HMRC "do you need help with your tax return" emails are so passive aggressive.
Okay okay okay I'm getting around to it, jeez
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There is something extremely cursed about an ice cream van going past blaring its creepy music at 8pm in November.
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Week in review: 16th - 22nd November
- Weather was all over the place this week, so no long walks but a few nearby beach wanderings.
- Less brain fog than I've felt in a long time.
- Persuaded Dave to make bread for the first time ever and it was better than any bread I have ever made. I made a cake.
- Wrote more javascript than is probably healthy:
- to fix bugs and add features to Credentials CG minutes publishing infrastructure;
- to help a friend send multiple hundreds of emails under a set of bizarre constraints for her job, using google appscript;
- to fix/update some DID spec respec plugins.
- Some DID spec editorial work.
- Thinking about policies and mitigations about redundancy, for the Co-op (the idea is to get this sorted before we need it, rather than suddenly having to deal with it in a time of crisis).
- Irretrievably behind on nanowrimo, but had some nice short writing sessions, including on the beach.
- Started crocheting a new wallet.
- Walked to Burntisland and back, fairly spur of the moment.
- Watched some good movies, including Sorry to Bother you and The Handmaiden.
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I have written an uncharacteristic amount of javascript this week.
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Been in one place for almost two months and getting that itchy feet thing.
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As the family 'computer person' I just spent 2 hours trying to help someone with a mail merge and JFC it's so hard?! Even with purely google tools. I can't believe things haven't moved on since I last knew how to do this, in the early 00s.
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Dear companies*, if I email you do not try to respond by calling me.
* This applies to people too, but isn't usually a problem because don't usually have my number..
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Reading about the Bosnian elections is inexplicably making me homesick for the Balkans. It's all the random pictures of Sarajevo and little mountain towns I guess. It's nice that something positive in politics might be happening somewhere in the world, anyway, for a change.
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Week in review: 9th - 15th November
- Hiked from Leven to Upper Largo, up Largo Law, and back (Dave's photos).
- Hiked from Kirkcaldy to Burntisland along a new route (got groceries and took the train back)
- Walked to Dysart and back, twice, once at night which turned out to be clear and mild and was lovely.
- Made two potentially lifechanging decisions, but either could fall through at this point so I'm not telling you what yet.
- Spent a lot of time and energy on things mentioned in previous bullet point.
- Focussed on internal Co-op work.
- Poked around with sloph a bit.
- Watched all of Queen's Gambit, that was great. Slowly watching To The Lake.
- Started Dune Messiah.
- NaNoWriMo progresses slowly, too far behind to catch up now, but aiming to write more than 0 words per day. Did a bit of plotting, too.
- Some things on my street were set on fire. Cool. (Not. Not cool.)
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I just found this chat from 13 Feb 2011.. two thousand and eleven. Oh sweet summer child.
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Opening, fixing, and closing (with comment) github issues on my own projects does feel a lot like talking to myself.
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In recent weeks I'm getting slightly more interested in... stuff... tech stuff. And feeling more able to take things on than I have in long time. I think this means I might actually be recovering from the Great Burnout of 2017?
But hard to test, because I'm also taking a bunch of holiday from my day job this month, and I haven't had to think about travelling/travel planning since August, so maybe that has freed up some areas of my brain that were busier than I realised before.
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Week in review: 2nd - 8th Nov
- Ran to Seafields.
- Attended the DID Working Group not-face-to-face meetings (a good time!).
- Fell ever further behind on nanowrimo, but kept plugging away.
- Invested in a bike helmet and lock...
- ...went cycling! With some random friendly locals, during a torrential downpour (not really random, it was a Greener Kirkcaldy community bike ride, but I was the only one who showed up).
- Attended a Social Web Incubator CG meeting and got some stuff done for a vocab collaboration with the DID WG.
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My brother walked in on me draining some chickpeas I'd left to soak so I took the opportunity to explain to him the various exciting properties of aquafaba and he nodded and smiled and backed away saying "...I'll just leave you to your alchemy."
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Only 8000 words behind, this is fine.
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I have really enjoyed the DID WG not-face-to-face meetings this week. I still feel pretty lost in most of this, but looking back to almost two years ago when this started, I have learnt so much about so many topics I wasn't expecting to ever know anything about because of this work. I appreciate everyone in this group.
Unending gratitude to manu and others at Digital Bazaar for supporting me - financially, educationally and emotionally - to work in this stuff in the first place.
(It's been challenging at times, but not as emotionally fraught or generally stressful as the Social Web WG was. Maybe most of that is because I've grown since then, though, and also because it hasn't consumed my entire life like SWWG did..)
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