Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Interrupted sleep; bid a fond 'bye in the morning, drove home. Went shopping with J. slugged around trying to fix this and that around the house. Binge watched Jack Ryan with J.

Slept poorly, H. not well . Out to the Quaker meeting in the morning with Dad, M & E to setup tables. Home for some lunch.
Parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary dance and party in the evening - lovely to catch-up with the wider family, enjoy some fine food. Back to M&D's for more evening celebration. A wonderful blessing to have a faithful, stable family.

Up late, shreddies & bacon sandwiches; packed and drove north to see M&D. Greggs on the way. Set too sorting through bottles for the party, moving tables etc. R&A&tribe arrived in time for dinner.

Up lateish, breakfast, presents, did some lego assembly with E. Lunch, chat with H. took the babes to the park to learn to cycle & scoot with H. and M.
Played games, slugged about happily. Fine dinner. Collected M's phone from the play-ground late at night together.

M&D left earlyish, with S&C&A&J leaving a little later; lovely to spend time with them all. Packed, tidied, set off to R&A's. Got there, fine dinner, played games.

Boxing day, breakfast, B&A left earlyish. Out for a walk with the rest of the family along the nearby dyke. Back for a lateish lunch. Played games, watched Your Christmas or mine, did some sketching games, with J. & E. - worked on an tougher doughnut puzzle. Browsed food, chatted variously.

Up at a reasonable time, E. up since six - stocking opening action. Breakfast, off to All Saints - H. played the organ, and I fiddled with the stops.
Home, S&C&A&J arrived snacks, then fine Christmas roast dinner, break for present opening before Christmas pudding & feast of deserts.

Off into town to do some last minute shopping: located the elusive white toblerone for J. - back for lunch with B & A arriving.
H. played organ for the crib service.
Deep holiday mode, puzzling action with the family - a fine picture of York Minster & the shambles.

Up earlyish, out for a run in the rain with J. Got to E-mail, while Dad watched Colin Furze - fun, welcomed Anna, marvelled at the nearly 90 QA position applicants we've had in under a week. H. over to Christina's.
Leo dropped by with cookies, Tessa's mum came over to pick her up, had a chat; Dinner. Neil around for a chat.

Admin, mail, calls with Andras, sync with Noel, more admin, call with Lars too, review with Gokay - finally complete. Parents out to see Grant & Anne, Tessa around in the evening for a sleepover with N.

Project planning much of the day; end of year All Hands call and summary at midday. Long planning call with Andras, and review. Parents arrived, catch up with them in the evening.

Sync with Kendy & estimation bits, worked on reviews until late, with more admin & misc. tasks.

Planning call, interview, drove to the Bedford lodge, another interview, back call & offer on a Project Manager role, worked late.

All Saints in the morning, Peter on organ, helped to re-organize the church for the band concert in the evening. Fine pizza lunch & snooze in front of the football.
Dropped Sade to the station, picked up a frozen M. J. out to rescue David from a breakdown, played and sung in the Carol Service - with the Newmarket Town Band. Catch up with Chris & Robert, bed.

All Saints Christmas open day in the morning, lots of flower arrangers making the church beautiful for Christmas, managed to get some work done in spaces.
2022-12-16 Friday
- Call with Lars & Andras, mail chew, dug through the admin backlog. Sync with Simon. Men of Faith Christmas Dinner in the evening at a local pub.
2022-12-15 Thursday
- Up early, dropped H. to the station; catch-up with Miklos, caught the end of the COOL community call, lunch, catch up with Andras, review with Tor, mail & admin.
2022-12-14 Wednesday
- Up early, breakfast on the move, eventually found the concealed entrance to the venue. Worked on improving my German: sinn - sense, stiftung - foundation, sinnstifting - meaningfulness. Good meetings, delayed flight, out for dinner with some of the team, airport. Drove home around the under-construction M25 - bed at 3am.
2022-12-13 Tuesday
- Up early to get E. off to school, so J. could lie-in, review with Kendy, booked more travel to Univention Summit, FOSDEM, parking for Gatwick (trains on strike), and drove south and caught a plane.
2022-12-12 Monday
- Planning call, reviews with Mike, Pranam, TDF catch-up, sync with Michael, Christopher & Cor.
- Minuted All Saints PCC meeting until rather late.
2022-12-11 Sunday
- All Saints, roast lunch, rested variously, read the news, calculated cost per mile for the Leaf, and realized we need Economy 7 electricity and to charge at night to make it work well.
2022-12-10 Saturday
- Up earlyish, off to see B&A, had a lovely lunch. Picked up Nissan Leaf - our first battery car, interesting times. Home - played with the babes - N. and E. while H. and M. were out in Cambridge at a comedy act.
2022-12-09 Friday
- Mail chew, admin, reviews, catch up with Gokay, more annual reviews until late. H. baby-sat A. at our house, watched Home with her.
2022-12-08 Thursday
- Catch up with Miklos & Andras, worked on annual reviews variously.
2022-12-07 Wednesday
- Early call on bibliography design; chat with a friend ; weekly sales call, good to have Mazin around.
- Lunch, and into Cambridge, met up with Naomi & visited Claire College conference facilities, back for some marketing discussion, then a C'bra Christmas Party at The Boot in Histon. Missed the babes Ely Cathedral carol concert sadly.
2022-12-06 Tuesday
- Sync with Kendy, review with Pedro, catch-up with Simon N, Pod Point installed to charge electric car.
2022-12-05 Monday
- Planning calls, partner call, ISO catch-up, sync with Philippe. Travel to Susan Allison's licensing as a Vicar in Ipswich - a good evening out with J, nibbles, home on bus with the church.
2022-12-04 Sunday
- All Saints, shared Christmas'y lunch at church - fewer people there than last time oddly. Home.
- Watched The Big Short with M. (studying economics): "I want you to short everything that guy has touched".
- Out to see James, Kate & Penelope in the evening with H. while the babes were at StAG - really nice to see them.
2022-12-03 Saturday
- Helped get a birthday cream-tea lunch for Mary Rogers; for her rather advanced 90+ birthday, lovely to see her.
- Relaxed, watched Your Christmas or Mine with E. surprisingly fun.
2022-12-02 Friday
- Up early, off to swforum.eu event - Open Source Workshops for Computing and Sustainability; interesting. Met lots of old friends.
- A stand-up lunch, more sessions, Eurostar home - mercifully on-time. Met a group of interesting hacker-types on the train: fun.
2022-12-01 Thursday
- Early set of trains to Brussels, arrived rather later - dark. What is it about hotel lighting that is so dingy these days (?) perhaps economising on electricity or bulbs. Plugged away at E-mail and admin until late.
2022-11-30 Wednesday
- Mail chew, call with Rash & Kendy, then a partner, Miklos, Eloy etc.
2022-11-29 Tuesday
- Mail chew, partner call, catch up with Kendy, worked on annual reviews, poked at some customer proposals.
- Add a brush to insulate the back-door which has an inexplicable draft coming from (whom knows where) in the sealed room beyond it, perhaps it helps.
2022-11-28 Monday
- Early morning partner call; mail chew, planning call. Lunch with H. marketing call, mail.
2022-11-27 Sunday
- All Saints, played Beckie's guitar reasonably badly with Peter on Organ & Piano and H. singing. Robert & family over for a pizza lunch with Emily too. Slept awkwardly in a chair with J. into the evening, then couldn't sleep.
2022-11-26 Saturday
- J. off to Becka's wedding in Wales early with H. and M. - N. out into Cambridge too. Slept.
- E. helped to get some lagging onto criminally un-lagged central heating pipes in a crawl-space; got an electric car charger ordered for a mooted 2nd hand electric Leaf.
- Did some Maths revision with E, and watched Valerian and the city of a thousand planets - lots of drop-offs but nice effects.
2022-11-25 Friday

Mail, admin, got a bit of hacking done to improve COOL spreadsheet use.

