Major theme of this week has been cramming before my holiday: Which has meant cranking through the chores I need to finish, trying to set many things in motion at work, reaching out to people to catch-up and a surprising amount of last-minute shopping. I now own another pair of trainers, but between discounts and clever accounting on my part these were basically free.
Spent oodles and oodles of time digging through JavaScript module behaviour.
After feeling very rotten over the weekend and Monday, I spent the entire week working from home. In part, just in case I was contagious, and in part because I don't want to catch anything before flying next week. I don't think I could be remote full-time: Video-calls are much more draining even with a really nice set-up — but my main issue is a lack of self-discipline around stopping the workday from bleeding into the evening - no matter how early I start.
But I did get to walk around South West London a lot. No two days did I take the same route to go, and really surprised myself with how many things I just hadn't seen in two and a bit years of living here.
PVO is back, baby!
Kristo & I got published this week, talking about an upcoming shortage of data centre power, which is my first byline at the FT. The work involved was fairly straightforward (and, quick) — we did the majority of it at the start of September, but seeing the final piece is something else. We got promoted in several places, and a fairly interesting reception. The comments did not disappoint!
Side-note, there are many things we did not talk about - but something I am fascinated by is Microsoft's intention to build their own private nuclear power plants. (No, they weren't inspired by Oppenheimer - they just saw this coming).
My final exam was supposed to happen this week. Not bitter.
Oh yeah, and I got a haircut. It's something a bit different. I'm not sure if I like it. We'll see.
