Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Planning call much of the morning; tried to air the
formaldehyde smell from out-gassing book-shelves from the
room somehow without letting the cold in.
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All Saints, David came over, slugged variously.
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Visited Bruce & Anne, lovely to see them.
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Shelves arrived from IKEA (finally), TDF employees call,
encouraging customer/partner call, mail, encouraging meet up with
Arawa's great team; catch up with Eloy, Gokay, and an interestig
west-coast start-up. Admin, mail, minutes, catch-up.
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Catch up with Miklos & Andras; COOL community
call. Sorted out purple. C'bra quarterly mgmt call much
of the afternoon and evening; caught up with frenzy of
detailed task backlog in parallel.
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Finally got to TDF budget ranking; tweaked my
ssh-config for gerrit thanks to mst & erAck.
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes ssh-rsa did it
for gerrit.
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Transferred H. money for university food &
shelter.
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Took babes to school, CS3 interspersed with sales call
with Eloy; catch-up with Gokay. C'bra quarterly mgmt call much
of the afternoon - caught up with admin in parallel.
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Planning call, TDF marketing call; worked on
CS3 slides until late, called Pad.
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Planning call, TDF marketing call; worked on
CS3 slides until late.
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All Saints, 2m Peter played the Organ well; sang
with Mary. Bob spoke, home for roast lunch. Slugged
vigorously; picked up babes from StAG in the evening.
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Up lateish, breakfast with the crowd; got the garage
tidied up again. Worked on J's counselling room facade -
routed up the door sill, managed to take ~all the teeth off
the circular saw removing the top 1cm of the frame: which
made it substantially harder to cut with. Eventually cut
it down to size.
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FOSDEM slides, recorded & up-loaded video -
looking forward to it; set to work on CS3 slides,
talk with Simon, catch up with Gokay.
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Helped N. tidy the house, picked up Charlie,
and got to work making the garage habitable for boys:
amazingly there is a concrete floor under the dust.
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Lots of N's friends turned up for 17th birthday
party & sleepover; good to see them, tried to teach
several lads to play 'go'. Left them to it, 2:30am the
singing stopped, 3:30 - boys out to the garage to sleep.
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1:1's, COOL community call; discussion of the
color purple: fun.
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Wonderful to see the team release
COOL 21.11
today - with all the goodness of CODE, and some new RTL
functionality for our Arabic, Hebrew and other Indic users
online.
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Catch up with Dennis, sales call, monthly all-hands
call. Release material review, TDF Advisory Board call.
All Saints, practice singing.
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Press pre-briefing on COOL 21.11, catch up with Simon,
monthly mgmt call, mail chew.
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New-approach to planning calls, mail, catch up with Philippe.
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Up early sawed a barrel in half to grow potatoes
in for Father, re-arranged the garage contents a bit; lunch.
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Drove home, sermon in the car, dinner with the babes;
relaxed variously.
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Up earlyish, breakfast. Got support prepared by Dad screwed
into the attic, wire through, ceiling switch mounted and wired. Out
to visit a friend of Mum's who kindly lent H. a lovely full-size
Viola.
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Home - back onto wiring with Father; a fine lunch. Drove H.
to Durham, and managed to get her bits back to her study with E's
help. Wandered through the Cathedral, and out for a coffee with
her friend - lovely. Bid a fond farewell.
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Drove home, dinner, watched Cinderella & had snacks
with the parents.
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Sync with Gokay, TDF board calls, catch up with Frank,
go/no-go decision call with Ash, Gokay, patch review etc.
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Packed left N. and M. at home, and drove to M&D's.
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Chat with Miklos, partner call, COOL community
call. Lunch with H, sync with Eloy, partner call.
Provider check-in, caught end of the ESC, customer call.
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Sales call, catch up with Eloy, Andras, Gokay.
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Catch-up with Mike K, Kendy, Simon L, mail chew.
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Into town with J. and H. to meet up with N. for
a birthday celebration at Nandos together.
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Monster planning-call 2.5hrs - the joys of
approaching release time? Intro call for Italo, Mike
& Simon L. Partner discussion.
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All Saints; band. Pizza lunch, relaxed variously
with the family in the afternoon..
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Chewed at mail & some hackery in the morning.
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David over in the afternoon, present opening;
played with arranging Spot-It cards into a 7x7 grid with
some vanishing points ineffectually for a while before
cheating.
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Got timber joinery sorted, and glued together,
dinner, relaxed together.
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Mail chew, prioritization, patch review, some hacking.
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Durham switched to online teaching for two weeks for
H. so she could stay home for a bit longer: fun; re-arranged
the weekend with M&D.
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Various 1:1's, COOL community call, catch up with Gokay,
poked at tickets & bugs, caught some of the ESC call.
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Susan around for house-group, chatted with her and J.
happily.
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Weekly sales call, team dev show & tell - lots of
encouraging goodness being created. Call with Gokay.
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Started adjusting window frame for the garage, cut a
suitable mortice in the nice mahogony.
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Various 1:1's, catch-up with Ezinne, poked at delta
generation, and customer pieces.
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Mail chew, planning call, J. got the decorations down,
caught up with Simon L, plugged at admin, continued reading back
through E-mail; out for a run with J.
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All Saints with H. in the morning; dropped H. at the
train, home for a Pizza lunch with Hannah, Nick & Joni
played games with them; lovely to catch-up.
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Out for a walk with J. H. M. E. - passed the somewhat
extraordinary Suffolk Hedgehog Hospital: (Hedge-hogs, why can't
they share?) - and had a nice walk around Ousden and admired
what looks like a bunker on Back Street.
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Spent some considerable time adding a lock to
our en-suite toilet door; can finally put router &
jigs away after their long service - good.
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Hacking until midnight - ooh it's addictive; got
compressed deltas almost working with zlib - lots of
bandwidth and CPU savings left & right I hope.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