2022-11-24 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, end of the COOL community call. Call with Tracie & Julie, partner call, mail chew.

SFSCon keynote video was up-loaded.

2022-11-23 Wednesday

Sales call with Eloy & Mazim, more work on annual reviews and moderation with Andras and others. Chat with Christopher in the evening.

2022-11-22 Tuesday

Catch up with Lars & Andras, Kendy later in the afternoon, mail chew, admin, worked on annual reviews.

2022-11-21 Monday

Mail chew, catch up with Mike, planning call. Poked at some bugs and did a bit of hacking in passing. B&A out for a nice lunch in Cambridge with H,N,M. Caught up with them in the evening.

2022-11-20 Sunday

All Saints in the morning, played with Cedric, Robert spoke, back for lunch with Bruce & Anne over to stay, chatted with them in the afternoon. Watched an SAS video later.

2022-11-19 Saturday

Up, mowed verge, filled the bin - topping it with lots of mud from cast-iron soak-away drain that's been filled for years.

Lunch, David over; replaced dead Xpelair ceiling fan in babes bathroom with an improved Vent-Axia version. Dunged out U-bends with plungers and soda crystals to get house into some order.

Wraps for dinner & chatted.

2022-11-18 Friday

Mail chew, poked at Wireshark and discovered zstd delta non-compression, fixed that. Sync with Rashesh around K8s.

2022-11-17 Thursday

Caught up with Miklos, poked at project manager hiring with Kendy.

2022-11-16 Wednesday

Sales call, 1:1 with Eloy, mail, projections, planning, chasing annual reviews, all-hands call. Picked up E. from Soham, band practice in the evening.

Tear-down on a rather interesting vacuum dressing - curious, still if NICE likes it it must be good.

2022-11-15 Tuesday

Partner project mgmt bits, sync with Kendy, monthly management call, more project mgmt bits. Mail chew. Put up curtains for J.

Not entirely surprised by the amount of back-lash to: libreoffice and blockchain. Was much more surprised to get a number of 'WTF!' pokes directly to me on the topic; your ire is mis-directed. For the avoidance of doubt I'm no longer on the TDF board, not on the LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (who AFAICS were not consulted), and was not personally part of any such discussions with Etherium (whatever its merits). I'm also skeptical of asking the internet for technical direction / ideas particualarly when there are lots of really obvious things to improve in LibreOffice - that we should be getting on with. These are well known. TDF's job, in my view, should be to get more involved with spending its donor's money - working constructively with the volunteers and companies: Collabora, RedHat, allotropia, NISZ, and others doing the heavy lifting in LibreOffice to improve it. Still, probably good to be in the news.

2022-11-14 Monday

Planning call, start the E-mail catch-up, marketing call, family time.

2022-11-13 Sunday

Busked All Saints in the morning, pizza lunch, slugged variously with the family - nice.

2022-11-12 Saturday

Finally some sleep; checked-out, bus to the conference. Somehow lost treasured, wife-knitted snood somewhere along the line. Long chat with Marina - with time flying until had to rush for a bus. A long journey home - good to be back & spend time with the babes.

2022-11-11 Friday

Up early, off to meet Simon at the Laurin - only to find out we'd mis-timed conference start by an hour; hot footed it to the NOI tech-park in a hurry - just in time.

Gave a keynote on the opportunity that recent interest in Digital Sovereignty brings for FLOSS, along with the fun of aligning some of the various FLOSS business models there are:

Business match-making event in the afternoon. Wandered the show, talking with people here & there. Walked back into town - and enjoyed wine & jazz with Simon & some old friends until late in the evening.

2022-11-10 Thursday

Up rather early, quick breakfast with Simon and on to Bolzano via a delayed train - attempted to catalog FLOSS business models I'd seen - how to create scarcity ethically ? Bumped into Matthias and the large FSFE team on the train - fun.

Arrived in beautiful Bolzano, admired lots of mountains on the way, found an AirBnB & on to the speaker's dinner.

Caught up with various people, nice meal, very interesting conversation with Brian + Jennifer & Matthias - back late, more slide polish until too late.

2022-11-09 Wednesday

Breakfast, off to the conference, more discussion, caught up with some non-profit friends . Gave my talk on Documents and your Digital Sovereignty:

More catch-up, pleasant train journey with Simon, and a passing crypto lady to Zurich, started in-earnest on the next slide-deck for an SFSCon keynote. Stay-over in Zurich late.

2022-11-08 Tuesday

Breakfast, off to the conference - lovely to catch up with Arawa & Nextcloud friends at their joint booth, wandered the show floor meeting with partners, and old friends variously - a busy day.

Drinks event and out for dinner with Philippe & teams. Worked on slides until very late, little sleep.

2022-11-07 Monday

Mail chew, planning call, really sad to see another extremely talented developer - who has been with us from well before the beginning of TDF and who has served, wisely on several boards follow Caolan out of the door and resign. Thanks to Kendy for the huge amount of work he's done to make TDF better, and for the kind, friendly way he has done it.

Travel to Paris to the Open Source Experience, met up with Naomi for the Eurostar - slides on the train, arrived at the hotel eventually - met up with Eloy. Bed late.

2022-11-06 Sunday

Up lateish, All Saints - played with H. in the band, shared lunch afterwards - good to see lots of people celebrating Susan & Philips Allison's service with us before they move on.

Home, brief hibernation, back out to Cedric's blood-cancer charity fund raising concert at All Saints, H. played the organ, cheese & wine - home. Watched Enora Holmes 2 happily together, bed.

2022-11-05 Saturday

Up lateish, off to Sue & Clive's for fireworks, supposed to write slides in the car . Met up with Sue's family, and Georgina,Adrian & Isabelle, interested by Adam's cricket practice. Great fire & fire-works display, home rather late.

2022-11-04 Friday

Mail chew, updated our Product Management ranking, lots of things got done - good. Sync with Andras, some idle async & jsdialog work for calc, poked at slides.

Christina over to see H. watched Amelie; picked up N. from a party very early in the morning.

2022-11-03 Thursday

Mail, catch up with Miklos, partner call, lunch with H. Filed expenses, poked Eurostar for a refund (three hour delay and a mostly broken-website).

Positive call with Herman & Hannah.

2022-11-02 Wednesday

Mail chew, poked at people variously, sync with Andras, who with Tor got my zstd stuff finished & merged.

Good call with Hannah & Herman, catch-up with Mike, Tor, then Gokay.

2022-11-01 Tuesday

Partner call, catch up with Kendy, annual review planning, mail chew, sync with Gokay. Mail, admin.

Got some hacking in in the evening - too exciting; fixed an ergonomic annoyance for Tracie.

2022-10-31 Monday

Mail chew, smaller planning call than normal. Worked with Kendy on report beautification & some polish - finished.

Encouraged water to more sensible places on the roof with H. and spent quite a while with a boroscope trying to find where the water escapes from the washing machine from.

2022-10-30 Sunday

Up earlish, Christopher & Jenny to play at AllSaints with H. too - went well; Rick preached.

2022-10-29 Saturday

Worked much of the day until midnight on reports - deadlines: such fun.

2022-10-28 Friday

Admin, report writing & re-work all day.

