Week 119

The “Fish finger named most Beard Friendly Sandwich for second year running” news inspired me to get some fish fingers and put them in a sandwich (a “fish stick sandwich” for US English speakers) and I am grateful for the inspiration.

I don’t fully understand the “beard friendly” fuss, but what’s good for the bearded is good for the beardless – a sandwich sopping with ketchup, mayonnaise etc is annoying enough if you’re not concerned about soiling a beard, because bare faces get dirty too.

Some work.

• This is a bit embarassing because independent schools are bad (although taking their advertising coins might be praxis). (Wick, it turns out, is a place in Litttlehampton as well as a better known place in North Scotland.)

• I accidentally deleted all the timetable data – not ideal, and worse still I was a bit incapacitated by hayfever and one unit of beer when I realised.

  I wasted time fiddling about with a perfect solution (surgically restoring just the stuff I’d deleted), before settling for a much easier, good enough solution (restoring the backup from a few hours ago and not worrying about the few hours of vehicle tracking data that would be lost).

  (Thanks to DigitalOcean® Managed Databases’ automatic backups for saving my arse.)

• Made an improvement to the layout of certain weird timetables. That’s what it’s all about, iterative improvement, it just keeps getting better, and if no one notices, good.

Went to an Fauxtalian chain restaurant (lots of outdoor seating) with some people cooler than me, and had the best (only) meatballs I’ve had this month.

I was going to go to the Fens but I was too tired so I didn’t and that’s OK. Cool story.