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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

Yesterday HWMBO and I went to the cinema to watch Deadpool and Wolverine. Dunno what all those 1 star reviewers were expecting. It was never going to be an art house, Cannes winning film. We thought it was silly and entertaining and good fun.

This morning we went to the farmers' market. Fewer stalls today but we still picked up some nice things.

The bed has been stripped and the first load is in the WM.

Now watching some synchronised diving as we won a bronze medal earlier this morning. While waiting for it to come on, we watched a bit of badminton which was quite exciting.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Another dream about failing exams. Ho hum. This one even included the fact that I've given all the maths books to Oxfam so couldn't look anything up. .

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cloudy.

Cool in here at 19.8 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.43 Torr, 14.627 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th/26th of October 2019 there was much discussion of BTVS, "The Edge" (as viewed by NF & me), "The Wire", with "Looper" thrown in for good measure. Comestibles included M&S battered chunky haddock.

Raining now.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

A bottle of Laphroaig for a mere £26, who'd have thunk?

[NickFitz]

The Olympics Opening Ceremony turned out to be crap, so I abandoned it. I think even the French will have to admit that they failed miserably with that

Tonight's motion picture premiere was Dumb Money (2023), based on the strange but true story of a bunch of Redditors boosting a stock until it created such a short squeeze on major hedge funds that Big Money did all kinds of illegal tulip to stop it (and, of course, got away with it because USA). Quite an entertaining story, and the chap who started it all has recently popped up again, so maybe there's more market-shaking fun to come

Next, a rewatch of Bombshell (2019) and, that having triggered Charlize Theron mode, a rewatch of Atomic Blonde (2017)

And finally, a further episode of S4 of The Wire.

Nice gibbous moon earlier - orange as it rose behind the trees and clouds across the way, and silvery as it rose higher

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Harissa Lamb Tagine (Sainsbury's pre-digested range) with chunky chips and peas. Very nice, though another where I'm tempted to find a recipe and make it myself next time

To accompany this, the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Just seems to be a lot of foreigners in boats so far

[NickFitz]

Finished the week by finding a bug in another team's code, which has been there without them noticing since March

Unfortunately, it's also my problem as it's in data they send to another service, and my thing gets in the middle and converts that data into a different form suitable for sending to yet another service. So if they send invalid data, my thing falls over and gets the blame

I'm waiting until Monday to raise it with them. Either they fix it, or my thing has to accommodate their bug in some way. I think we'll easily win any argument over which it'll be, as we can just point to where their data is ending up and show that it's having additional consequences there, which they would have noticed if they monitored their stuff as they're supposed to

But for now: let the weekend commence!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

While I was preparing those, four magpies showed up on the lawn, which is quite unusual - they usually come in couples or singly. Initially it looked like the two pairs were going to ignore each other and get on with pecking whatever it is they peck down there, but before long the situation had degenerated into territorial chivvying, until in the end the bigger ones chased the slightly smaller ones away

[xoggoth]

UEFA Football Championship, Wimbledon and now bleedin' Olympics. Boring! Think I'll migrate to Brazil, summit worth watching there.

Miss Bumbum - Wikipedia

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy with some sun trying to poke through. Dry. Currently 22 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer up a snifter to 1011 mBar.

Hung over this morning so having a slow start to the day. HWMBO and I met one of his friends for cocktails and dinner yesterday and had a very marvellous time.

ClientCo have paid my last invoice.

Need to figure out if I can learn enough about Dynamics 365 to spoon it into my CV and blag a BA role.

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc.

Blue skies and pleasant out. A little cool at the start of our walk (12C), but at least I didn't come back dripping in sweat.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Dry.

Cool in here at 20 deg, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 16.4 in the salting house.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Meanwhile on the 25th of October 2019 NF was debating the whys and wherefores of his trip to Brighton for the conference: rail or road, road or rail, with Brillo chipping in on the cost of railfares to & from north Wales.

Cottons in the WM.

Cottons out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in wan sunshine, during which I managed to see the vandalism on the Gnoll Memorial Gates:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/despicable...125633813.html

Presumably the same pikey scum who stole the lead off the keeper's cottage by the fishpond.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: something whittering on about the sea, fishing, etc.

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned: airing upstairs.

Smalls in off the line & airing upstairs.

Cottons requiring the iRon in off the line & airing upstairs.

Entertainment during the above: The Infinite Monkey Cage S22: When the monkeys met the chimps. Jane Goodall.

The Mentalist S2 E17, E18, E19, E20.

Tea: soup etc.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start which is expected to do that thing of turning cloudy this morning, then back to sunny again in the evening. It's 14°C and only expected to reach 21°, which is relatively cool compared to some recent days, while the barometers is about the same at 998/1005mB

Most importantly: Friday!

[NickFitz]

Tonight's only viewing was an old Police Interceptors

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Your comment about the state of the market prompted me to do a quick JobServe search for what I'm doing at the moment (Django). The top result was with the same ClientGov department that I'm currently working with, via the same agency! So either they're looking to replace me, or there's plenty more work to be done and I should be OK to stay on for a while

It's definitely a "stick with it" market if you have a gig

[NickFitz]

Yeh, my boring Sainsburies shop day too. At least they had raspberries this time.

I got some strawberries that look very nice. Might have some of them in a bit