December is here. After the last two being two lockdown-driven letdowns, finding the holiday spirit is a bit more difficult, but I’m optimistic. The main obstacle is unpredictable trains, with strikes and other cancellations due later this month, but still hoping to see family this year.
Overnight groceries are great: All the fun of spontaneous purchases with the savings of bulk buys. The only downside is having to wake up at 7AM on a Sunday.
Spent most of this week preparing for end-of-year reviews, looking at options in recruiting and reacting to a few operational concerns. It’s the final stretch of the year now so everything that comes in is earmarked urgent - including a surprise risk-mitigation project.
Highlight this week was my team all getting together in-person for the first time since summer. It was for a workshop - but - the workshop started super late so while we waited, we had a proper natter.
The Kindle Scribe arrived a day early. First impressions: It’s a great e-reader, and the writing experience is great. Marking-up PDFs works like a charm. However its organisation options are no better than a regular Kindle, holding it back from being a notepad replacement. Perhaps most disappointingly, taking notes in books is limited to invisible post-it notes.
In the black friday sales I picked up new running shoes - and did a slightly more structured 10K. Making steady progress but my recovery pace needs lots of work.
Kara, Rowan, Luke & I started playing Create mod - which amongst many other things lets you over-engineer your way into automating Builders Tea. Just brilliant.
lol outgoing webmentions are still broken. Sorry Rowan.