2022-10-27 Thursday

Mail chew, sync with Miklos, stand-up, research & report writing.

2022-10-26 Wednesday

Sales update call with Eloy, monthly all-hands call, mail catchup.

2022-10-25 Tuesday

Catch up with Kendy, monthly mgmt slides & call. Booked travel to the interesting SFSCON in Bolzano. Worked on report bits, looong call into the late evening

2022-10-24 Monday

Planning call, mail, lunch. Catch up with Mike & Naomi. Rest of family off to see the Griffin inlaws. Another planning call, late inter-vendor call, snatched dinner during that, on to minute PCC meeting.

2022-10-23 Sunday

All Saints, played with 2m Peter, Bob spoke well. Home for lunch with Len - pizza & relaxation - slugged with babes variously in the afternoon.

2022-10-22 Saturday

Disassembled washing machine - discovered a set of coins, hair-bands, and loads of limescale in the bottom clogging things. Removed those & re-assembled.

Set too fixing J's door keeps; Dremel surprisingly effective as a mini angle-grinder, machined the Al angle to fit beautifully. David trimmed the hedge nicely, encouraged water to flow constructively on porch roof.

2022-10-21 Friday

Catch up with Mike, admin back-log, report poking.

2022-10-20 Thursday

Report writing, catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, sync with Mili, Andras, caught part of the ESC call, interview in the evening.

2022-10-19 Wednesday

Sales call, admin backlog, report writing stand-up. Gokay 1:1, chat with the Inkscape team, band practice in the evening.

2022-10-18 Tuesday

Up early, NGI Next Generation Internet (DAPSI) conference much of the day - lots of interesting projects funded. Met some good people. Trains home late.

2022-10-17 Monday

Planning call, catch up with Kendy, train to Paris in the afternoon - three hour delay outside Gare du Nord - got to bed very late.

2022-10-16 Sunday

All Saints, Sue spoke, noodle stew for lunch. Slept much of the afternoon, then badly at night: huh. Watched some of Another Life with J. interesting in places - often SciFi series degenerate into over-complexity; lets see.

2022-10-15 Saturday

Set too at J's door, drilled out sections to mount new Winkhaus lock into with some success. David over. Managed to machine suitable holes in a face-plate, and (encouragingly) create keeps from a piece of angle - much more convenient than trying to buy precisely the right keeps. Dinner together, bed early.

2022-10-14 Friday

Partner call, catch up with Mike K, catch up with Andras, admin, in-person with Simon N. Reviewed nice slides from Miklos.

TROP in the evening until late.

2022-10-13 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, sync with Andras, part of the ESC call, catch up with Eloy on sales.

Into Cambridge to get some aluminium sheet and angle to mend J's door with - and to pick up M.

2022-10-12 Wednesday

Catch up with Frank, Gokay, more admin, calls, zstd bits. All Saints band practice in the evening.

2022-10-11 Tuesday

Product / partner call for much of the morning in German, K8s call overlapping that.

2022-10-10 Monday

Mail chew, planning call, plugged away at admin & zstd building on Android.

2022-10-09 Sunday

All Saints in the morning; lunch with Isaac & Julie, bid 'bye to them as they start out for New Zealand shortly. Slept, picked up babes into Cambridge.

2022-10-08 Saturday

Up early, Rebekka's hen-party, mended a few things, and stayed out of the way; chewed through some work backlog.

Out to visit David, poked at replacing the rexene cover on his chair, and fixing a leaking tap. Back late.

2022-10-07 Friday

Mail chew, various calls, started planning the next events. Rather impressed with the video round-up of COOL-days.

Tried to start working through the E-mail backlog.

Julie & Rebekka over to start preparing for her hen-party here tomorrow, natcho dinner, watched LOTR prequal, bed.

2022-10-06 Thursday

Up late; tired - trains / tubes to BER, same plane home as Simon - drove him back home, and back to see J. and the babes! so lovely to be home again in one bit. Dinner with home-group at ours as we finish up an Alpha course, bed - exhausted.

2022-10-05 Wednesday

Up early, off to the bUm for the COOL Days technical day. Lots of interesting lightning talks back to back, and attendees. Missed some due to writing my own talks during other people's:

Bid 'bye to friends - catch-up with Gerald, out for dinner in the evening on the back of Thorsten's scooter: amusingly, apparently I'm too young to rent one - talked together until late.

2022-10-04 Tuesday

Up early, worked on slides some more. Off to the Nextcloud Enterprise Day; lovely venue. Pleased to give a supportive COOL / partner presentation - and then disappeared to our (unfortunately parallel) partner event nearby.

Good to see Eloy & Naomi doing a great job getting that setup and running, missed Peter though. Some presentations, and got lots of interesting feedback from partners & customers - including how to improve next time. Out for dinner with the remainder, and back to the Radisson with it's in-door acquarium over the bar until late to catch up with the Nextcloud staff & customers.

2022-10-03 Monday

German national bank holiday. Visited the Berlin Computer Game museum with several of our partners & much of our team.

Tram to Indoor Skydiving with everyone - had a fine lunch, watched each other learn to fly - talked with lots of people. Pleased to have Gerald, Nicholas & Dan join us later. Some amusing video.

Up unfeasibly late writing slides.

2022-10-02 Sunday

Attended the Nextcloud conference at the bUm - really good to catch up with another set of old friends & have some talks. Great to have Pedro to do the COOL talk.

2022-10-01 Saturday

Plugged away at slides variously for COOL days. Enjoyed the closing set of talks at the venue. Lunch; bid 'bye to everyone and set off for Berlin with my team-mates. Delayed flight, nice pizza lunch/dinner. Helped to connect H. to people while getting on the plane

Arrived in Berlin met up with Eloy; out for dinner.

2022-09-30 Friday

Up early, caught the end of Caolan's talk, and Miklos' content controls. Lots of interesting technical talks from various people. Hallway-track until the GSoC panel - lovely to see H. showing off her Writer / VBA testing work.

Met up at the B&B Hotel, out in the evening for pizza with friends ; bed late.

2022-09-29 Thursday

Up early. Off to the venue, opening talks, sponsor's keynote:

Vegan lunch; somewhat slimming. Various other talks, worked on slides.

Out to an equisite night of Italian pasta for the whole conference kindly hosted by Italo & his wife - a good chance to sync with Florian.

2022-09-28 Wednesday

Up early; mail chew; catch up with Kendy, breakfast with H. and Cor too. More work, off to the venue.

Community day goodness, great to meet lots of old friends & get a better feel for what the community is thinking. Pizza dinner, worked on slides until very late.

2022-09-27 Tuesday

Packed, drove with H. to Stansted, flight together to outside Milan, bus into town - got some pizza & gelato. Off to the hotel, worked on slides for a while. Out for dinner with H. and a lot of passing hacker-types.

2022-09-26 Monday

Mail chew, planning call; worked on slides through much of the day until late.

2022-09-25 Sunday

All Saints in the morning; back for pizza, watched The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with J. and H. Quick catch-up with Robert.

2022-09-24 Saturday

Up lateish, mowed the lawn with J. packed away summer patio furniture, crammed things into the garage. Out for a walk with H. and M. around Gazely in the rain. David over in the evening for pulled-pork, caught up with Colin Furze's latest tunneling together. Bed early.

2022-09-23 Friday

Mail chew, worked on slides, catch up with Gokay, calls variously - more slide work. Watched Amazon's LOTR follow-on.

2022-09-22 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, chat with Frank, sync with Mert, lunch. Andras catch-up, partner & customer call. Worked on slides.

