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[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Big Sainsbury’s of course, where Viz was finally obtained

I also discovered that the meat and veg do, in fact, have roughly the same spatial relationship as they previously had. I think I was confused by the way we had to travel via odd routes when parts were still partitioned off; and the drastic rearrangement of spatial relationships within fruit and veg certainly doesn’t help, particularly if you’re looking for the onions. But on further analysis, the real problems seem to be deeper in the store, where - among many more minor dislocations - the relocation of crisps and nuts, alcohol, and cleaning materials, plus the introduction of ~1.5 aisles primarily dedicated to the lunchtime Meal Deal trade, all sow confusion

The rot goes deeper, though. The tepid food counter closed down some time ago yet tepid food still appeared from somewhere, housed in a warm cabinet near the magazines. That’s moved to the end of the new Meal Deal aisle, whence I got a couple of sweet chilli chicken thighs for lunch. However, in the days of the counter, these would have been carefully placed in a paper/plastic bag, designed to keep everything in. Now, they come in a box of the kind designed more for doughnuts or cream cakes; and as a result, leak fatty juices all over your shopping

Anyway, now I’ve cleaned the shopping and bag that were thus contaminated, I suppose I should eat them while they’re still tepid

[xoggoth]

Off to local show soon for tea and cake with much younger lady.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

it’s a partly sunny, partly wispy day. Likely to get cloudier later though. Mild for the time of year, I think, though who knows what normal weather is nowadays: currently 16°C and aiming for 20°, with the barometers up a touch at 1007/1014mB

I slept well, possibly assisted by having changed the bed yesterday, which included switching to the two-thirds duvet. I also closed the big bedroom window, as once again it was getting very windy after nightfall and more cold air was coming in than I wanted. So I was a bit warmer than the last few nights, when I wasn’t actually cold but was on the cusp

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with that pebbly-looking fluff. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer steady at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:31; Sunset 19:25 BST

My brother is coming back about lunchtime. The bed has been stripped and is airing. Mum's bed was done yesterday. My bed at home was stripped before I left, so I'll be making that when I get home. That'll be three beds made in two days! I would get a job as a chambermaid but I think my output would need to be much higher.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

Light rain overnight, but dry this morning. The walk started warmer than yesterday, 05:40 it was 13C

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Damp.

Blue sky.

Misty.

Sunny.

19 deg in here, 19.8 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 14.5 out the back.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 13:35 and 15:34, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, scruff and WTFH popped in.

Entertainment: Old Country with Jack Hargreaves: mostly a driving trial with Joe the pony and a cart. Cast iron fire insurance plaque.

Woke at 03:50 again & read book until returning to the land of nod. Curiously the dream before waking involved working in septicland and receiving a parcel (which had been opened) that contained a pcb I'd designed somewhere else. Very odd. I wonder if it conflated the closing of the place I worked from 94 to 97, my Jonah effect finally confining that place to history. WTF I was doing in septicland is anyone's guess.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath, 3 miles) walked in the greyish gloom of the morning. Took umbrella just in case.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme. Pellagra for the win!

Dashcam bollox.

Alaska Homestead thing: part II of The Tyre House.

[NickFitz]

In Dawn, Lilith has been stuck with the job of deciding which humans to awake from suspended animation to form the first group to be sent back to Earth, and is very much aware that one of the major problems she faces is that many people are arseholes

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been an M&S Tomapork, which is their fancy name for a very large pork chop, with chips and beans

Accompanying this, the second part of 24 Hours in Police Custody

[xoggoth]

No Mahjong this morning as only me and one lady turned up. After walky and boring shopping ran me old lady neighbour to the doctors. Didn't realise she is almost 90, she seems very with it mentally.

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

We spent the last hour in a meeting about setting up SLOs. The SLO guys were initially talking about tradeoffs between new features and reliability, until we pointed out that this thing is going into maintenance mode at the end of the month and is definitely not getting any new features before then. So it all just devolved into setting up some monitoring so somebody gets alerted if it starts running really slowly

It did make me realise, though, that we haven’t got anything set up to notify us if it just dies. Up to now, we've relied on the fact that the users would send us a message on Teams saying “Why is it dead?”

But strictly speaking, it’s other people’s responsibility to notice that level of infrastructure failure and sort it out. They get paid to be hassled by PagerDuty; I don't

It did remind me of the fact that the BBC iPlayer people have, or had a few years ago, a thing that alerted them if iPlayer mentions on Twitter suddenly increased, as that usually meant it had fallen over

[sadkingbilly]

lunch was TTD prawns with sundried tomatos and basil pesto.
accompanied by little feat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHcGkGdiEHc

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover chicken in red wine sauce

I spent most of the morning updating the documentation on getting PyCharm working with the new remote development environments, because somebody else has apparently been struggling with it and the people who are running the transition don’t know how to do it as most people use VS Code. I don’t often make detailed notes of this kind of thing but I had this time, as I figured this situation might arise. So I got it all written up and even included screenshots of every step, adorned with bright pink arrows pointing at the various bits one has to click and so on

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^ dementia is SH1TE!!
had to watch <helplessly, it felt> my partner's mother deteriorate.
you have all my sympathy.
my worst nightmare, and one reason i haven't retired completely.
pottered in the garden today. topped up lily pond with 2.5 barrels <about 1/2 tonne> of stored rainwater and generally tidied up here and there.
now for lunch.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another sunny start to the day with occasional wisps here and there. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Once again, cloud cover set to increase later in the day. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:30; Sunset 19:28 BST

It sounds mean but I am very much looking forward to going home tomorrow. My Mum's behaviour is much more challenging than my last stay just a couple of months ago. It's hard to tell if she's just being wilful or if she genuinely has no memory of how to do some simple tasks.

[WTFH]

Morning all
8C at 5:40 this morning, but I still went out in short sleeves. All was good until we walked along a path where the temperature dropped. Tomorrow may be the start of long sleeves for walks.