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[xoggoth]

Very low this morning after grotty night's sleep but went for a local walk round a Rudolf Steiner sort of new age community place, really nice, then stopped for latte at local cafe where there were a couple of people I know. Feeling much better mood now.

PS Just read a news article about an exploding lemonade bottle causing over £1500 worth of damge in a kitchen. Gordoneo Bennuto!
PPS Its DT, behind a paywall, so no linky.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the cold roast chicken thighs, as they Needed to be Eaten™. However, for a bit of variety, I gave them a light dusting of Sweet & Smoky BBQ Seasoning and heated them up in the air fryer. They turned out very nicely; I’ll do that again

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens <- it was when I started typing this

Fairly busy start to the day once I’d arisen, so much so that I forgot to greet you all!

It’s back to grey here and there’s been some drizzly showers, though they’re expected to have ended now. Currently 11°C which supposedly “feels like” 5°, though I didn’t think that when I was out. The expected high is 12°, and the barometers are down to 1004/1012mB

I had to go to the bank before doing the shopping, hence rushing around trying to get myself organised earlier in the face of this huge disruption to my normal routine. Late last year, Eon sent me an unexplained cheque for forty-odd quid - well, it had something like fifteen years of records of my bills at the old place included, so it must have been something to do with a recalculation of all that, but I wasn’t going to bother ploughing through it all and there was no further explanation given. As usual, the cheque was the wrong shape for the mobile banking app to be able to handle it, so it’s been sitting around ever since. But it’s approaching the six month mark when it would, apparently, expire, so I finally remembered to head to the bank and pay it in at one of the machines there

I managed to get one of the three parking spaces round the corner from the bank by the park, beneath the windows of my old flat from last Millennium, so I was able to squeeze a vague sense of nostalgia in while I was there

With that done, it was time to head off to Big Sainsbury’s. The only reason I was going there rather than Not-as-Big was because Big has (I was assuming) a wider range of Easter eggs; our family get-together this year will be on Good Friday, a week today, so this was my last chance to get them as part of my normal routine.

For many years we didn’t bother with Easter eggs, but for some reason the tradition was revived a few years ago. I always splash out on fairly fancy and expensive ones (Toblerone this year, which are £12 a pop even with the Nectar Price™ discount) and end up receiving small, cheap ones in return - Smarties or whatever. But it’s the thought that counts

Anyway, the eggs filled a large part of the trolley, which was good as it discouraged me from buying too much stuff I didn’t really need

Next: lunch

[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.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: someone waffling on about "mystery". Noon o'clock news.

Wanly sunny.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine/grey gloom, occasional spot of rain.

[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.

BBC4: "The sense of an ending (2017)". Not sure I got a lot of sense out of that, but there you go.