2022-09-21 Wednesday

Catch up with Tor, sales call, partner call, all-hands, catch up with Gokay. Zstd compression held up by Android & iOS, hmm. All Saints band practice in the evening with H.

2022-09-20 Tuesday

Up very early cleaning up zstd compression to get it merged, should be noticably faster. Catch up with Kendy, long partner call, chat with Frank, Monthly Mgmt meeting.

2022-09-19 Monday

Planning call, admin, H' sent her appeal.

Pleased with Justin Welby's sermon.

2022-09-18 Sunday

All Saints music in the morning with H, home for a pizza lunch with Julie & Isaac. Watched new Amazon LOTR bits in the evening with H. Picked up babes from StAG - E's 1st time.

2022-09-17 Saturday

Worked with H. on her appeal variously; helped to build a model of anomalies in examinations with many follow-on questions; not looking very sensible.

2022-09-16 Friday

Call with Gokay, Mike, Tor, Mert, Gokay. Long overdue catch up with Karen. Interview with Italo. Worked with H. on various bits.

2022-09-15 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community meeting, Kendy, Andras, chewed the mail backlog. Reviewed H's Durham appeal with her, and took her to Ely to see Christina.

2022-09-14 Wednesday

Sales call, partner call re: (mostly) Kubernetes - interesting. Catch up with Gokay. All Saints band practice with H. and Alex in the evening.

2022-09-13 Tuesday

Sync with Kendy, surprising partner interaction positive partner project management call.

2022-09-12 Monday

Planning calls; E-mail, caught up with various team-mates left & right.

2022-09-11 Sunday

All Saints, played with H. in the morning. Robert's first service - an outstanding exposition of Isaiah 6. Tons of smaller kids too - which was encouraging.

Home for a pizza lunch with David. Slept some of the afternoon - exhausted.

2022-09-10 Saturday

Up early; read the news. Bruce & Anne over - ate together & caught up - lovely to see them. Visited the growing floral tribute to QE II nearby. Got J's counselling room into much better order - pictures up - lots of wifely nesting action; fun.

Research with H. in the evening variously.

2022-09-09 Friday

Distracted by E-mail, time with H. call with a friend for advice. Caught up with Andras, Gokay. Spent lots of time reading Durham university rubric. On the plus side, Ukraine seems to be doing encouragingly well.

Catch up with Eloy late.

2022-09-08 Thursday

Call with Mike K, Miklos, COOL community call Picked up a very sad H. from the train station & spent time with her in the afternoon. Caught up a bit in the evening.

Posted a response to recent hard to believe: disappointing trademark pieces; disappointing.

2022-09-07 Wednesday

Caught up with Tor and dug over some tricky permissions / design issues with COOL font management. Marketing call with Naomi, partner call on a larger k8s deployment.

Productivity intern review calls - an interesting crop of students & work - great to catch up with them and see what's up. Call with Gokay.

All Saints Band practice in the evening with H. - fun.

2022-09-06 Tuesday

Caught up with Kendy, mail chew & project mgmt bits. Sync with Sophie in the evening. Picked H. and Sade up from the train station - back from Athens.

2022-09-05 Monday

Up early, E. back to school, worked - much of the day in calls: planning, and individual catch-ups - marketing call.

Robert Otule's collation into his role as vicar in the evening which was a most encouraging & moving experience - despite loosing our organist & drummer at the last minute: good.

2022-09-04 Sunday

More teaching, singing, missed the rest of the family. Helped tidy & clean up variously; home in the afternoon to see the babes.

2022-09-03 Saturday

Rick taught on worship; systematic preaching is far more challenging to get right than expository preaching. Sang & played with Becky - badly missed a keyboard player.

Enjoyed getting to know our new vicar Robert Otule, and his wife Florence & kids.

BBQ in the evening. All-Saints got Talent in the evening - with a malfunctioning muck-spreader song.

2022-09-02 Friday

Catch up with Miklos, Andras, COOL community call, some more Prometheus format wrestling. J. dug tree-roots out of the garden.

Round of calls left & right - set off to Sizewell Hall for the bi-annual Church weekend away, lovely to spend some time together with the wider church family.

2022-09-01 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, Andras, COOL community call, some more Prometheus format wrestling. J. dug tree-roots out of the garden.

2022-08-31 Wednesday

Meetings all day - partners, customers, student, slowly falling behind again. Hacking in the evening - got coolstress into some better shape, dug at Prometheus format output.

2022-08-30 Tuesday

Into Cambridge to drop off car for MOT, no action on rattling breaks - Toyota Cambridge: abnormally annoying when it comes to real maintenance on cars.

To the office to meet Naomi in person & try to get her setup thanks to David, and go over marketing ideas with Simon N together, lunch. Picked up car on the way home.
Back to E-mail; parents arrived - chatted to them with the family.

2022-08-29 Monday

Miriam's birthday; planning call in the morning, got some mail chewed; H. back from Ireland around lunch time. Out for a walk in Brandon Park, then Lynford Arboretum with the family - fine. Caught up with work.

Watched eXistenZ - together not such a hit.

2022-08-28 Sunday

All Saints in the morning, back early - tidied house and made Pizza for Andrew & Fran's family visiting - hit by a transient plague of flies - annoying; enjoyed catching up with them.

Watched Slum Dog Millionaire together.

2022-08-27 Saturday

Tidied things up, N. on an EPQ crunch, M. up late. Got some admin done, tried to get new lock mechanism and keeps for J's counselling room door.

Worked late while babes watched another Harry Potter.

2022-08-26 Friday

Up very early, to work. Call with Eloy, Pedro. BT engineer showed up to diagnose internet failure: as expected someone had dis-connected it in the fibre/cabinet - fun.

2022-08-25 Thursday

Into Soham with M. to get her (great) GCSE results - what a privilege.

Internet out - poked BT, worked on 4G. Started to chew through mail; calls with Miklos, Lubos, Eloy, Kendy, Justin, Simon. Lots to do.

2022-08-24 Wednesday

Up early, waffles for breakfast; walked to and up the Montagne de Bueren & admired the citadel, wandered back through various hilly streets of Liege.

Drove to Calais, queued for an unfeasibly long time to get through UK passport control, last car onto the ferry, and drove home at last.

2022-08-23 Tuesday

Up and onwards - lots of driving to Liege, found our AirBnB and rested.

2022-08-22 Monday

Packed and cleaned the flat, oil in U-bends etc. Drove through the train tunnel to Kandersteg; further North to Burgdorf to meet Nicolas, Melanie & M. at a fine Lido. Great to catch-up, swim, dive, and enjoy company & hospitality.

Drove on to the German Black Forest for an overnight stay in a lovely AirBnB. Played Fussball & Pool with E.

2022-08-21 Sunday

Leukerbad Therme - had a lovely time, soaking ourselves, sliding on slides, but mostly relaxing in the warm water in a beautiful landscape & setting. Unusual to find so many fine, welded, stainless-steel pools.

2022-08-20 Saturday

Up late, Bisse walk in Lens - picnic lunch - lovely views down the Valais valley. Cake shop trip, relaxed in the flat.

2022-08-19 Friday

Breakfast, packed, checked-out - paid tourist tax in cash: AirBnB should really ensure that's included everywhere. Shopping, drove back through deep fog over the Simplon; unpacked, relaxed & had some LOTR.

2022-08-18 Thursday

Up late, H. and E. swam, rainy day. Sheltered from bad weather, shopping centre, out for dinner in the evening - ice-cream on the Maggiore lake-front, back via small paths. Watched Ready Player One, chat with Dad.

