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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny. No cloud. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 30 expected. Barometer continues downwards to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 04:53; Sunset 21:05 BST

Had a very good night's sleep; absolutely knackered this morning. Not happy that, after yesterday's cooler temperatures and the wonderful breeze in the evening, we're back to firey ball conditions. There was no exciting weather around these parts.

My pension adviser wants a chat. I wonder if that's to tell me my fund has nose dived since I asked him to disinvest (is that a real word?) from all things US. I could take a look, I suppose.

[WTFH]

Morning all
05:12 wake up and out the door for a walk. Warming up now, even though it’s supposed to be cooler today.

[NickFitz]

The bread turned out very well, judging by external appearances

Having sliced it and made a round of toast, I can confirm that it did indeed turn out well

My earliest efforts at wholemeal loaves when I got the breadmaker (a year ago next week!) were too dense, so I tried the thing of using 25% white flour. This helped, but they were still too dense, particularly at the bottom. Then, a little while back, I accidentally put in twice as much olive oil as intended (I use that instead of butter because it’s easier) and it came out much better. And this time I accidentally put in nearly twice as much again, and it’s just about right all the way down

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Blue sky in parts.

Sunny.

23.3 deg in here, 25 Hg deg in the kitchen, 22.5 alcohol deg in the leanto.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 LM and BR14 managed to squeeze a post or two past Brillo's drivel. BR14 was having a hard time.

Had the upstairs windows open all night, and only needed the cover sheet after 03:00 or so. No dreams to speak of, which made a pleasant change.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked. The canal is still flowing down that hole up by Calor Gas. Oddly there's a new patch of tarmac on the path. Maybe someone was investigating where the water is going.

Isn't the usual means of plugging such a leak simply dumping some bags of bentonite clay in the hole in the hope that it expands & plugs the leak?

Goodness me, that does seem to be technique that's used. How the feck did I know that?

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with bits of high, wispy cloud here and there, and still quite breezy. Currently 14°C, which feels like 11°, but the heatwave is making one last attempt to kill us all with an expected high of 28°

I was awoken around 4am by a mighty crashing of thunder! Lots of rolling thunder and flashes of lightning carried on for quite some time, accompanied by rain, though I drifted back to sleep quite quickly so I don’t know how long it went on

Thursday!

I’ve been thinking about the shopping. I reckon I’ll go to Not As Big at lunchtime, as I don’t really need much - once again, I could do with using up what’s accumulated in the freezer. I can get some fairly straightforward work done and dusted this morning, and the afternoon includes about three hours of meetings that run from 14:00 up to EOD, only the last of which is the kind of thing in which I may be expected to contribute anything - it’s just an informal catchup for all the devs in the portfolio (?). I can eat lunch during the 14:00 and nobody will know, or care

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of last night’s Police Interceptors

Meanwhile in The Middle Kingdoms, they’ve only gone and invented bureaucracy, economists, and the state. This has led to rulers issuing ever-increasing numbers of decrees, including one who took it upon himself to specify, for the benefit of his subjects, the five acceptable ways of measuring the length of a fish. And it’s also led to the foundation and rise of Freemasonry, which has been eagerly embraced by noblemen, administrators, and military officers across the continent

The bread turned out very well, judging by external appearances

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been breaded cod with chips and beans

Still sunny but the breeze is getting more vigorous if anything. I still haven’t put the air conditioner on since finishing work, and I reckon it can probably stand down now

[NickFitz]

Today was the sprint transition day so there were several meetings. I showed off some stuff in the Show & Tell this morning to the wider… portfolio, I think that organisational level is called? Not long after that finished, we had the team sprint retrospective. This didn’t take long, as there’s only three of us now (PM, DM, me) and we’re generally knocking back feature requests as the thing will be going into maintenance mode soon. But it helped pass some time before lunch

This afternoon was sprint planning, which was mainly moving leftover stuff around and adding a couple of bug (or perhaps just misfeature) tickets. And not long after that, it was the weekly huddle for the whole… directorate? I think that’s it. Over five years I’ve been on this gig and I still only have the vaguest idea of how the Civil Service names its parts

