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[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.

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was chicken madras with rice and naan

To go along with this, the rest of the Police Interceptors from last night

I never got around to doing anything about the sink, as I decided that’s the kind of thing I’d rather leave to a day I’m not working. I worry that something catastrophic will happen whenever I do anything involving plumbing, even if it’s just pouring gloop down the plughole to eat away any gunk

[xoggoth]

Little "book reading", aka nattering group this afternoon. As usual I had not got round to reading anything. Nice walk after, just after a deluge of hail.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of leftover roast spuds with beef and gravy from Sunday

There was a bit more rain this morning but it’s brightened up a bit now. Still very blustery though

Yesterday, I did the mundane laundry in the morning and some bedding in the afternoon and evening, and for both wash cycles I happened to be in the kitchen when the machine drained, where I saw foam and a bit of water bubbling up into the sink. It wasn’t a lot, but I’m pretty certain it didn’t used to do that, though it’s not as if I stand in there watching the sink while the machine does its thing. Anyway, it seems likely that the trap is a bit gunked up

I remembered that a while ago, when the bath had similar woes, I’d bought some Mr Muscle drain unblocker - there was some kind of discount on Amazon at the time so I bought a few bottles. The only question was, where had I put them?

Having hunted around the flat, I eventually discovered them at the bottom of a box of stuff, so I’ll try chucking some of that down there and see if it frees things up. IIRC the instructions say to leave it for ten or fifteen minutes, but the online masses talk of leaving it overnight. As I’ve got a lot of it, I might just give it an hour or two this afternoon and see if that works; if not, I can try it for longer tonight

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Sunny.

Grey.

Wet.

Not wet.

Windy. More windy. Howling gales overnight with torrential rain.

Chilly in here at 13.5 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.649 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 62% 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.

Sun's out. I think I'll venture out on a walk with all the previously discarded layers undiscarded.

Two layers were discarded which might have kept me a bit warmer.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: someone waffling on R4. Noon o'clock news. Y&Y waffling on about inflation & scams.

Hail. Quite a lot of hail. Sun's out again now.

Book.

Tea: breaded "fish" of some sort: nicer than last week's example thereof. Had some unsweetened gooseberries out of the freezer: tart with the emphasis on tart. Entertainment: PM.

Hailing again.

Scotland Yard. Word perfect on that one.

Alice Roberts Hospital through history thing.

History of Welsh thing: some footballing chap whose grandfather set fire to the bombing range in north Wales in 1936.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Wet & windy overnight, and now just windy. 4C at 6am when we went out, good job my coat is windproof.