2022-08-17 Wednesday

Up early, drove to Stresa, train to Milan - met up with Italo who kindly showed us some of the sights, and the clothing stores: fashion. A really lovely meal at Renato Bosco's - enjoyed the Galeria, Doma, castle and company.

Train back to Stresa - raining encouragingly hard. Picked up some tea, home, watched Inception together; bed.

2022-08-16 Tuesday

Drove up to the Simplon pass, had a short walk and lunch, drove over into Italy - after re-discovering some excitingly narrow cobbled streets managed to get into Villa Anna.

Swam in the pool at the hotel; got to know the local midges. Quested for missing Disney+ vs. listing - poked hosts; watched Interstellar together.

Lovely views over the lake at night: lighting & lightning.

2022-08-15 Monday

Call with Miklos in the morning - great to have him back.

Out while H. did a four hour, open-book, online thermodynamics exam at the flat. Wandered with J. while the kids played at the lake. Lunch together. Bought cakes to celebrate our walk & H's exam early afternoon.

Applied slugging at the flat, watched, read & relaxed.

2022-08-14 Sunday

Up early to avoid putative bad weather; breakfast, packed. Set off on a >Bisse de Ro walk - managed to get everyone to lake Tseuzier too and back again - rather longer than expected though.

Enjoyed a rather excellent sermon as a family from Park-Street Can't wait to turn 50 - unusual to hear Ecclesiastes preached on.

2022-08-13 Saturday

Up lateish, pottered around town, enjoyed some time by Lac Moubra - with the babes swimming. Home, watched Jeeves & Wooster. Interestingly pleasantly cooler at altitude, 1 degree less per 100m or so?

2022-08-12 Friday

Up early, packed everyone into the car, and set off for Geneva. Visited CERN with the babes - great visitor centre and tour - but somewhat over-dumbed-down: needs more explanation of the actual physics for eg. A-level students: hopefully new visitor center will provide.

Impressed by old synchnotron - and 5m thick concrete walls - with giant sliding door, good AV presentation.

Shopping, off to Crans-Montana and the flat. Discovered the interesting things that can happen to a bathroom if every U-bend dries out and a year of ventillation brings not-so-fresh air through it.

2022-08-11 Thursday

Up - noisy city appartment living something of a wrench; walked into central Dijon and enjoyed a wealth of free culture: Museum of fine art, some churches, a rude museum - etc. Lunch in a small park, browsed shops with small girls, ice-cream, and home.

Watched Catch me if you can together, and had a pasta dinner. Foolishly read E-mail; tried to sleep.

2022-08-10 Wednesday

Up early, drove to Dover - missed the right ferry but got on the next. Played smash-up on the ferry, and enjoyed a fine view of both England & France.

Drove down to Dijon, located keys for AirBnB & went to bed late.

2022-08-09 Tuesday.

Into the office to get some internet access. Consultancy tem call. Got Mac Mini M1 installed into build farm with Yunusemre. Met David new sysadmin the office. Interview, sync with Simon & Eloy.

Packed for holiday tomorrow variously.

2022-08-08 Monday.

Quick mail chew, drove to near Aldeburgh for a river boat restaurant trip with J's family. Worked in the car.

Lovely meal and boat trip up and down the Ore / Alde with J's family. Home - internet down - hmm.

2022-08-07 Sunday.

All Saints in the morning, shared lunch. Slept in the garden and read LOTR to the babes.

2022-08-06 Saturday

Up late, admin, payments, shopping, routed some hinges in, website tweaks. Worked late - tried to live upgrade Tumbleweed to openSUSE 15.4 - a very bad idea: glibc flaked, pleased with the re-boot / snapshot rollback though in the end.

2022-08-05 Friday

Interview catch up with Kendy, Gulsah, ISO call, partner clal, dug through tickets & tried to distribute work.

E. out on an Ark weekend with its friends. Watched Parasite with the remaining babes - fun.

2022-08-04 Thursday

Back to work - lots of mail chew. Catch up with Pedro, COOL community call, sync. with Andras & Gokay. Pleased to see we had a COOL 22.05 enteprise release in my absence.

2022-08-03 Wednesday

Up early, bid a fond but sad farewell to our American family. Back to bed, slugged. J. chopped trees down. Got a basic website setup for J's counselling business. Beat back the admin pile a bit.

Alex over in the evening to practice bass.

2022-08-02 Tuesday

Anglsey Abbey with T&B for a wander through the woods and to meet their friends Sue & Chris, a fine time.

Out in the evening for a farewell dinner with the whole family.

2022-08-01 Monday

Somewhat better; T&B and babes + E. went to Roar - the awesome dinosaur park near Norwich. Continued recovering slowly. Made a wooden hatch surround.

2022-07-31 Sunday

M&D left, slept much of the day - not well; really sad to miss out on spending time with the family. R&A&E&L left too.

2022-07-30 Saturday

Breakfast, prepped for an influx of family, B&A. and Sue,Clive, A&J. arrived - with Mary Rogers. Had a lovely lunch together in the garden - celebrating our wedding anniversary and J's birthday.

Lots of neighbours and friends arrived for a party in the evening with buffet - until late.

Our family ill overnight, bother.

2022-07-29 Friday

Rob & Amelia arrived with L.&E. Rob worked, while we slugged about in the sun in the garden with the family. Lovely to see everyone and to have some time off. Babes into the Memorial Gardens in the afternoon. J. cooking much of the day. Slept in my office with J. - sixteen in the house: fun.

2022-07-28 Thursday

Poked at some hackery, added some debugging bits to the forkit to chase a problem. Submitted a LibOCon paper really looking forward to meeting up with people in person. And continued working on our very awesome (but no longer co-located) COOL days which will be in Berlin immediately afterwards with Eloy.

Tom & Beckie arrived, lovely to see L. & S. too. Trampolining, pottered around with M&D who arrived later.

2022-07-27 Wednesday

Mail chew, catch-up calls left & right; calls with interns & Pedro.

Band practice with H. in the evening ; chat with Thorsten.

2022-07-26 Tuesday

David arrived early, off into London together - long tube ride, admired the Elizabeth line with E. - out to Grenwich Park for lunch. Checked out a camera-assisted Aldi test-store: taking things and putting them in your bag makes you feel like a shop-lifter oddly.

On to the Nautical museum, Queens museum, then enjoyed climbing over the Millennium dome as a family with David, Wagamamas afterwards, tube/drive home.

2022-07-25 Monday

Mail chew, planning call, partner call, sat in on the first part of the TDF board call. Setup calls with interns, tried to clear various decks approaching holidays. Call with Caolan - sorry to see him step down from the board - difficult problems to wrestle there.

AllSaints PCC meeting; minuted it.

2022-07-24 Sunday

All Saints in the morning, Alex played Bass for the 1st time: nice, can play the violin instead. Pizza lunch. Read LOTR to babes. Cleaned up and circulated the PCC minutes.

2022-07-23 Saturday

Up; poked at mail briefly; out to get some skirting from the wonderful Barhams, great service. Home, lunch, fitted in J's counselling room, cut holes for lights.

Did two on-line Anglican SafeGuarding courses of 90mins each, less traumatic than feared - and mostly common sense it seems.

2022-07-22 Friday

H's birthday - two back-to-back celebrations of babes. Out to Holkham beach - enjoyed prolonged slugging & slept in the sun for a bit while babes chatted, paddled & played. Fish & Chips on the way home.

