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[NickFitz]

Another day done, and as soon as I was finished I got a wholemeal loaf going in the bread maker. It takes five hours, so it always feels too late to start if I leave it much past 17:00

The people who are in charge of the data reckon there’s no need for my cunning plan to fix it, on the grounds that the people who work with it have been advised to fix their own bits manually and if they don’t, it can’t be that important. Fair enough

So that left me in peace to work on my solution to the problem. In fact, I ended up spending more time working out how to test it, as testing Celery tasks turns out not to be as straightforward as testing normal things. I might ditch that for now in favour of just getting the fix deployed, as I know it works from manual testing and they also want to do that, so they aren’t worrying about it at the end of the month

[sadkingbilly]

hello again

sun's just come out here
another tough morning at the office.

just installed a local AI to check what all the fuss is about.
none of the models knows much about Zsystems though *

ah, well, I won't be joining the sad sacks in SotM thread anytime soon.

*wrote me a win11 jukebox app in 5 goes <> 30 mins though, and it works

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

It’s turned quite Simpsonesque out now, rather then the unremitting cloudiness that the forecast seemed to be predicting earlier

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wispy bits here and there. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:21 BST

Lots of meetings this afternoon across all three gigs. This morning I have space for doing time.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Drizzly.

Misty.

19.7 in here, 20.25 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 LM, xogg, and I popped in, and Brillo popped in a lot.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. 2 conversations & a greeting.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about meja bans.

Blaze: Outback Wreckers. Stone me some of those cars were rusty. .

Mix: Oz customs thing S17: fines seem to have increased a bit: 3700AuD for bringing in undeclared meats. The usual Chinese obsession with stuffing suitcases with inedible crap thusly leading to the $3700 fines. The most mysterious was the two who flew from Norway with the contents of their fridge in a suitcase. Another $3700 fine: salami. They're not taking prisoners on this these days. Also the "tea" from Thailand which turned out to be $6M of H. The "clock" from Switzerland which turned out to have a "clockface" made from MDMA: all $600k of it. Haven't watched one of these for years, this one was quite good apart from the lack of frog fat & the inexplicable transport of the defrosted contents of a fridge all the way to Oz. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
Looked like we were going to have a storm at 5:30, but none of the weather apps said there was any rain out there, so I went out without a jacket.
A very pleasant walk was had in the dry, the sky is looking less ominous now.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day and likely to remain so, with a bit of a breeze expected too. But it’s starting to warm up: already at 15°C, it’s expected to reach 23° this afternoon, with temperatures reaching the mid-20s for the rest of this week and potentially hitting the 30s towards the end of the next. The barometers aren’t keen though, being down to 1001/1009mB, which may be why we have a 40% chance of rain that is otherwise unexplained

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was E5 of Legends in which plots are thickening, tensions are rising, and dominoes are starting to fall

In Future Noir, the films has been released… and flopped rather badly. But it rapidly grew a cult following, becoming inordinately successful on VHS and laserdisc. Then they found a bunch of stuff that had been lost and cobbled together the “Director’s Cut” and there was also a lot of debate about whether Deckard is a replicant or not. And the saga continues…

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein, a recipe I am still far from perfecting. But it was OK

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday done

Quite a productive day in parts. I tried a solution to the concurrency problem, and it worked OK in my test script. So then I dug around the web and found that yes, it seems to be a valid solution to the problem; so once I’ve checked a few more things, I should be good to go ahead. And I worked out a way we can fix the data that got screwed up, or at least I think we can - I need to investigate that some more

Meanwhile on the lawn, a gull decided to visit while I was in the kitchen getting a cup of coffee this afternoon. A squirrel that was browsing around down there seemed too freaked out even to run as the huge bird slowly swooped down towards it, but it just landed a couple of feet away and started ambling about, completely ignoring the squirrel. One of the young magpies was down there and cleared off sharpish, circling round high up for a bit as the gull wandered around inspecting the place, before finally coming back and settling in the tree in the middle. The youngsters have been getting a bit cheeky lately, chasing pigeons away from the flowerbed and even swooping at one of the blackbirds the other evening. But the arrival of this huge bird, four or five times their size, seemed to give them pause for thought and they stayed well clear

As usual, the gull wandered about for a bit then flew off. I think they just get mildly curious about the place and drop in for a look around

[NickFitz]

A few bits of leftover lamb shish for lunch

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Shed built, just need to do the finishing touches.

Been spending hours repairing my shed which had rotted in one corner. Hadn't noticed water was leaking in as behind shelving.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning happy campers
Sunrise 04:29 Sunset 21:33
CBS this morning, but still a little protestant out.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with occasional gaps. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. A light shower may occur mid-morning. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:20 BST

Hmm... suspicious that my sunrise/sunset times are the same as yesterday. A quick look at timeanddate.com suggests different times for London. I am assuming that 'London' is Trafalgar Square but, even so, that doesn't account for the difference.

I woke a good hour before my alarm this morning. Dozed off and woke again when my alarm went off. Then Kier Starmer's droning voice making that announcement about banning social media put me into some kind of soporific state where I kept thinking I might be awake but I wasn't really.