Week 119

Monday 28 June 2021

• 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.