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[NickFitz]

Shopping accomplished!

I went past the old place, where the chestnut trees are only just starting to change colour - they always seem to be a few weeks behind, possibly a different strain? Their husks don’t really have much in the way of pointy bits either. Anyway, approaching from that direction brought me to M&S first, where I bought more than I expected to in the Food Hall. All good stuff though

And so onwards to Big Sainsbury’s, where I also ended up doing a bigger shop than expected. This was partly down to needing various things, but also picking up some bits that Not-as-Big doesn’t stock or often runs out of

I’m glad I went and got my hair cut yesterday lunchtime, as the plan was originally to go there first thing today, and that would have made the morning a bit too hectic

Anyway, time to grab some lunch; I think I’ll have a cold chicken leg

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy and dull. Occasionally the sun gets a look-in but I don't think it'll be returning any time soon. Currently 18 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 07:15; Sunset 18:21 BST

HMWBO and his offspring have left for the airport. I'm doing laundry.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

it’s cloudy out and everywhere is damp from overnight rain, though that’s stopped now. It seems a bit blustery too. It’s fairly mild in theory, but the current 16°C “feels like” 11°; the high will be 19° but only very briefly this afternoon. The barometers are down to 996/1004mB

Off to do the shopping shortly, including a trip to M&S while I’m that side of town

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Was damp: now wet, very wet. Raining pouring.

Grey.

Sunless: no rosy fingered dawn this day.

18.6 deg in here, 17.6 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.7 Torr, 14.61 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:18 and 10:27, in popped Brillo, BR14, DaveB, and SimonMac. Apparently getting into Aldi as a couple was verbotten. .

Entertainment: Further out of town with Jack Hargreaves & Simon Baddeley: butterfiles (enjoyed this bit), cold water fishing in winter (tedious), summer fishing in the Jack Bass lakes (quite tedious though he did catch a fish): altogether too much fishing.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and windy, but 17C warm on our walk earlier.


TFIF, etc.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Supergirl (2026) which was OK, if a bit patchy. Jason Momoa’s character had some great lines, but it felt like they could have made more of him; after an excellent introduction, he became something of a deus ex machina to be dropped in when convenient. A lot of it felt like that, TBH; it didn’t really cohere. Entertaining enough for the most part, but I expected more

Shopping tomorrow! Viz, of course, and some other essentials, such as food

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Today's theatrical performance was also very good. It was followed by a very nice dinner at a Uyghur restaurant just off the Tottenham Court Road.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol

To go with it, more of A House Through Time

[ladymuck]

I feel the interview was "meh" but will find out tomorrow or Monday at the latest.

Now off to Camden.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was for wimps today, as I decided to take a chance on dashing across town to get a haircut. The hairdresser’s husband isn’t dead yet so she was there, and there was just one chap being done and nobody else waiting - well, his toddler daughter was also there and was hoisted onto his knee to have her fringe trimmed after he’d been done, but that doesn’t really count

So with my hair cut in a reasonably timely manner, I got back home only to find that five minutes after I’d left, the AI session had been arranged at short notice! I’d already missed the start of it, but it was being recorded on Teams so I was able to catch up by skimming through the transcript afterwards. It was mainly either stuff I knew or stuff about policies and so on. For example, there’s a strict prohibition on letting AI generate code and also the unit tests for that code: you can have it generate tests for code you’ve written, or you can write tests for code it’s generated, but never the twain shall meet. This seems sensible

Having dealt with several security updates and fixed one minor problem whose only symptom was creating a load of warning messages when tests were running in the morning, I spent the rest of the afternoon fixing a bug which also wasn’t affecting anything but might have reared up and bitten somebody at some time in the future. This turned out to involve code dating back to July 2018! So most of the time was spent writing tests for it, as there were hardly any and I didn’t want to break anything. The end result was several dozen lines of tests, plus about six lines of code that fixed the potential bug

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky and the occasional wisp. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 15 expected. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 07:13; Sunset 18:23 BST

Yesterday we had a very early dinner (pre-theatre) at Acme Fire Cult; very good if a little on the salty side. We then wandered around the corner to the Arcola Theatre to watch The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James' novella. Followed by a Q&A with the script writer and director. An excellent evening.

Later today HWMBO's eldest and I will be off to Camden to see another play. We will then meet with HWMBO afterwards for dinner.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky today, but it’s a bit chilly as a result: currently 7°C and reaching the high of 15° this afternoon once it’s clouded over. The barometers are back up to 1008/1016mB

I managed to wake up properly, or at least enough to get up, on the second alarm

It’s Tech Debt Thursday today, so a break from the usual stuff - though there isn’t much usual stuff left TBH; although there are some remaining things to do, they depend on others outside our ambit getting stuff done. So they’ll be handled in an ad hoc fashion after next week, when I officially move on to… well, I’m not quite sure TBH. There’s a PowerPoint deck from a planning session I didn’t go to which I’m supposed to have a look at as that has the high-level details, but I forgot so I should probably do that

Today, I had hoped for a bit of peace and quiet to deal with the last few minor things, but it sounds like we’ll all be doing some kind of introductory AI session. The department has been very cautious about letting AI anywhere near code, but Number Ten is still very keen, so there’s been a small trial during the past year which is now gradually being expanded. It sounds like we’re about to be inculcated into the cult. I shall see if I can use up all my tokens on the first day, generating documentation of the older parts of this thing that I still don’t fully understand, as I’ve been putting that off for a while now

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, but a chilly 7.5C when we went out earlier.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Blue sky.

Rosy fingered dawn.

Dry.

17.9 deg in here, 17.7 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 9 out the back.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:15 and 10:18, in popped Brillo, BR14, DaveB, LM, northernladuk and SimonMac.

Entertainment: Further out of town with Jack Hargreaves & his step son: Cuckoo Maran chickens, hiring a cockerel for same, sea fishing for bream, transferring river fish to a new lake formed from a gravel pit dug to build a motorway.

Bab5 S4 E21: the bits I missed yesterday despite having the dvds over by there on a shelf.

Sunny now. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Two conversations, one of which revealed that the funny noise & flashing blue lights up the road some days ago was due to some oik crashing his/her/its car into another car coming the other way down the road. Fisticuffs ensued apparently.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4 E8. Scottish Islands thing: Shetland: Papa Stour, Muckle Roe, Whalsay, Out Skerries. The curse of the Bruce Lairds: last one died in 1944.

Alaska Homestead Rescue: S5E1: Newcastle Wyoming. It was 110 deg F when they arrived, on a homestead that once again lacked a water supply despite having a 930 ft deep well that had been drilled 20 years before. Dealing with the well was complicated by finding a sinkhole under the wellhead when they dug a trench to install a magic tapping point some 6 feet down below the "frost line" (avoids the pipeline to the property freezing during the arctic winters). Used a pitless well adaptor to interface the well to the pipeline. Turned out the original owners had committed suicide due to the pressures they faced. Their children contacted the Raneys for help. All 3 turned up in this one.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Bab5 S4 E22 "The deconstruction of falling stars". I recall how weird this ep appeared the first time I watched it back in the late 1990s.

[NickFitz]

More of Adulthood Rites read

Thursday tomorrow! No lunchtime shopping as it’s Viz week so I’ll be going to Big Sainsbury’s on Friday

Goodnight all