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[NickFitz]

Tea, eventually, has been a beef curry with rice and (just the one) mini naan. Turned out very nice in the end, and the additional half hour or so of vigorous boiling didn't seem to have done it any harm

[NickFitz]

I tried to make dinner in the InstantPot™ and, once it was heating up, left it to its devices. I had a quick glance now and again, and the time was counting down and everything seemed fine

Returning to the kitchen a few minutes before it was due to finish, I realised that the pressure valve had never popped up! So it hadn't been pressure cooking at all, just boiling the stuff

So I took the lid off and played with the valve, which seemed fine, and put the lid back on and stood there waiting while it heated up again. Except the boiling had reduced the liquid too much, so it started sticking to the base of the pan which triggered the sensor that stops it if that happens, so it doesn't burn

And so I added more water, and stirred and scraped until all the stuck stuff was off the bottom, and now it's finally heated back up and come up to pressure, and dinner will be about an hour late

At least I now know that it doesn't actually use a pressure sensor. Apparently, it starts the countdown based on the temperature it's got to and (I think) how long it's been at it for, as that should normally correlate with it having reached the pressure that forces the valve shut

[NickFitz]

Another day done! Despite meetings, I managed to get stuff done to the extent that I'll be demoing it in the fortnightly Show & Tell tomorrow

As I managed to keep my commit history fairly well structured and with meaningful comments, I've just checked and I'll be able to checkout a specific commit and demo how the UI for this bit of the app used to work (clunky), then checkout the latest version and show how it now works (elegant)

[NickFitz]

Roast pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal) for lunch

Still mainly cloudy out, but there have been sunny spells. The wind isn't as strong as it was, but it still seems quite breezy

Such deliveries as I was expecting today have arrived, so I can stop fretting over them and get some work done… oh wait, there are several meetings this afternoon

[covbob]

Morning denizens.

Grey, overcast, drizzly. Not the sort of day to inspire energy and drive.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Calm.

Cool in here at 18 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 14 in the saltinghouse.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of February 2020 there was much discussion of food from NF and BR14, LM popped in: apparently HWMBO had seen blue sky at one point, Doctor Who was mediocre, Endeavour was better (the rivers of blood one), and Homeland seems to have reappeared as a thing, though memories of same were dim due to the two years between seasons.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Entertainment: Infinite Monkey Cage: building an athlete again for some reason. Listened to that last time but couldn't be arsed to change it.

Shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs. So far, despite the forecast, it's been ok.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y on buy to let.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. I had to reach far back on the shelf to get the stuff I wanted, which wasn't half a cwt of dried cranberries.

Entertainment: Am Dro: Cardigan bay, Llyn peninsula, Pontypridd, Craig y Nos, Swansea valley: where Dame Adelina Patti lived long long ago. She had her very own railway station: I knew the chap who removed her very ornate lavatory when the line closed back in the 1960s. The woman whose walk that was is in Dexy's Midnight Runners: the classical viola player.

Pillowslips in off the line & roughly iRoned: now airing upstairs (needfully doing since still a bit damp).

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Dial 999: the canal barge escape route one.

The mind of Mr J G Reeder: The Green Mamba. The snake makes a brief appearance.

Skin A&E: the Birmingham one.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 11) with a high of 18 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:38; Sunset 19:13 BST

Many meetings today. Some of them I actually have to participate in.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Blue skies and sunshine earlier, but a rather chilly 13C.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

grey start again out there and still very breezy, though the wind isn't as strong as it was. It'll try to be slightly warmer for the next few days, but may be foiled by the wind chill: our current 12°C "feels like" 5°, so presumably we won't feel the full benefit of the expected high of 18°. The barometers are up at 1001/1009mB

FedEx are bringing a delivery to me today, expected between 08:10 and 12:10. Shame they couldn't be bothered to put a map or something on their website so I have at least a rough idea of when it'll actually be; even a vague "delivering #23, you're #38" is better than nothing

[NickFitz]

I ended up wandering around on StreetView for a while, looking at some of the places in the tsunami programme as they were a few months later and as they are now

And another Rumpole story has been read

There's been rainy spells today, and it still seems to be very windy out

Getting to sleep now in the hope the lurgy will have gone away tomorrow, or at least eased up a bit

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce, with potatoes roasted in duck fat with Cajun seasoning, and peas

I'd forgotten I'd had the chicken and red wine the other day too, so that was the last bit out of the freezer. Oh well, it's nice; I'll just have to make some more

And to watch, Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera on C4

[NickFitz]

Not a bad afternoon in the end - I was left to my own devices, and the thing I was working on proved to be nice and simple to deal with

I've knocked off early because to complete it, I need to pick my colleague's brains about how some stuff works, and she said she was finishing early so could we look at it tomorrow

[ladymuck]

My accountant merged with another company a while ago and, in my usual manner, I did my accounts within a couple of weeks of year end. The new outfit has a 'client portal' for the secure upload of documents, etc. So I uploaded all the bank statements and trial balance.

About 10 days after I did that, some chap from the new company emailed me to say I needed to submit all my year end files. I replied that I had already done it. Three weeks, and three nudges, later I still haven't had a response to that initial reply.

Something tells me I'm not going to be sticking with this new accountancy firm for long if that's how things are going to run.

[xoggoth]

Group walk recce with 3 others and a stop at nice cafe by the reservoir. V rough water due to wind, looked like the sea. Then lunch at son's. Now back to f*** accounts!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Heinz chicken soup and white toast

I'm hoping its healing properties will help tide me over for the afternoon. Luckily there aren't any meetings, unless they've gone and scheduled any while I was eating