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[NickFitz]

For tea, I had some lamb mince that Needed to be Eaten™ but I couldn’t be bothered dealing with anything too complicated. So I fried it up with some onions and garlic, mixed together various spices, and made a quick curry. A few dollops of that with chips; sorted

I didn’t quite get the balance right in the spice mix so the flavour wasn’t perfect, but it was perfectly adequate for a Wednesday evening

Turned nice again here, after a gloomy and often rainy day with occasional rumblings of thunder

[ladymuck]

My weather app kept telling me it was drizzling but all I saw was lovely sunshine and fluffy blobs. A nice walk at lunchtime was had.

However, as the train home reached London Bridge, the skies were far less friendly and then it rained. It must have also been raining in Farringdon where I changed to the Lizzy Line as there were soggy people about.

By the time I got to my stop, it was glorious sunshine again. Although there were signs of earlier precipitation.

Perfectly dodged me thinks.

Much gossip at clientCo, which was the main reason for going in. Went to the pub post work for a swift drink to bitch about various people in safety.

I drew Argentina in the office world cup sweepstake.

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^^^^^^^ the joys of forensic fault analysis.
finding it's the first BIG step to fixing it

afternoon all
greetings from the rabbit warren of Z/systems.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold sausage bap (wholemeal) with red sauce

It’s turned gloomy here and been raining quite a bit

Down on the lawn, the bossy crow was wandering around just now, with the male magpie shadowing it a few yards away. The crow tried to assert its dominance by turning and walking a couple of feet towards it, whereat the magpie nonchalantly moved away, maintaining the distance between them but clearly not backing down. So the crow turned round again and decided to act as if the magpie wasn’t there, while the magpie continued to shadow it while acting as if it was just coincidence that they happened to be in the same area of the lawn

At ClientGov, this morning was Show & Tell, and I initially thought there wasn’t much of either I could do. But then I suggested I could talk a bit about the upload bug hunt of the last couple of days, though I knew I couldn’t get too technical as this was mainly people on the management side, most of the devs being at the AwayDay. So I opened various tabs showing the S3 bucket and CloudWatch logs, and filtered the views down to the relevant stuff, and when my turn came I told them how various figures had been corrupted, then took them through the trail I’d followed: here’s the three files uploaded in eight seconds, here’s the background tasks executing, and so on. And they loved it! High praise from all sides, both for my telling of the story and for my persistence in tracking down all these different clues and putting them together. I guess people love a detective story

But with that done, I’ve now got to go and work out how to fix the damn bug. Ho hum

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Blue sky in parts.

Wanly sunny.

18.3 deg in here, 19.5 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.9 Torr, 14.656 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, LM, NF, vetran, xogg, and WTFH popped in.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Spotting with rain for the final half mile or so. Nice chat with a chap I meet now & again: he's an ex marine.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y <click> The butterfly thing. Pearl bordered fritillary. We don't appear to have those around here.

Gardening. Strimmed some weeds. Hacked some of the ash trees and the inevitable brambles. The rose I warned about not giving me any flowers duly pruned a bit. Maybe that will gee it up a bit. Reducing the thickness of the front garden privet hedge..

Managed to sharpen my grandfather's shears a bit using his sharpening stone. A less than professional job but they are cutting stuff a bit better.

Entertainment: a thing about PR. Hunter Biden on some MAGA nutjob's podcast where she apologised to him. .

Currently some bollox about Association Football coverage in Canada, Mexico, and SepticLand, this being of less than zero innerest to me.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

The Jack Hargreaves thing Out of Town. Will he kill anything this time?

Bollox on Blaze with wotshisface.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with a few clouds about to make things scenic. Looks like it’ll generally get cloudier though, with rain likely (40-50%) after lunch (assuming I have time for lunch today). It’s 10°C but “feels like” 6°, with the high for the day expected to be 14°, while the barometers are up a little at 1003/1011mB

Today’s the big Tech Awayday event at ClientGov. But the urgency of providing a fix for this data upload problem gives me the perfect excuse not to go means I sadly won’t be able to attend

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
Woke at 4:44, but didn't get up then. Pleasant walk has been had.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Bright, dry, cloudy. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Rain due this afternoon. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:17 BST

At the station waiting for a train. Decided to turn up to gig3 offices for a change.

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir, they’ve managed to assemble a cast and crew, and have built the largest set ever (at the time). All they need to do now is film it!

It doesn’t feel very warm tonight. It’s odd that a room temperature that would have had me turning the heating up a couple of months ago now feels pleasantly cool, but tonight is edging towards chilly

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Old arty farty thing this morning, karaoke this evening. Think mostly free day tomorrow but old neighbour just Whatsapped me about playing Scrabble at her dump.

Got me Windows 11 PC all set up, working great, don't think anything of significance left to do.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken thighs, roasted with a smoky BBQ seasoning, with slightly spicy mini roast spuds, all with lashings of ketchup

Accompanying this, an episode of Forensics: Crash Scene Investigators (which is the one on 5, not the one from BBC Wales)

[NickFitz]

It’s been such a busy day that I didn’t even have time for lunch!

