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[xoggoth]

Just had another scam call from somebody claiming to be a police officer calling about a person in custody with my surname. Wasn't anybody I knew, suprised they didn't get hold of a real relative's name, may have been a bit more convincing.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and dull. Currently 11 degrees and that's the high for the day. It might rain. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:48; Sunset 18:26 GMT

Having attended an 'all hands' call this morning, the "let's do things in siloes" change is coming from the top. Gotta love it when the organ grinder completely misses the point of a cross-functional change programme. Smile and invoice.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet.

Drizzly (vertical rather than the more usual horizontal).

Grey.

Sunless.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Misty.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 eek popped in, AndyGarbs got a pali, and Brillo popped in a lot.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast out, but currently dry. I’ve taken the day off. Might go shed shopping.

[NickFitz]

Things have taken a turn for the worse in Death’s End

I’ve got to go to Big Sainsbury’s tomorrow, so I suppose I’d better get to sleep

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea, lamb burger and fries

I’d forgotten I was watching the Netflix documentary about the Brazilian air crash! But there it was, halfway through the second episode (of three), so I finished watching that

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of cold roast chicken thighs

It’s been quite a frustrating morning. It’s Tech Debt Day, and one of the automated updates for our thing was to Black, the Python formatting tool. Unfortunately, they’ve introduced a change to one aspect of its formatting, and it conflicts with another tool we have for tidying up imports, isort. The end result was that Black would want to “fix" over a hundred files, and isort would then want to change them back again. After much digging, it turned out that Black has very few configuration options, so the only viable solution is to let it do its thing

To add insult to injury, I found a GitHub discussion about this specific change in which the Black developers say that it was a case of doing it one way or the other, and none of them had any strong opinions so they just picked that one! So it’s not as if there’s any reasoned argument for the change, it’s literally the luck of the draw

Anyway, back to the fray now, as we’re due to collaborate on trying to break some new thing before releasing it…

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Brr... Sunny with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:50; Sunset 18:24 GMT

Up early (but not as early as yesterday) to take my car to the garage for the repairs following that incident with the Uber driver. Expect to get it back tomorrow.

Completed a task I had been putting off / ignoring for gig2. Nothing like a looming deadline to motivate oneself. In this case, it's a meeting this afternoon.

It's cold in my little office. I have a blanket and my hot air blower.

[Pondlife]

Good morning all,

Wind 5 kt from the North/Northwest, varying between West/Northwest and North/Northeast
Temperature 8°C
Humidity 71%
Pressure 1024 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Scattered clouds at a height of 2400 ft
Scattered clouds at a height of 2900 ft

Mind how you go.

[xoggoth]

Mahjongy thing this morning. Toothpaste inspection later followed by boring shopping. Need some reading glasses, having lost yet another pair somewhere. Poundland sell 3 pairs of glasses for 6 quid, seem just as good as ones from Boots etc that cost hundreds each.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Mostly blue skies and a chilly start to our walk, but the lack of breeze made it a very pleasant temperature for most of it.
Off to the dentist shortly.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1016 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, whilst I was quietly lusting after that lady on the Mediaeval Maps thing.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine/grey gloom. The house in Tonna with A4 sheets stuck on the window & the front door has been ?repossessed?: they cleared it out yesterday.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 thing about WWII in Asia. Evan Davies telling us how wonderful heatpumps are.

Book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast with baked spud etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

From the looks of things there's nowt to watch on the idiot lantern again.

I am increasingly missing the dim & distant days of buying regular jeans in M&S for £9 a pair. Had I known then what I know now I'd have bought several dozen.

BBC4: Alice Roberts waffling on about 70 years of BBC clips about Stonehenge. Fell asleep for some of it.

"The sense of an ending (2017)".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Bright, sunny day out with barely a wisp of cloud in the sky. The wind’s dropped too, though there are supposedly occasional gusts. It’s a cool start at 3°C with an expected high of 9°, and the barometers are soaring upwards at 1010/1018mB

Thursday!

[NickFitz]

Tonight I continued reading Death’s End

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

There were intermittent downpours and sunshine. I managed to get out a lunchtime during the sunny part of the day.

A very frustrating day. The programme manager keeps interfering and has decided to change how things will be done rather than leave people to just get on with getting stuff done. Apparently the best way forward is to reinforce siloes...

HWMBO is cooking me dinner and the delicious wafts coming from the kitchen are making me feel hungry.