Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Call with Dave, catch up with Gerald & Matthias,
sync with Thorsten, then Pedro.
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Published the next strip with one approach for how (not)
to get free maintenance:
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Snatched lunch, call with Quikee - chat with an
old friend, sync with Philippe, got to a quick code-fix.
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Up early, chat with boiler man - new gas-valve ordered
and fetched by J. for fitting this evening - house: cold.
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Planning call, lunch with M&D
bid a fond farewell, and drove home with J.
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Lovely to see M. and H. and E. - the nest is refilling
temporarily it seems.
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Up early, chased boiler repair-people; J. got stuck
into gardening, ordered extra stair hand-rail & fixings,
plugged away at mending clippers & tidying the garage
for much of the day.
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Stayed home to meet repair-person while M&D&J
headed to see R&A and family in Pickering, great news from
them.
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Annoying mix-up with boiler-person, setup another for
tomorrow morning, pork-pie & beans for tea - did a chunk
of work, and chatted with Philippe.
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Coldish, out to Jennyfields Church in Harrogate - good
service, nice to catch up with Tony afterwards.
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Back for a fine lunch; poked at the boiler diagnostic
codes a bit with Dad - no gas smell while (not) lighting at
the outlet - hmm.
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Out for a walk with J. in the afternoon - enjoyed
the leaves falling to meet their reflection in the river at
the bottom of the steep sideded valley - beautiful.
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Up earlyish, caught up with M&D, out for a walk
down to the Watermill cafe for a spot of lunch with them.
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Home - poked at the central heating; pressure limiter
venting water; pressure crashing and boiler not starting.
Spent some time reading the manual, finding the expansion tank
(hidden behind the boiler), draining it & pumping it up.
Spent more time debugging lack of gas to the burners; no heating.
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Dinner together, watched Tea with Mussolini
together.
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Up lateish, a brief holiday - hang washing out with J,
out into Bury St Edmonds for an art display in the cathedral -
somewhat surprised to see a bar & beer taps at the back too.
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On to the pound-shop, and Primani (Primark), tasty
lunch together, drove home, more washing. Drained E-mail queue,
sorted out bank login bits.
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J. drove us to Knaresborough while I anti-socially
worked in the car; got various bits done.
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Mail chew, tech planning call, spot of lunch,
catch up with Laser, Lily, mail & admin. Positive
partner sales call.
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Home group in the evening, dropped John home.
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Slept badly, up early, mail chew, sync with Dave.
Plugged away at 2026 projections with Julie & Tracie.
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Published the next TORF strip highlighting why what everyone really
wants is a support and maintenance subscription:
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Snatched lunch, engaging CP all-hands meeting,
all afternoon & evening Collabora quarterly mgmt
meeting.
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Mail chew, planning call, monthly mgmt call,
sync with Andras, nursed a feverish E. Partner call.
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Up early; sync with Miklos, Thorsten, marketing,
Naomi, Pedro & Eloy. TDF board meeting.
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Up lateish, out to All Saints - ising; Tash talked
about YFC's work. Back, quick lunch with E - and drove to
B&A's to collect her.
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Sermon in the car on the way home with J. by
Rico Tice. Rested.
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Up earlyish, off with H. and J. to see B&A,
arrived, fish & chip lunch helped tidy the house &
get B. comfortable.
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Visited B. in Ipswich with H, left J. and drove
home.
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Plugged through mail & tickets. Call with Dave.
Sync with Laser, chat with a partner.
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Published the next strip exploring the somewhat perverse
way that those who do the most work are often blamed for not
having doing more:
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Poked at some document l10n code amid the admin.
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Up early, more Marketing & Sales updates
lunch; tour from Doug of the Lava-Lab - driving all sorts of
KernelCI and other testing
goodness.
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Bid 'bye to Eloy, wrapped up, fixed Alina's
bluetooth setup, dropped her into Cambridge & home.
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Out for new antibiotics - started on the mail and
admin backlog, made some progress.
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Up early, Marketing & Sales in-person all day;
lunch at the cafeteria, out for dinner & darts together
in the evening.
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Up early somewhat better; partner meeting in Cambridge,
great to show-off lots of new COOL features. Mini tour at the end.
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Marketing & Sales in-person meetup; lots of planning,
analytics, planning and more.
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Pub quiz together in the evening, back with Eloy to Newmarket.
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themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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