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[NickFitz]

Another day done, only eighteen to go!

Quite busy today, though more to do with discussing how to do stuff rather than doing it. Anyway, the other dev has now taken it upon themselves to build a React app

This meant I forgot, and didn’t really have time, to put on the cider-braised belly pork I had planned for dinner. So I’ll have that tomorrow instead

Another Amazon parcel has been delivered yet is nowhere to be found. I shall wait and see if it mysteriously turns up outside my flat at around 9pm, as happened the last couple of times one went astray

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bit of pork pie

Certificate errors here again

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damply dry.

Windy.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 16 in the kitcehn, 13.5 in the leanto.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 LM was wearing bedsocks and was disturbed by a whining noise from elsewhere, BR14 popped in, WTFH remarked that rather than the blue sky expected whilst fetching the logs it was sleeting, NF had a late lunch, and I went down to town on the bus due to The Bad Leg which was going inneresting colours.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked. Drizzle for the last mile or so.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y cancer treatment <click>.

Well this is getting old very very quickly. .

For the sake of something to do: washed the leanto floor, then ran the vac over the house without moving much whilst doing so.

The water from the floor washing was an inneresting shade of light black.

I think I'll put the stuff in the leanto back from whence it came before I make tea.

'Tis an odd thing but around this time of year I seem to grind to a halt. All through the summer I was working my bollox off doing various things. Now the clocks have changed: nothing.

Just spent 20 minutes using the slag chipping hammer to chip ice off the top of the chest freezer. I suspect it's time I defrosted it, but at least the lid closes properly now. .

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>. Jenrick came on.

In other news it's hammering down again.

The Nazi programme.

The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder. I think this one's in B&W after last week's technicolor extravaganza.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Looked very gloomy out earlier, but it remained dry. Quite windy though, and it's supposed to be getting windier as the day goes on.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather a grey start, though the cloud looks fairly thin and there seem to be gaps appearing towards parts of the horizon. It’s a bit damp after overnight rain, but not even drizzling at the moment, though it may start again for a short spell soon (65%). The temperature of 10°C “feels like” 4°, and peak hotness will be 14°. The barometers are unchanged at 992/1000mB

[NickFitz]

I did a bit more mucking around with shaders earlier

And then I read some more of Terraplane, in which extremely bad things are happening to good people - a normal and frequent occurrence in these books

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I was in ours at about 4pm and they were offering the guy having his flu jab a free one because it was end of day and they'd be throwing it away (he declined). So next year go in late in the day and you might be in luck

I had an appointment! I had one last Friday at 1pm and when I went, they apologised because they’d run out and rescheduled it for 11am today, and when I went for that, they told me they wouldn’t give me one!

[mudskipper]

The chemist knocked me back for a Covid jab; apparently I don’t meet the criteria any more, so the nurse who gave me my flu jab had got it wrong

I told them I’d pay for one, but they don’t do private ones! Don’t want to have to go to Boots, but they may be the only option

It did occur to me that they might have told me at the original appointment on Friday and saved me a walk in the drizzle today

Lunch has been a steak slice - Ginster's, as they were out of Pukka ones when I did the shopping

It wasn’t as nice as a proper one; I won’t bother with them again

I was in ours at about 4pm and they were offering the guy having his flu jab a free one because it was end of day and they'd be throwing it away (he declined). So next year go in late in the day and you might be in luck

[mudskipper]

ncotbac

Everyone is so quick (they def introduce a delay for the telly!). Too old and slow.

Got the HTML though - giving myself the credit for that one!

[ladymuck]

If someone doesn’t know what is tax deductible, are we sure they’re cut out to be a contractor?
mudskipper

I did say at the start of that round that MS should get all of those!

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a dull and damp day. Currently 10 degrees and the high was 13. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 07:11; Subset 16:19 GMT

Busy day at the coal face. I was in the office today and then picked up HWMBO on the way home. I made him get the staff bus to the office to save me the pick up fee.

Dinner was dim sum eaten while watching mudskipper 's team on Only Connect get a very reputable score and move onto the next round.

[WTFH]

If someone doesn’t know what is tax deductible, are we sure they’re cut out to be a contractor?
mudskipper

[NickFitz]

Tea: curried mince and chips

To go along with that, a new episode of Traffic Cops

[xoggoth]

While on me walky, had a look where I mentioned that that car had ended up in woods. It had hit a tree in a direction about 45 degrees away from direction of road and at least 5m from it. No tracks nearby and no sign of any damage to the bank or any other trees. Only possibility is it hit another vehicle at speed and flew through the air. Seen that happen once on a motorway but can't see how anyone could be doing that speed on a little rural road.

As expected loony lady 2 contacted me to help her with the Roku stick again. Groan!

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday done! Nineteen more days until I finish for the year

Today went surprisingly well, considering I was very much lacking enthusiasm. I’d worked out various bits over the last week while feeling my way around the project, which depends heavily on code for collecting together and analysing large amounts of data that was written by other people around 2019 to 2020 and has, shall we say, some idiosyncrasies. This afternoon, to my surprise, I was able to quickly pull together various bits from my experimentation and get the whole basis for the planned app up and running! So the next step is largely styling UI components according to the designs

It’s still possible we’ll have to dig deeper into the data-related code that nobody wants to touch if we need a performance boost at a later stage, but we can cross that bridge after we’ve burned it