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[xoggoth]

Went into Poundland today and an aisle was full of Christmas stuff! Gets earlier every year.

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken madras with rice and naan

This was accompanied by a bit of the fare dodgers, for want of motivation to watch anything more cerebral

Earlier, though, I did some more mucking around with SwiftUI and RealityKit

And I've just put the mundane laundry on, this time using the "QuickPower" programme that claims to achieve washing and drying in less time. We shall see how it does

[WTFH]

Just discovered that one of my upcoming flights is in a Club Suite, this will be my first time trying it out. A bit disappointed that the second sector is in a plane that hasn't been upgraded to Q Suites, but the service will be just as good.

[NickFitz]

Weekend!

The stakeholders came up with one of those "minor" details that hadn't previously been mentioned about the stuff we're working on which I thought could be a bit tricky. But then I worked out a way of doing it that was very straightforward and elegant, so that was pleasing

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. I won again. Walky and boring shopping soon followed by equally boring preparation of rubbish for trip to the dump tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It's sunny and rather Simpsonesque out now, but it's getting a bit breezy

This morning was mainly devoted to tedious upgrades, as expected. There's a meeting with "stakeholders" in a while, after which we should be able to get back to the interesting stuff

I must admit, the term "stakeholders" always makes me think back to working on Ubisoft's "Night Hunter" in which you played Dracula and Professor Van Helsing would appear once you'd collected all the treasures, chasing you around and throwing stakes at you as you tried to make it to the exit to the next level

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It was a cloudy start but has brightened up since. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 1029 mBar.

Sunrise 07:09; Sunset 19:08 BST

Tired today. Took a while to get myself motivated enough to get up.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.8 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

1022.5 mBar, 30.19 in Hg, 766.9 Torr, 14.83 psi, (up from 1022 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 there was discussion of the 2020 CUK meetup . Talk about tempting providence. . BR14 was watching the decimation in Midsummer Murders, whilst I was watching ST:V: the one where the WWWC talks to "god", while eek relieved LM of the burden of said Xmas do, and LM celebrated with free wine when the wine bar's electric card reader thing didn't work.

Damn thing logged me out this morning.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Took a while to get up to speed for some reason.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Bottom Line (calm down xogg) waffling on about e business startups. TWATO with that Davis chap waffling on about something.

4 lawns mown. Knackered now & bathed in sweat. Glad I don't have to do the idle git's lawns any more. You can't mow them: they'd required strimming/brush cutting before you could even start.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: PM.

More than might be said of the Idiot Lantern since there's feckall on that I've found on the EPG.

Timeshift: The Trains that time forgot (2015).

The proof is out there: giant goldfish (cross bred carp). More bollox. Well it is Blaze innit?

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, and not as cool as the last couple of days.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, albeit with cloud about. Should get sunnier later, though. It's 9°C and soaring to 17° later, which seems quite decent for autumn; the barometers are down a touch at 1016/1024mB

Thursday!

I think I'll go shopping tomorrow morning, but I'm not sure; I may go this evening instead

[NickFitz]

Tonight I finished A for Andromeda, in which it transpired that whatever sent us the message may not have had our best interests at heart, or was at least likely to prioritise its own agenda

Next up: Andromeda Breakthrough (which the back cover mistakenly prefixes with The)

Thursday tomorrow!

Unfortunately, it's "tech debt" Thursday, when the various project teams in our subsection are supposed to put their work on hold and come together to deal with the kind of stuff that gets put off otherwise: security updates to dependencies, version upgrades for libraries and frameworks, and boring stuff like that. Shame, as we've made excellent progress on our stuff this week and it would be good to get it wrapped up. But with luck, there won't be much tech debt to deal with and we can get back to it later in the day

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been battered cod with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the remainder of the motorbike cops thing from yesterday

[WTFH]

Currently watching the latest Travelling Turtle which "dropped" (as the young people say) yesterday.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been salt & chilli chicken thigh fillet in a wholemeal bap, with a bag of plain crisps

There was a bit of sunshine earlier but now there's big clouds with little gaps, so only a glimmer now and then. There's even been a few spots of rain, but that seems to have given up

One of the flats in the adjacent block is being vacated this week - they had a Transit van (hired or maybe borrowed, I assume) here over the weekend, including parking down there at night, and the last couple of days have seen a box van coming, loading, and going. I reckon it's the people who had a lot of guitars on view in their estate agent photos

Anyway, this inspired me to have a look on Rightmove and there are six flats up for sale at the moment: three of them in that block, two in the block opposite, and the one downstairs and across the hall in our block that went on the market a couple of months ago. I think that's the most to have been on sale simultaneously since I moved here!

One of them is the old lady on the ground floor opposite, who has the paper delivered around half-seven each morning and a delivery from Wiltshire Farm Foods every week. They're still coming and there are lights on of an evening, so at least she hasn't popped her clogs

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another sunny start to the day. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 26 expected. It is likely to cloud over as the day progresses with a slight chance of a shower mid-afternoon. Barometer steady at 1031 mBar.

Sunrise 07:07; Sunset 19:11 BST

That's 4 minutes of daylight less than yesterday . Looking at the times down at home, it's shifted 16 minutes earlier there (06:51 / 18:55). Oh the joys of latitude!

Feeling pensive today. Not sure why.