First Bangla curry night for a while on Wednesday. No Robin or Dave this time, so I escaped a potential post-meal mid-week Wetherspoons session.
The Friday 5 series started again on … er … Friday, with our club’s home fixture at Kirton. I helped hand out numbers beforehand, and the new system of having a bunch of us standing outside the hall with an envelope full of bibs each and a phone to allocate them as people arrived worked far better than the long queues of old. In retrospect we should have worn hi-vis so we didn’t just look like random people accosting runners, but that’s a minor tweak! There was a minute’s applause on the start line in memory of Collette, who died on Sunday, and we formed a guard of honour at the finish for her husband Mike, who still ran in the race. It was a similar story on Saturday, when lots of people ran her home parkrun in club colours, or just red in general.
A mildly frustrating couple of days at work, accruing what may actually be close to the original definition of technical debt (as opposed to just “crap code” or “stuff we’d like to refactor”). I won’t bore you with details, but because of previous decisions adding something the customer needed fairly quickly entailed a fair amount of shotgun surgery and semi-duplication. We’re planning some changes to make the same kind of thing cleaner and faster to do in the future, but those changes were never going to be implemented in time for this specific set of features, so I had to bite the bullet and temporarily add to the mess.
I finally finished playing Batman Arkham City on my Steam Deck. Well I say finished, but after end credits that seemed to go on for about three weeks it dumped me back in the game, but with the main story complete. I carried on for a while, then decided to abandon it and give Arkham Knight a go.
Yet another bank holiday weekend, with appropriate cloudy weather and scattered showers. I haven’t done a lot with it so far, but am looking forward to a bonus day off tomorrow.
I accidentally watched the F1 for the first time in years (and the second time in about twice as many years), after switching the TV on to watch something on catch-up and seeing that Channel 4 were about to show their delayed coverage of the Monaco GP. Reassuring to see that it’s still just as much of a pointless procession round a circuit where passing is virtually impossible, and that they’re still messing around with novelty features – this time two mandatory pit stops – in an attempt to liven it up. Truly bizarre to see cars pitting in the first and last laps for no mechanical reason. It also didn’t help that I’d only really heard of two or three of the drivers, and I didn’t even realise that the orange cars were McLarens for an embarrassingly long time (everyone knows McLaren are red and white, right?)