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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Irritating beeping from one or other of the smoke detectors. Then the batphone.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Damply damp.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

982 mBar, 28.998 in Hg, 736.56 Torr, 14.242 psi, (up from 976.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 covbob, DaveB, LM, WTFH, NF and I popped in to sort out how many meals resided in NF's freezer and whether spirits counted as an antiviral. and the assembled congregation were reminded of by DaveB.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Dawn chorus started just before 6:40, at which time it was starting to get bright out and not raining (although it had been raining overnight). I was happy that so far on the walk, my choice of clothes had been correct - no need for the waterproof trousers, so it was jeans & a long coat. About half an hour later the heavens opened
Got back home around 7:45 and have hung my jeans up to dry.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start again. It may be 6°C, but it “feels like” 3° and it’s getting no warmer than 7°. It’s also maybe (50%) going to rain around teatime and in the night. The barometers are negligibly up at 969/977mB

But it’s Thursday!

It’s also the day when we’re supposed to deal with tech debt, but I’m hoping we’re light on that this fortnight and I can get more done on my current thing, as it’s close to being ready to hand off to the stakeholders so they can say it’s not what they wanted

I’ve also remembered that late last year, I proved that it was feasible to do the shopping by popping along the road to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s on Thursday lunchtime so I don’t have to do it in the evening or on Friday. So I might do that

[NickFitz]

More Swift stuff done, now at the level of writing tests to work out some of the idiosyncrasies of SwiftData

And I also finished The Jane Austen Project. It’s an entertaining read

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I got distracted by some Swift stuff for this app I’m working on, and decided I couldn’t be bothered with cooking - also, I didn’t have anything in that I fancied. So I went on Deliveroo and ordered something from the Turkish place

It arrived in ten minutes! Definitely the fastest food delivery I’ve ever received

This was accompanied by a further episode of 999: What Happened Next on 4. Turns out driving to a tiny village in the middle of nowhere during the Covid lockdown to commit a crime made it extremely easy for the police to track your movements via CCTV and ANPR, as there were hardly any other cars on the roads

[NickFitz]

Another pretty productive day!

I got bogged down for a while this afternoon tracking down some weird behaviour in a React component. I think I figured it out in the end; at any rate, it’s doing what it ought to now. The other dev was busy with some other stuff but she knows much more about React than I do, so she said she’d have a look tomorrow to check I haven’t done something else weird that merely happens to work at the moment

It rained quite heavily for a while after lunch, but the sky cleared a bit towards the end of the day so we got an hour or so of sunny spells

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sardines-in-tomato-sauce toastie

Still grey here, though the drizzle stopped

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

981 mBar, 28.97 in Hg, 735.8 Torr, 14.23 psi, (up from 979 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 BR14, covbob, LM, and NF popped in, and I bought this very chromebook from an Argos shop that isn't there any more.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the rain. Dry to start & didn't stay that way for long. Ho hum.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the 11:45 thing. <click>.

Foyle's War S8 E2 "Trespass". Begin's finest hour: killing 90 odd people in The King David Hotel bombing. Getting his hand in for later. Then bringing their terrorism to London. Plus the rent-A-Nazi follower of Moseley MBGA.

Sun came out & it turned into a pleasant looking afternoon, rather more pleasant than this morning's grey & miserable walk.

Book: Mercator has ended up in prison for Believing The Wrong Things: such as Reading the Bible in Translation and Evil Things like that. Fortunately his wife burned all his letters before the inquisitors had chance to read them. . Otherwise Mercator would probably have been and not in a Good Way. .

At least William Tyndale was strangled before he burned unlike the unfortunates in this country under Bloody Mary.

Tea: Tesco battered (or might be breaded) cod. A bit meh, if I'm honest about it. Entertainment: PM <click>

Look at Life: The Straits of Dover and the introduction of the one way system.

Scotland Yard. "The bullet from the past" (1957). with Ballard Berkeley.

Yesterday: Abandoned Engineering. London: deep tunnels, SOE, Interservices Research Bureau, Ian Fleming. Hotline subsequently went through the later telephone exchange. Pinelands, NJ: Lakehurst AFB. Hindenberg fire. Grimsby Ice Factory. Killed by the 1970s cod war. Italy: Rovegno colony as built by dear old Musso. Subsequently used by Italian partisans to off German POWs and fascist supporters in 1945.

TLC: Bad skin clinic. Woman used some "Orange" creme off the interweb which set off her eczema. Chap with familial lipomas, lots of them. They keep coming back, it's the 2nd time he's had them removed. Chap with acne keloidalis nuchae: laser, steroid, antibiotics. Woman with a large epidermoid cyst on her face: cheesy goodness. .

Elementary S1 E13. "The Red team". Military industrial complex war games paranoia.

Bit of "Science fiction: Mary Shelley to Isaac Asimov" thing on Sky Arts.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Gentle spitting at the start of the walk, but within a few minutes that had stopped. Miracle of miracles.
A bit breezy out, but the dawn chorus was in full song by 6:45

[NickFitz]

On my way to newClientCo for Day1. A "stand up" that takes an hour every week is at 9 am so I've been asked to turn up at 8.30 am to be shown around etc. Decided to take the train instead of drive as it's hopefully a more predictable journey. Google maps was estimating between 1h10m and 2h if I were to drive it.

Commuting!

Old skool

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day, and drizzly too at the moment, with more of the same likely off and on. Mild enough at 8°C with 10° expected by lunchtime; there’s no breeze to speak of, so the “feels like” figure of 6° is down below the fold. The barometers have plummeted further to 969/977mB

[ladymuck]

^^ om



Morning all

The sun is not yet ris. Cloudy. Wet but no active precipitation. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer down to 983 mBar.

Sunrise 07:23; Sunset 17:09 GMT

On my way to newClientCo for Day1. A "stand up" that takes an hour every week is at 9 am so I've been asked to turn up at 8.30 am to be shown around etc. Decided to take the train instead of drive as it's hopefully a more predictable journey. Google maps was estimating between 1h10m and 2h if I were to drive it.

[NickFitz]

Much mucking about in Xcode this evening, trying to get SwiftData to do something it seemed unwilling to do. But I cracked it in the end

This meant that I only had time for a couple of chapters of The Jane Austen Project, in which the time travellers’ subterfuge is starting to unravel

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by Police Interceptors, which turned out to be the last in the series - but another series has already started!

[NickFitz]

No rain here yet, but the radar suggests it may arrive soon

I did, in fact, manage to get some stuff done this afternoon. There was one thing which I thought was going to be quite tricky involving a complex React component, but it turned out after I read the docs for it (and understood them, and read part of a basic React tutorial to make sure I understood) that it was really easy to do! So that was pleasing

But then I got waylaid, having to work with the other dev on filling out a long and incredibly tedious form for the forthcoming annual pentest of the app. This involved things like dumping out a list of every URL in the app, then going through them comparing them to the same list from the form a couple of years ago (last year’s has been lost) to check what to include where. Using a diff tool helped with this, but it still wasn’t exactly exciting

But that’s Tuesday done, meaning I’m halfway through the week