’s given some thought to rewriting it for “proper” publication as he did with There is No Antimemetics Division, though I suspect he’ll probably work on a new story instead

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt day

Today, I was able to release the stuff I’ve been finishing off (along with adding some new bits we hadn’t realised we needed until very recently) for the last few weeks. This was a bit complicated to deal with as it’s the stuff for getting data from our service into the data warehouse, so I had to make sure the data pipelines worked and then get a different team to approve them before they could be deployed, and also get the stuff that implements the necessary APIs on our end tested and released. But when all that was done, I enabled the pipelines and triggered a manual run of the new ones, and it all worked! So I think that’s safely out of the way and tomorrow will be relatively peaceful, just dealing with security upgrades for various dependencies, and removing some stuff to do with an external service that’s being decommissioned at the end of the month

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Quite a good one for your Monday Links Fizzy Knickers.

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Cheers xog!

[NickFitz]

Watch out for marauding grizzlies whilst you're at it. Can't be too careful these days..

I didn’t bother going in the end as it was too hot. They want to repeat one of the blood tests too and the earliest appointment they could give me for that was in August, so I now assume it isn’t that urgent

[ladymuck]

First episode of the new series of The Piano watched.

Apparently there's some form of association football on.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been an experimental pork and cider hot pot. Turned out very well, that did

And a bit of Police Interceptors to go with it

[xoggoth]

Quite a good one for your Monday Links Fizzy Knickers.

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[xoggoth]

Local history group coffee meet this morning. Bit sparse as location probably rather to far for some. One lady dun alf yack, hard to get a word in. Scrabble with old neighbour soon. Oh for the old days when meeting up with ladies was sometimes for more inneresting things.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Clear blue sky out there now

Just remembered I need to go down the surgery for another sample pot. I’ll do that later. At least I now know the pleasant route there and back through the “wild” bit of the park

Watch out for marauding grizzlies whilst you're at it. Can't be too careful these days..

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Clear blue sky out there now

Just remembered I need to go down the surgery for another sample pot. I’ll do that later. At least I now know the pleasant route there and back through the “wild” bit of the park

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:02; Sunset 21:12 BST

Slept very well but still woke with a headache, so I opted to have more sleep rather than get up at silly o'clock to go into the office.

Managed to miss a sprint planning meeting because the meeting invite has no reminder set. I checked the series to make sure I wasn't being an idiot. I had, however, already filled in my part of the slide deck with my focus for the next two weeks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Warm in here at 24.1 deg, 25.7 deg in the kitchen (damn that mercury thread is fine & hard to read), 24 in the leanto, 24 out the back.

1015.5 mBar, 29.987 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (up from 1014 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Anonimouse, Brillo, covbob, and eek popped in.

Trip down to that Swansea: missed the X7 by 15 seconds so ended up on the 34. Pile of books donated to Oxfam & only brought one back, which was good. X7 back.

I'm tempted to dispose of the PKD collection next time since I'm very unlikely to read any of them again, tastes having changed.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 thing about fertility & suchlike.

Classic Movies: "Escape from New York (1981)". There was a remarkable dearth of ads during that, they seem to have saved them all up for assorted trails & suchlike after it had finished.

Dozed through "DSOTM" on "Pulse" again, having felt the need after the morning's exertions in the heat.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. Sea fishing contest in Ireland. Something else I've forgotten: gardening: sweet peas.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. UFO bollox on Blaze.

Dan Do. Anglesey. Caernarfon (some actor chap). Cardiff.

Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves. Breeding a coney dog. Fishing for eels in a [s]hovercraft[/] millpond.

Bab5 S2 E5 "The long dark": the one about the sleeper ship.

More nuke stuff on PBS.

"Greetings from Scotland": the birth of the Scottish Tourist Board. John Poulson has just made an appearance. No good will come of this. .

Blaze: Britain's X Files: The Comet. Or why one should make windows with round corners rather than square. . Has anyone mentioned this to RyanScare? Askin' for a friend.

[sadkingbilly]

'spraying the roof'? is this a new AC cooling attempt?

[WTFH]

Morning all
Clouds on the horizon earlier, but CBS now.
The builders are currently spraying the roof, which means we have to keep the windows closed. It's getting quite warm in the house.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another grey start like yesterday and, like yesterday, expected to brighten up soon. I think it’s also less windy but there’s still a bit of a breeze, so the current 16°C “feels like” 13°; the predicted high of 27° is the highest for the next ten days, though it’ll still hover around the mid-20s. The barometers are up a little at 1014/1022mB

I’m not feeling as rough as I did yesterday but I’m still not 100%. Also feel pretty tired and keep yawning, probably as a result of two nights of suboptimal sleep

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork chow mein

And to go with it, Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea on Netflix, about the Costa Concordia. The captain isn’t coming out of it very well

The soup has been divvied up. Not sure how I’ll squeeze it into the freezer TBH. I suppose I’ll just have to eat more of the stuff that’s already in there