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[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Couple of big meetings this afternoon, of the kind where one just sits and listens. One of them was the developer hour, in which one of the devs I’ve never worked with talked about various problems they’d had with tech debt. She turns out to be a bit manic and very funny, peppering her talk with swear words in an entertainingly unprofessional manner

I also liked her succinct observation that “We shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but we do and now we’ve all got six wheels that look a bit weird”

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a couple of cold southern not-fried drumsticks

Still CBS here

Peaceful day as far as work is concerned, as almost everybody has gone to London for a quarterly planning session. So I’ve been able to quietly research some stuff I’m planning to implement without being interrupted by meetings or questions

[xoggoth]

Yeh. Blue again here. Off to Mahjongy thing soon, after I drop off laminated posters to history group lady. Nowt else on today except dump and shopping. How exciting.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky, not a wisp to be seen. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:38; Sunset 17:49 GMT

Laundry will be the main non-billing task of the day. If I get it on early enough, it'll be worth putting it out in the garden for a while in the sunshine.

[WTFH]

Morning all
No dog to walk this morning.VW Up! rental car from Avis parked outside. Flight was fairly uneventful although a bit choppy in the last couple of minutes until we landed.
Grey and miserable outside.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday judging by the racket of the Recycling Engineers out on the road.

Dry.

Blue sky in parts.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.795 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Bedding out on the line.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked as it picked with rain.

Returned just in time to stick it all in the TD as the rain began in ernest.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment?: thing on R4 about pain FFS. Noon o'clock news. The bottom line. <click>

Looked at the gravestone in the cemetery: it wasn't for the woman referred to in the thing watched by NF, rather it was some poor 18 year old strangled in her flat in 1998.

Bed remade: no beginner's error there then. .

Still raining. Not much water out of the TD so that was good.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Tea: beans on toast. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Apparently the Orange Moron has decided that said Orange Moron will decide the New Glorious Leader of Iran. . <click>.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start here, and it’s going to be a warm one: only 7°C now, but a whole 16° expected this afternoon, albeit briefly! The barometers seem pessimistic though, being down to 1004/1012mB, and tomorrow may be rainy and won’t be as warm

As I forgot to sign off last night, mainly due to more email back-and-forth about Irish citizenship, let me here record that I finished This Is How You Lose the Time War. A strange but enjoyable book

[NickFitz]

I’d put some belly pork on to cook slowly under foil this afternoon, with the idea of making pork chow mein. But then I got involved in a long email chain with my siblings about stuff to do with Irish passports immediately after work, so in the end I just took the foil off, seasoned it a bit and whacked the heat up to brown it, then made chips and beans to go with it

This was accompanied by another episode of the motorway cops thing

[NickFitz]

Turning cloudy here now

I got mildly confused this afternoon after sprint planning, thinking for some reason that it was Tuesday. I made myself a cup of coffee and just as it was ready, Teams started pinging with messages. Turned out it’s Wednesday and the weekly “huddle” for all digital people had just started! This worked out well, because I always make a coffee to have while I listen to that

And once that was done, I did an online Health & Safety course, thereby completing the mandatory training that I’ve been failing to renew for, I think, three years now. I believe there’s been pressure from the Cabinet Office so they’ve been chasing everybody about getting it done for the last few weeks

[ladymuck]

^^ WNFS

The day has considerably brightened up, and it's quite pleasant in the sunshine, but the cloud base is still very low.

[NickFitz]

This week I knitted a prime factors jumper. Basically each prime has a different colour (the light blue background is 1, which is a factor of everything) and the other numbers are represented by multiplying the primes. Quite pleased with it. Fits approx 2 year old who will be far too young to understand the maths, but my patience/arthritic knuckles didn't feel up to a bigger one!

Excellent!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bacon butty

Sunny here now

My lower back has been grumbling this week, but it seems a touch better today

[DoctorStrangelove]

My maths isn't up to it either.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Sunny. .

Dry.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 13 something in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto, 8 in the saltinghouse.

1019.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 764.7 Torr, 14.786 psi, (down from 1021 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of March 2020 covbob, Brillo, and LM popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about fake self employment.

Shirts in off the line & duly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Entertainment: TWATO with much about the Fugging Egyptian Grocer & his vile brother. Followed by a thing about Evelyn Waugh and "Black Mischief" which, it transpires, I have on a bookshelf across the room though I've never read it (two copies of course as is only rite & proper, like). Must get around to reading the Crouchback "Sword of Honour" trilogy, this being the one I recall listening to on the wireless some half century ago though bits of it were televised a couple of decades ago (2001 as it happens, with that Daniel Craig chap: good script but poor direction apparently).

Blue sky from horizon to horizon. Very sunny. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the warm sunshine. Two layers fewer & I was still warm, too warm by the end.

On NF's Neath murder thing: I meant to have a look in the cemetery this afternoon & completely forgot, there being a murder stone which may be that of the unfortunate young lady NF spoke of yesterday.

I recall a previous murder, the murderer in question nearly ran me over in 1990(ish) when he was attempting to get rid of her not quite dead yet body in the res up the hill.

He'd clouted her with a hammer & stuffed her in the boot of his car, which had a broken windscreen, this being what I recognized on the tv news the next day when he was cornered by the plod.

Aside from nearly running me over, he drove nearly 1000 miles up & down the M4, turned up the stereo to hide her moans from the boot, and gave someone a lift to Bristol with her still in the boot.

He'd almost served his time then hanged himself in clink 6 weeks before his release date. Apparently he was upset at the death of his father and the death by overdose of a lady friend.

Could have saved us 13 years of keeping the oxygen thief alive if he'd done it a bit sooner.

Now outside a cup of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Tea: Tesco breaded? battered? cod?: nice enough.

Everything in off the line & the last of it is in the TD to finish off.

Entertainment: PM. Disgusting septic heavy metal rock while they kill people. Fecking animals. The sooner that bunch are behind bars the better. Or underground. Especially that Orange Mother****er.

Scotland Yard: "the mail van murder (1957)". Revenge: best served cold: dig two graves, or in this case: three..

Alice Roberts: Hospital through time: aortic replacement: 10 hours op. Stone me. Nice leeches. This is not stunningly inneresting.

The Bad Skin Clinic: chap with eczema. He's not coping well with the treatment then she gees him up & it gets much better. Chap with a zit on his neck and on his nads: folicular occlusion: HS: the one on his neck: epidermoid cyst. Oh dear: has to stop smoking, which is proving difficult. . Elderly lady covered in red spots: reactive perforating collagenosis.

Elementary S1 E16 "Details"

Science Fiction thing on Sky Arts: John Wyndham through P.K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs (this last merely for the title of "Blade Runner").

I was tempted to mow the lawn today but I resisted. Chap next door but two was busily mowing his: the mower sounded like there were bricks hiding in the grass.

[mudskipper]

This week I knitted a prime factors jumper. Basically each prime has a different colour (the light blue background is 1, which is a factor of everything) and the other numbers are represented by multiplying the primes. Quite pleased with it. Fits approx 2 year old who will be far too young to understand the maths, but my patience/arthritic knuckles didn't feel up to a bigger one!

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, and a chilly 5C on our walk earlier. A little mist in the valleys and a lot of dew on the grass. Looks like a pleasant day. Off to the airport later to go visit my dad.