Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, off to the EuroCommons event nearby,
lots of interesting people to talk to, and some great
talks for much of the day.
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Published the next strip: Orchestrating a crisis -
emergency measures must be taken!
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Drinks, and out for dinner with some openDesk
friends.
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Mail chew, planning call - the summer holiday
season starts to bite - hopefully in a staggered way.
Sync with Anuj, Anna, a long series of trains to Paris,
managed to get some work done on some of them.
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Sync with Thorsten, various ad-hoc calls, admin,
lunch, marketing content call, catch-up with Naomi, Pedro
Eloy, final gasp of E-mail.
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Up earlyish, played with kids, All Saints, lead
music group with Laura, communion service. Home for pizza
lunch.
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Bid a fond farewell to T & S & family.
Set too applied slugging: binge watching Silo with H.
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Up early, played with the kids, caught up with
T&S, out to All Saints for community day - good to
see lots of people and chat to all & sundry.
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On to the park, ice-creams, home for a 2nd BBQ
dinner in one day: nice, Barnabus arrived to stay too:
fun.
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Sync with a friend, worked on slides a little, short
TTT on K8s auto-scaling, interview with Richard.
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Contract work, applied for an ESTA on and off
through the day: the app has a talent for loosing your
application it seems. Catch up with Dave in the evening.
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Tim, Suzie & kids over - lovely to spend some
time with them.
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Early call with Tracie, tech-planning call, sync
with Anuj, then Laser, interesting pod-cast recording with
Charles, lunch, weekly sales call, 1:1 with Lily.
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Pleased to see eGabriel interviewed.
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House group. Got into watching Silo with H.
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Up early, breakfast, quick mail chew. Trains
home, plugged away at some work on the train.
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Published the next strip: an interview with Cynthia, a
seeker of administrative excellence
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Sync with Thorsten, Technical Committee call, catch up with Dave.
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Up too early, set off for Brussels; worked
on train, another train, Eurostar waiting room, train
etc. Arrived, more work.
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Meeting to encourage the EC in it's Digital
Sovereignty direction.
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Reception afterwards, and out for dinner
in the evening together. Up late.
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Up early, mail chew, admin, lots of 1:1's.
H' returned home safely - lovely to see her.
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Back to marketing content, and 1:1s.
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Bella over to see M. dinner together; out
for an evening walk with J. in the heat and light
rain.
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Up early, violin at All Saints. Home for a
pizza lunch with Laura & Tyler, enjoyed that and
chatted in the sun; slept for a bit - exhausted.
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Chat with Dad, caught up with N, watched
a couple of Foundation episodes - annoyingly different
to the book: some things better, some worse.
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Up earlyish, helped E. to clean and clear the house
in preparation for her 18th Birthday party, amazing how much
stuff can litter the place.
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Got some hacking done in spare cycles (fun!), nice to
see something get pushed after a week of travel.
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Out for a nice walk with J. and M. in the evening to
get out of the partiers hair; back late, slept through the
dancing, looked fun.
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Off to an all-day meeting, met lots of
people old & new, shared mascots and stickers
left and right. Caught up with Ludovic, Pamela and
many others.
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Very hot; very delayed Eurostar back, got
to the mail queue on the train, and some hacking.
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Up early, tech-planning call: really encouraging
to have such a talented, competent and pro-active group of
hackers to work alongside.
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Sync with Lily, lunch, catch-up with Laser,
plugged away at admin on the trains to Cambridge and
then to Kings Cross. Set opposite an interesting banker
on the Eurostar; fun.
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Up late poking at mail, news etc.
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, welcome and Q&A call with
recent new-starters, admin, potential partner call. Lunch.
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Published the next strip: more experienced do-ers?
and attracting the right sort of people:
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All Hands meeting, followed by TC call, then out for
a run with J.
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Band practice in the evening.
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Up early, mail chew; admin, planning call, sync with
Anna & Andras, lunch, catch up with Laser. Monthly
management meeting.
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Plugged away at mail & admin into the afternoon.
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Out with J,M&E. to a Brazilian Steak House for a
pre-birthday celebration; delicious.
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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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