2022-07-21 Thursday

J's 50th birthday, babes prepared a cooked breakfast for her, presents, cards. 1:1 with Miklos, COOL community call. Assembled J's swinging seat with the babes over lunch.

Very pleasant catch-up with Miguel, what a hero - got a lot of reading. House group BBQ in the evening - good to see lots of people.

2022-07-20 Wednesday

Early partner call, weekly sales call, early lunch. CP all hands meeting, C'bra quarterly mgmt meeting.

Band practice in the evening with H. - Alex on bass for the 1st time.

2022-07-19 Tuesday

Catch up with Kendy, Cor; intern interview, lunch, another intern interview, partner sales call. Thank God for AC in the office.

Monthly mgmt meeting, Gnome AB call in the evening.

2022-07-18 Monday

Bid 'bye to the Eves; took E. to school, chewed mail, planning call; lunch. Partner mail. Slides.

2022-07-17 Sunday

All Saints in the morning with Tim & S + H. music and encouragement. Home for a pizza lunch. Got Time & S. into windlands on Quest in the afternoon. Prince of Egypt in the evening, tea, bed.

2022-07-16 Saturday

Up early, got a number of things sorted out around the house - windows insulated, tried to adjust M's bloc-blind which seems to want to cut a hole in itself.

Tim & Suzie, and family over after lunch - lovely to see them, rested outside in the garden for a while and caught up on SIL, Thailand, software, Graphite and more.

Took J. to the on-call doctor late; thank God for antibiotics.

2022-07-15 Friday

Mail chew, rescued J. from flat-tire nightmare at Tesco. Home - Miriam Harley over with Mike to see us.

Amused by Lubos' huge calc optimization blog. As always - the hardest part in improving LibreOffice is finding customers who want to make a positive impact to FLOSS by getting support; with thanks to Gerald.

Customer & Partner call, catch up with Gokay, and Jos.

2022-07-14 Thursday

Mail chew, call with Miklos. Out to drive J. for some minor outpatient surgery. Lunch. Poked at memory sharing between forkit children and their parents with Noel for a bit. Positive Bible Study group in the evening.

2022-07-13 Wednesday

Mail chew, holding the fort for Eloy in sales: fun. Dev show & tell from most of the team at lunch-time, with some hack-week news too - great to see the good things people have been working on.

2022-07-12 Tuesday

Mail chew, catch-up with Lubos & Quikee, 1:1 with Kendy, poked at internship opportunities, met with Philippe & signed off 2021 accounts.

Dinner, J. out to a BBQ - caught up with some pending sales work late.

2022-07-11 Monday

Mail chew - great buckets of it of rather mixed quality. Planning call, good to have Kendy back. Plugged away at admin, curious TDF board call.

2022-07-10 Sunday

Played at All Saints with H. in the morning. Home, story, slept exhaustedly on the sofa for much of the afternoon. Watched Tomb Raider with the babes, early bed.

2022-07-09 Saturday

Off as a family to Lowestoft - lovely meal with B&A at Iconic. Wandered the charity shops a bit, walked to Ness Point via a furniture showroom. Home.

2022-07-08 Friday

Sync with Eloy. Mail chew, quick lunch, drove into Cambridge, lunch-time talk for Hills Road students on skills needed for a career in Software Engineering:

David over for mexian food in the garden, attacked the hedge and various trees together to get them a bit under control.

2022-07-07 Thursday

Catch up with Andras, COOL community call, pain in the neck still; bisected a rendering problem out of calc at some length. Estimation, etc.

Call with Emiliano; pleasant Bible study group in the garden in the evening.

2022-07-06 Wednesday

Sales call with Eloy, good to get back to that. Spent some time debugging sheet geometry building in online, chased and reviewed various patches, caught up with old mail.

2022-07-05 Tuesday

Mail chew; chat with Tor, catch up with Mert; poked at some LibreOffice tickets and code.

Watching these home videos of ammunition dumps exploding through glass windows gives me the creeps: the Halifax Explosion ended up with buckets full of eyes, after glass window fragments damaged so many watching the show from indoors.

Spent some time filling the skip with unwanted bits of junk & foliage with J. Managed to fall off a fatigued aluminium ladder while cutting the hedge: and survived with bruises - thank God. Ladder a write-off.

2022-07-04 Monday

Mail chew, planning call, patch review. Lunch with H. and M.

If you know someone interested in promoting FLOSS and helping Collabora to build a business that can sustain and grow its contribution who has skills in marketing, and is capable of working with hacker-types ? please do direct them to our new a marketing role.

Announced our hack-week internally - though we have to do this in a staggered way to keep full-service for customers, and some are on holiday.

2022-07-03 Sunday

All Saints in the morning (school leavers service), H. on piano; home for a chicken salad in the garden; missed Laura. Took M. and N. to StAG / punting, watched Snatch with H. picked up babes, bed.

2022-07-02 Saturday

Mihai and team worked on getting trimming up around our un-rendered house facade; and the surfaces smoothed out; looking lovely.

J&H. out to get flooring, did misc. admin, booked home in Italy for some days in the summer - looking forward to a break.

A chunk of maths revision with E. interesting how the algebra bit^wwet-rots with time and other subjects. Emily over for dinner, watched some Man vs. Bee.

2022-07-01 Friday

Admin, continued working back through mail. Took E. and her friends to an escape-room in Cambridge and went to see David. Back for pizza dinner & rest. E's friends around for a sleepover.

Mihai & team arrived early, got them setup - lovely job plastering room in a day.

Pleased to see TheRegister write up the new CODE 22.05 release.

2022-06-30 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, partner call, COOL community call bits, call with Philippe & an old friend.

Today Collabora's app-store experiment with LibreOffice Vanilla was ended. In time we will write up and publish the data more widely, make final donations to TDF and as/when sensible finish up some Mac work in due course. Many thanks to all those who worked hard over the years to get LibreOffice into many app-stores - you rock. Of course - you can still get Collabora Office for your Mac, and help to support FOSS development that way.

2022-06-29 Wednesday

Slide work with Eloy much of the morning.

Really pleased to see so much work from the team, and the wider community released as Collabora Online 22.05 - a first cut of our next round of development work around the next-generation Collabora Online - quicker, slicker, better, prettier and more.

Partner Council - really good to catch up with and get feedback from our partners - companies making awesome things happen in the world of FLOSS.

Community & partner call later. Sync with Miklos.

Band practice early with H. in the evening, Beckie's birthday.

2022-06-28 Tuesday

Mail, team testing session; marketing review, Partner Council slide review late in the evening.

2022-06-27 Monday

Mail chew, new-look, quicker planning call; missed Gokay. Patch review, dentist appointment & then TDF board call - the Dentist was fun - a new chap.

2022-06-26 Sunday

All Saints, played with the band. Home for a pizza lunch. Read to the babes a bit, Chris, Leanna & Annabelle over to see us for a bit and borrow some tools. Enjoyed the sun together.

2022-06-25 Saturday

Up lateish; pottered around - strimmed some things with birthday present. David over for lunch, relaxed for a bit, sawed bits off door corners so they opened more fully & safely & painted them up.

2022-06-24 Friday

Mail chew, tried to catch up ineffectively with the backlog. Went to see M. at her Prom - looking lovely, and smiley in a pretty yellow dress from Amelia. Natchos for diner, hunted for H. at a choice of railway stations. Collected M. from a sleep-over via McDonalds, bed too late.

2022-06-23 Thursday

Up early, breakfast, took babes to school; worked around the breakfast table happily. Took Eloy, Miklos & Andras to Stansted.

Mail chew; caught up with family.