Quite Simpsonesque out, with a cooling breeze which was appreciated just now when I popped round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription, it being that time again

The busyness was due to a never-seen-before bug which has screwed up the figures for this month. Upon investigation, hunting through logs and so on, I was able to ascertain that a few days ago, somebody managed to upload a file containing updates to the data three times within eight seconds, presumably mashing the submit button when nothing happened instantly. These uploads each kicked off a background task, as it takes about six minutes to process the data. It’s limited to two background workers at a time, so the first two started up straight away, the third coming in once one of them had finished. And it seems that the system was never designed to cope with two (or more) instances of this process running in parallel, as it's messed things up royally

I’m reasonably sure that I finally managed to identify the root of the problem, which was a few lines of innocent-looking code written back in 2019. And having worked out the unusual circumstances with which they were intended to cope, I was able to get confirmation from our subject matter experts that such circumstances should never arise, and ought to be treated as an error if they do. But who knows what was said by the experts of seven years ago, long gone by now?

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Currently in the sunny phase of a sunshine and showers type day. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up a smidge to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:17 BST

Busy morning at the gig3 coalface, now kicking off an afternoon at gig2. Only three weeks left there, so I'm making sure I get my hours in to maximise the billing.

[sadkingbilly]

The interviews and other stuff might turn out to be interesting, but I’m not sure I’m too bothered about the 2049 stuff

I sometimes think I should watch it again to see if it grows on one. But then I decide not to, or not yet

I wouldn't bother. it's PISH!! (was on freeview the other night).

Morning all

apparently, 11 years ago, the REAL king billy* bought me a beer in my local bar in Den Haag
doesn't time fly

* Konig Willem-Alexander.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

18.2 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (unchanged), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Anonimouse, Brillo, BR14, LM, NF, scruff, and WTFH popped in, and LM had celeriac soup. I know what soup is, the other I'm not sure about. I wonder if scruff's krugerrands are still in SA.

This morning's waking happened at 02:40ish, and the Second Sleep eventually returned, with waking at something after 08:10.

I suspect I did too much yesterday as the aches & pains are much worse than usual and the lumbar spine is complaining a lot. Thank feck for ibuprofen.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, and a 30 second shower of rain. Bunch of skoolkids walking up the valley on a skool trip as I was walking down. Well it's better than being stuck in a classroom innit?

I really should remember that I'll never see my 60s again: totally & utterly fecked after yesterday's shopping expeditions with the post No Mow May lawn mowing.

Took at least half a mile to get the knots out of my back & persuade the legs to work properly.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the butterfly story: so far she's got to 8, of which the latest two are the very common small white and an equally common speckled brown. Only 52 to go, then, though the green hairstreak should make up for it a bit.

I wonder if they have those lovely tiny blue butterflies in Denmark.

Y&Y was waffling on about first jobs, which took me back: Granada TV Rentals (gone), then Telebank (gone), then 3M Gorseinon (my bit went 30 years ago: all gone now), then Siliconix (gone in 1992), then Styx (gone in 1993), then Alphr (still going as far as I know), then Reten Acoustics (still going, called something else, acquired), then the fraudster guy who ended up in gaol (never paid me, sacked me, never paid his rent or rates to the council), then Industrial Data Products (recently demised), then Applied Visuals (gone after some simulation software they used wasn't available anymore), then Tellermate the money weighing lot (still going: the Llanwern blast furnace is gone too so the atmosphere must be less sulphurous now), then Wolsey Comcare (gone), then Modemetric (gone), then Zirkon (taken over, moved elsewhere), then Modemetric again (gone, owing millions), then Philips Semiconductor (gone), then Scantronic (Cooper Security, now Eaton, never did visit that tool shop in the carpark), then the fruit machine company (gone), then the hair removal lot (moved from the Technium: still going as far as I know), then Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde (moved from Mount Pleasant to down the docks so you could watch the waves in the dock & wonder if the microwaves from the radar on that ship were frying your brain and would anyone notice).

Entertainment: Outback Wreckers. Watchout for those ticks & spiders mate. .

Am Dro. Holyhead. Bala. Three cliffs bay, estate near Dinefwr castle.

Blaze UFO bollox: UFOs and the Septic civil war. Apparently if the north had lost democracy would have been lost from the world. FFS. Complete & utter unbelievable bollox. <click>

Attempted delivery of someone else's Sainsbury order. It's been a while since that happened last. Intended for next door but one. Dunno why that happens. The funniest one was the time the chap started washing the windows with that long pole thing. .

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

"The Fabelmans (2022)" <click> Half an hour of that was more that enough, oy vey.

That May chap waffling on about the demise of the British car industry & the rise of the German & Japan industries: the Allegro as an example of How Not To Do It, with the Vanden Plas version in particular.