That left the final hour to finish off something interesting to do with users uploading files which have been exported from Excel with the wrong settings (which are, of course, Microsoft’s default settings) and thus have a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark at the start. The fix is literally four characters: replace “utf-8” with “utf-8-sig” and it works for anything. But I ended up spending ages working on tests to prove it was broken without that and not broken with it, which was a useful rabbit hole as I’ll need to deal with some other changes to this area of code next, and now I have a better idea of how it’s organised

I’ve just put a wholemeal loaf on to bake, which I’d forgotten to do until too late the last couple of days. It takes five hours unless you use the “quick” option, but I tried that once and the resulting quality wasn’t quite good enough for me

[NickFitz]

Not much different for me. I really don't understand it, I open all the windows 2+ hours before bed and put a fan in one window but temperature in the bedroom hardly drops at all, 25' last night. Use a little almost silent fan from a computer, really helps. Been doing my walks close to sunset when that damn shiny thing is hiding behind the trees.

I did much the same last night and it only dropped about one degree, to around 26°C, but at least it cooled down a lot more overnight

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bratwurst with the usual trimmings

It continues to be warm but not yet intolerable. I’ve had the study window open all morning and there’s a reasonably cool breeze, so the area of my desk has remained around the 25°C mark. But now the sun’s getting round that side and it’s warming up more, I think I’ll have to close both window and blinds to keep things bearable

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Still sunny and no cloud. A cool 26 degrees at the moment with a high of 28 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 04:54; Sunset 21:03 BST

I opted against travelling to gig3 offices this morning.

Productive morning spent drawing up a process map that still won't be what gig2 wants, but maybe it'll help them express what they want.

[xoggoth]

Last night was, I think, a little more bearable than the previous two

Not much different for me. I really don't understand it, I open all the windows 2+ hours before bed and put a fan in one window but temperature in the bedroom hardly drops at all, 25' last night. Use a little almost silent fan from a computer, really helps. Been doing my walks close to sunset when that damn shiny thing is hiding behind the trees.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny and Simpsonesque start, and expected to be not quite as vile: 15°C now, rising to 25° for a spell in mid-afternoon. The barometers are steady at 1015/1023mB

Tomorrow will see a brief resurgence of The Unpleasantness with a high of 28°, after which things will start getting back to normal, with daily highs dipping below 20° by early next week and rain expected most days

Last night was, I think, a little more bearable than the previous two

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
Phew, scorchio, etc.
Max was exhausted after his trip to the beach last night, and apart from him needing to go out at 02:30, he didn't want to go for a walk this morning, just a wander around the garden

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Warm in here at 22.6 deg, 23 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762 Torr, 14.74 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, NF, and vetran popped in, as did I, with NF thinking of phoning the Chinese to place his order.

Upstairs windows open all night to cool the place down a bit: the racket from the bypass wasn't too bad. Still hot in here.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the morning's unbearable heat.

In other news there's a leak in the canal up by Calor Gas. Dunno where the water is ending up but it's swirling down a hole like a good 'un.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: a thing about drug tests and the family courts. The usual chaos.

Book.

Someone is reroofing the shed next door. Well there's a thing.

Rain! I stood outside in it for a while until it stopped.

Cleaned the plugholes for the bathroom and the kitchen sink.

Now getting outside a mug of consistent yet mediocre coffee.

Yobs hammering up & down the towpath on motorbikes. Now where did I put that AK? Askin' for a friend. .

Took kitchen thermometer to bits, firkled around with the display, put it back together: still fecked, possibly even more fecked than it was before.

Found a mercury thermometer which is thick enough for me to read.

Minor potching in the garden.

Looked at the caterpillars currently consuming the nettles. They've grown a lot.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>. UFO bollox on Blaze.

Jack Hargreaves: Out of Town: Southall horse mart. Kent: shooting ducks on a lake formed by a closed colliery.

The Lugubrious One: "The Silent Weapon (1961)". The boomerang one.

More Blazian Bollox: With Dan Aykroyd: "wot lies beneath".

Possibly "Marilyn and the mob". Or how the Kennedys managed to share women with the Mafia. Who'd have thunk?

Thunder & lightning, very very frightening. Freesat dropping out left right & centre, thusly dropping back to terrestrial.