2022-06-22 Wednesday

Up early; took babes to school; into Cambridge. More meeting action, catch-up with Caolan over lunch. Lots more working through of topics, round-up. Back to Newmarket for a dinner at Unico, slugged in the evening together variously.

2022-06-21 Tuesday

Into Cambridge to the office for meetings for much of the day - lovely to have an in-person meet again. Chewed over the strategic issues together, lunch & back to work.

Out for a wander through Cambridge, punting, fine steak dinner (met Tashie), drove home via the office. Up late.

2022-06-20 Monday

Mail chew, catch-up with admin & slide prep. M. home - getting to the end of exams. Out shopping with Eloy to stock up for the team's arrival.

Caught up with Eloy in the garden, BBQ, picked up Miklos & Andras together from Stansted. Kendy arrived late.

2022-06-19 Sunday

Up early, into town, breakfast in the castle court, enjoyed choir practice and some quiet prayer in the Cathedral. Off to see H. before heading to Kings Church Durham having a baptism service in the student union for one of H's friends. Lovely service.

Lugged more baggage to the car, lunch at Hatfield, met with Elize. Bid a fond 'bye to H. drove to my parents. Lovely tea, cake, presents, swinging seat construction, too short: drove home.

Met up with the babes & Eloy.

2022-06-18 Saturday

Into Durham, via Tesco for breakfast: amazed to see a Deliveroo chap (presumably) delivering Tesco cafe breakfasts. Got some picnic food. Off to see H.

Had a very lovely time catching up with Mark Miller at the Whitechurch pub; a ~twenty year gap gives a lot to catch up on.

On to Wharton Park to meet up with Chris & Joy, S&E. enjoyed some fine views, good company, a birthday picnic. Wandered back to H's room, did some work with her before heading to Newcastle for a lovely dinner & catch-up with them. An encouraging branch of the wider family.

2022-06-17 Friday

Caught up with R&A&boys in the morning, got R' setup to work. Quick packing and set off to Ilkley with J. for a birthday/20th' anniversary trip: fun. Caught up with Auntie Nicky, on to Durham. Met up with H. lovely to see her - out for some Thai food.

To the hotel, enjoyed the nearby pool / spa.

2022-06-16 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, plugged away at bug-fixing a particularly nasty delta related race around versioning tiles, cancellation and more - finally nailed it. Catch up with Andras, caught the end of the ESC.

Rob & Amelia arrived with the boys after dinner. Caught up with them happily.

2022-06-15 Wednesday

Sales call with Eloy, helped David S move some giant perlings for his attic conversion with some friends. Finished the sales call. Catch-up with Frank & Gokay.

Worked on some delta cache management pieces - cutting down the number of FIXMEs that are left and scaling the delta cache with the user count in a document.

2022-06-14 Tuesday

E's birthday - presents at breakfast. Mail chew; 1:1 with Kendy, planned in-person mgmt meeting, updated projections. Booked hotel room.

2022-06-13 Monday

Mail chew, planning call, marketing catch-up, partner call. Dinner. Minuted a busy PCC meeting in the evening.

2022-06-12 Sunday

Up, brief scripture & reflection from David, sung a song, drove to Dedham for a fine walk in the forest. Enjoyed lunch together, and David McGrath kindly drove me & Simon back.

Lovely to see the family again; tea with David in the garden; watched the end of a movie, bed early.

2022-06-11 Saturday

Up earlyish, English Breakfast at the quay, caught a small ferry across the river stour, and walked for some hours around a rather fine piece of English countryside. Lunch watching a view over the river, lots of interesting conversation - back to base. Out for a Turkish dinner.

2022-06-10 Friday

Packed for the mens walking weekend.

As TDF changes its approach to app-store packaging I thought it would be worth taking some time to look back and try to thank everyone that has done such excellent work over the years. I hope I didn't miss anyone - though of course I have several Linux packaging heros that are (arguably) not per-se app-store packagers I had to miss out: Rene, Petr, Fridrich and no doubt more.

David picked me up, collected Simon N too, off to Harwich to stay in an old fire-station with Men of Faith from All Saints. Chatted happily, enjoyed Beckie's cake, walked along the shore, fish & chip supper; up late.

2022-06-09 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call. Lunch, ESC call. Took M. to the doctor's.

Chased a nasty delta crasher - obviously each tile could only be compressed / delta'd once - it would be madness to have the same tile listed twice. Except - we do sometimes: added lots of assertions; fixed that. Lovely Ubisan stack trace dumping fixage from Andras pointed at exactly the problem immediately - lovely. Faster, and better too.

2022-06-08 Wednesday

Dropped babes to school, mail chew, sales call with Eloy, debugged a few more issues with 22.05 while editing.

Helped M. with some physics, abortive band-practice: not here at the weekend, worked late. Poked at Ubisan to find out how to encourage it to print traces more reliably on detected badness.

2022-06-07 Tuesday

Planning call; mail chew - got my blog re-located finally to https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael after something of a hiatus caused by the demise of people.gnome.org - that lets me continue to be a dinosaur and generate RSS manually and so on.

Why is it always at the very end of the day, when I need to quit and emerge from my lair - that I'm most productive: in the 'stolen time' from my family? Perhaps this is the secret sauce behind the four day week ?

2022-06-06 Monday

Thought this was a bank holiday, but apparently wrong. Posted things, returned a substantial wrecking bar of the wrong length. Collected medicine for M.

Played at Barry Bushel's funeral & caught up with friends & family afterwards.

Home, chat with Kendy. Finally managed to catch the focus loss bug on save that drives me up the wall in 22.05. Mail chew.

2022-06-05 Sunday

All Saints in the morning; Mary Rogers home for lunch, back in the afternoon for a Jubliee celebration - talked to lots of interesting people popping past by the church until late .

Watched Jack Ryan with the babes bed early.

2022-06-04 Saturday

Up late, scraped back & painted some windows with J. The profound annoyance of wooden windows! prolly need to turn them to plastic with wood-hardener over time or something.

Watched Passengers with the babes, implemented some bandwidth measurement for the deltas work in the evening - encouraging improvements for cool 22.05.

2022-06-03 Friday

Mail chew, admin. Sue & Clive over in the afternoon, lovely to catch up with them. Lazed in the garden together for a while before playing games indoors together.

2022-06-02 Thursday

Caught up with Miklos, COOL community call, misc. meetings in the afternoon. Catch-up with Philippe. Fun catch-up with Sean in the evening interrupted by a Kebab delivery - reading LOTR together in the evenings.

2022-06-01 Wednesday

Sales & Marketing call with Eloy. Some user feedback & Product Mgmt ranking pieces.

2022-05-31 Tuesday

Catch up with Kendy, N. out to a party. Distracted by some performance hacking fun - made delta-generation very much faster, spent a while reading hotspot profiles.

2022-05-30 Monday

Planning call much of the morning; catch up with Sophie, CRM call with William, Andras, Eloy. Partner call, out for a run with J. part of a TDF board call.

2022-05-29 Sunday

All Saints, new Vicar announced; home for pizza and some slugging. Watched Meet the Parents with the babes, bed.

2022-05-28 Saturday

Some code review; played with diamond concrete grinder trying to avoid silicosis, loss of eyesight & hearing loss concurrently with some trouble.

Helped J. in the garden removing hedge stumps, with our neighbour Russell's help.

2022-05-27 Friday

Mail chew; poked at profiles. Catch up with Noel, positive catch-up with Frank, interesting times.

2022-05-26 Thursday

Sync with Miklos, COOL community call, Lunch. Plugged away at some profiling action - pushed some low hanging fruit - always nice to find and fix.

