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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading has been One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown. It’s entertaining stuff, but could have done with being edited with a bit more care. For example, he says that Paul McCartney’s 21st birthday party was in the garden of his Auntie Jin’s house, “across the Mersey in Huyton” - but Huyton isn’t across the Mersey from his family home in Allerton; it’s about four miles northwest. I suspect he meant Heswall. And he contradicts what he wrote in an earlier sentence in the same paragraph in a story about Paul and Jane Asher. Still, there are plenty of good anecdotes in there, and it’s not as if any of it is a matter of huge importance

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s southern not-fried chicken with chips

To accompany this, the rest of the Police Interceptors from last night

And I found time earlier to get the tea towels, aprons, and oven gloves in the wash; they’re just coming to the end of their drying cycle

[ladymuck]

perhaps you'll get a call when the 'all new' programme gets started.

That's not impossible! The good PM and I have worked together before (which is how I got the job) so if he can bring me back, he will.

[sadkingbilly]

Well! The PM I don't trust was called into the office at 9am, asked to hand in his building pass and told to leave with immediate effect.

The PM I do trust has been retained and he's gutted that I've been canned.

perhaps you'll get a call when the 'all new' programme gets started.

[ladymuck]

Gig3 called two separate meetings for 9.30 this morning. The cohort I was in all got terminated with one week notice because the programme is being completely reset. My gig was up in three weeks but now summer holiday is starting sooner than planned. Yesterday, the PM's I work with were reassuring me that they still needed me on the programme. One I believe actually meant that, the other I don't trust so much.

Well! The PM I don't trust was called into the office at 9am, asked to hand in his building pass and told to leave with immediate effect.

The PM I do trust has been retained and he's gutted that I've been canned.

[NickFitz]

Gig3 called two separate meetings for 9.30 this morning. The cohort I was in all got terminated with one week notice because the programme is being completely reset. My gig was up in three weeks but now summer holiday is starting sooner than planned. Yesterday, the PM's I work with were reassuring me that they still needed me on the programme. One I believe actually meant that, the other I don't trust so much.

Bummer

[NickFitz]

Shopping has been done!

And lunch has been a bit of pork pie

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Currently 24 degrees with a high of 29 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:03; Sunset 21:11 BST

Gig3 called two separate meetings for 9.30 this morning. The cohort I was in all got terminated with one week notice because the programme is being completely reset. My gig was up in three weeks but now summer holiday is starting sooner than planned. Yesterday, the PM's I work with were reassuring me that they still needed me on the programme. One I believe actually meant that, the other I don't trust so much.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Blue sky (now: it wasn't when I woke at 04:30).

Sunny (ditto).

24.1 deg in here, 25.3 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 22 out the back.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob & eek popped in.

Woke at 04:30ish. Read book. Sleep did not return. Got up. Listened to that somnolent stuff they put on ITV4. Watched Jack Hargreaves again: the gardening & the eel catching one: he really liked sweet peas, also mentioned chess and his chess playing skool teacher chap. Eventually sleep returned & dozed in the chair until 09:30. Ho hum. .

Walk (abbreviated, up the hill in the coolth of the lane about a mile and a half) walked.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the fertility thing. Classic Movies: "Great Expectations".

Secret Nazi Bases: W2 in France.

Secret Nazi Bases: the Labrador Nazi Automatic Weather Station.

Why is Nazi concrete so much better than ours? Why are their installations so much better designed? How the feck did these guys lose? It's an Enigma wrapped in a Bombe & Colossus (though that was the Lorentz).

The Arado underground tunnels.

Old Country with Jack Hargreaves: the right sort of grease to use: vegetable on vegetable, animal on animal, mineral on mineral (though castor oil used to work on early engines). Horse tack: the ins & outs of coupling a horse to a trailer. Dog training: a well trained terrier, unlike most dogs you meet these days.

Tea: baked beans and baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>

Scott Quinell getting up early to work in Swansea Amazon, the lucky bastard: I used to see the morning shift on the bus on my way to Ye Newe Sloughe of Desponde. Glad I've never had to work in a place like that. 2nd rhan: night porter at the hotel in Portmeirion. It costs £25 to do a day visit (used to be 2/6d back in the long long long ago IIRC (which I probably don't)).

Bab5 S2 E6 "Spider in the web". The dead man walking one.

Nazi construction in the Netherlands. Buried in the sands.

Scottish Tourist Agency. Part II. Well the plague put paid to that. One chap in a hotel said he felt like he was living in an episode of "The Shining". Here's Johnny!

To end all wars: Oppenheimer. Well that doesn't seem to have worked very well, now does it?

Nice guy that Staws* geezer. And the Father of the H Bomb was an arsehole too.

*Yes, I know it's not spelled that way. :.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with just a few wisps of cloud here and there. There’s a breeze too, so the current 16°C “feels like” 14°. The expected high is 26° for most of the afternoon, and the barometers are back down a touch at 1012/1020mB

I managed to immediately fall back asleep after the first two alarms, and still feel quite sleepy. I suspect the hay fever isn’t helping me get a good night’s sleep, though it doesn’t seem quite as bad today

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc.
Pleasant walk with a comfortable breeze.

[NickFitz]

I finished reading Ra tonight. It’s very good; he mentioned on Bluesky that he’s given some thought to rewriting it for “proper” publication as he did with There is No Antimemetics Division, though I suspect he’ll probably work on a new story instead

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt day

Today, I was able to release the stuff I’ve been finishing off (along with adding some new bits we hadn’t realised we needed until very recently) for the last few weeks. This was a bit complicated to deal with as it’s the stuff for getting data from our service into the data warehouse, so I had to make sure the data pipelines worked and then get a different team to approve them before they could be deployed, and also get the stuff that implements the necessary APIs on our end tested and released. But when all that was done, I enabled the pipelines and triggered a manual run of the new ones, and it all worked! So I think that’s safely out of the way and tomorrow will be relatively peaceful, just dealing with security upgrades for various dependencies, and removing some stuff to do with an external service that’s being decommissioned at the end of the month

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Quite a good one for your Monday Links Fizzy Knickers.

The controversial theory that predicts when humans will go extinct | News Tech | Metro News

Cheers xog!

[NickFitz]

Watch out for marauding grizzlies whilst you're at it. Can't be too careful these days..

I didn’t bother going in the end as it was too hot. They want to repeat one of the blood tests too and the earliest appointment they could give me for that was in August, so I now assume it isn’t that urgent

[ladymuck]

First episode of the new series of The Piano watched.

Apparently there's some form of association football on.