Helped J. dig a giant root from the hedge out.

2022-05-25 Wednesday

Took babes to school; sales call with Eloy, picked up Miriam from school; lunch with N. too.

Sync with Ash & Tor on chroot & file management for fonts. Plugged away at adapting deltas to unit tests.

All Saints band practice; merged deltas - lets see what testing shows.

2022-05-24 Tuesday

Sync with Kendy; ISO 9k1/27k1 call with Hannah & Herman. Lunch.

Admin; long catch-up call with Eloy.

Reading LOTR to the family in the evening - fun. Worked on Deltas a bit - got another chunk of code merged with them disabled.

2022-05-23 Monday

Took M. to a GCSE, mail chew, planning calls, M. dropped home. Lunch with N. too.

Mail chew, some research, poked at build issues; turns out having the latest libstdc++ from gcc is really important for clang.

Whiteboard turned out to be a hit with E. who covered it with comic drawings.

2022-05-22 Sunday

All Saints, played, back for pork stew lunch. Lazed in the sun in the garden, under a shade-sail in J's lap - lovely. Watched Walter Mitty in the evening.

2022-05-21 Saturday

Had a fine time at David's helping with the guttering; hopefully sealed everything up and replaced this & that nicely. Lunch, had a go at holly-tree trimming up a ladder together.

Home, put up a white-board, had a chat with H.

2022-05-20 Friday

Mail chew; catch-up with Andras, conference paper submission. Worked on deltas happily.

2022-05-19 Thursday

Mail chew; some catch-up, 1:1 with Miklos, COOL community call, catch-up with Pedro. Plugged away at the admin backlog. White-board arrived, hopefully in-range of a web-cam somehow - perhaps drawing big pictures is the real solution.

Bible Study group in the evening, good to see Thomas too.

2022-05-18 Wednesday

Breakfast with Marc, Sales call with Eloy, packed, more sales downstairs; bit tired; Marc did a workshop, lunch. Bid 'bye to the remaining people. Set off for train station.

Hacked in the plane a little left & right. Drove back. Lovely to be home with J. and family again.

2022-05-17 Tuesday

Up early, breakfast with Marc, off to a theatre for the (very impressive) Univention Summit. Talked with attendees, and old friends and partners much of the day.

Enjoyed some talks with live translation too. Dinner in the evening together, back to the hotel bar & up until very late.

2022-05-16 Monday

Up unfeasibly early, drove to Stansted - flight to Bremen, checked in - planning call; Kebap for lunch; calls with MikeK & Kendy, Tracie.

Met up with Marc, out for a pre-dinner together with a number of Univention Summit attendees.

2022-05-15 Sunday

All Saints, chatted to all and sundry after the service. Home for Pizza, N. not feeling at all good. Julie & Isaac over, relaxed with the family.

Watched with E. and J. tea, packed for tomorrow.

2022-05-14 Saturday

Worked on slides in the morning, recorded video & sent it out. Out to Screwfix with J. bought a 230mm Mac angle grinder and some blades - interesting.

2022-05-13 Friday

Call with a potential partner & demo. Sad news around marketing , 1:1 with Eloy, Gokay, Kendy. Out for a run with J.

Worked on slides for the Univention Summit until late.

2022-05-12 Thursday

Catch-up with Miklos, COOL community call: not the same with Pedro on vaction, catch up with Andras, mail & admin.

2022-05-11 Wednesday

Sales call & catch-up with Eloy; worked on deltas, catch-up with Gokay.

2022-05-10 Tuesday

More delta work - got down to 20 patches outstanding, and lots of other important bits merged eg. make czech. Thought it was working nicely until demo'ing to Kendy in our 1:1 fun.

Lunch with J. Back to deltas, catch up with Simon, deltas, dinner, deltas.

2022-05-09 Monday

Planning call much of the morning; started working on re-basing deltas, squashing pieces out & getting everything that will compile and run by itself into master with some success, down to just 40 patches.

2022-05-08 Sunday

All Saints, played Beckie's guitar & worship - with lots of good songs - although weak ensemble since we can't hear each other well.

Pizza lunch, slugged in the garden; watched Kiki's delivery service with E. picked the babes up, and to bed.

2022-05-07 Saturday

Up late, helped H. with some electronics, and babes with some revision. Rested variously with J. Lunch.

David over, sat outside under the shade sail & chatted, put up a gate catch, rested variously.

Worked late on deltas with some success.

2022-05-06 Friday

Catch up with Andras, out for a run with J. Mail patch-review & merging. Rotated my office somehow, fast laptop still struggling tearing 4k youtube even over display-port - interesting, no doubt a software issue.

2022-05-05 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, partner debugging session: some user-agent / poly-fill JS horror in the end. Lunch. Catch-up with Andras. More mail chew & admin - poked at Skia/PPC somewhat.

2022-05-04 Wednesday

Sales meeting, catch-up with William, setup Intel/Thinkpad - hopefully it will resume after suspend.

Partner call, catch up with Gokay.

2022-05-03 Tuesday

Catch up with Kendy & Simon, caught up with mail, fixed a chunk of FIXMEs in the online / delta work.

2022-05-02 Monday

Partner call & planning call in parallel. B&A over for lunch, quiche and home-made doughnuts. Talked for a while together. Out to look at a local bungalo.

Caught up some mail & code. Chat with H. helped M. with some maths, ordered a new Lenovo laptop to replace the ~catastrophic Dell G5s Ryzen 4800H - horrible suspend/resume problems - disappears & never returns, no logging, no errors, grim, well known & un-fixed.

2022-05-01 Sunday

All Saints in the morning, canned music, APCM meeting. Len came back for a pizza lunch; lovely to get to know him a bit better. Watched Skyfall in the evening with E. collected N. & M. from StAG.

2022-04-30 Saturday

Plugged away at some building / concreting work with E. now a rather skilled pad-stone manoeverer (with jack) - fun. Lunch.

2022-04-29 Friday

Catch up with Gokay, Pedro & Szymon, chat with Jos. Helped H. with some engineering revision on Jitsi.

Men of Faith fish & chip dinner at All Saints.

2022-04-28 Thursday

Catch-up with Miklos, COOL community call, quarterly C'bra mgmt meeting until late.

Tried to get wxPython setup on a Mac for a customer; somewhat nightmarish, sometimes I despair of the Linux Desktop - and then I see a Windows machine where an update has irreparably broken screen brightness or somesuch and marvel.

2022-04-27 Wednesday

Sales catch-up, quarterly C'bra mgmt meeting much of the day until late.

2022-04-26 Tuesday

Up late - blackout blinds; sync with Kendy (who also is a Colin Furze watcher; sync with Simon, worked on some marketing together. Catch up with Eloy, contract work, marketing bits.

2022-04-25 Monday

Planning call; lunch, partner call, poked at planning and LinkedIn, catch-up with Philippe.

Out for a run with J. Put up Bloc-blinds in the bedroom

2022-04-24 Sunday

All Saints in the morning, just me and (2 metre) Peter - without having practiced: survived for the most part. Home for a Pizza lunch.

Slugged, J. took babes to StAG, watched The Hunt for Red October with E. Rested.

2022-04-23 Saturday

Played with E. in the morning, made some mortar together and started improving the drive. Lunch, David over - chatted, fixed up some wiring for roses, removed an ivy root, sealed the garage door a bit better.

Lynn and Esther over in the evening, watched Silent Witness with J.

2022-04-22 Friday

Catch up with Eloy, admin, lunch, call with Cor, more E-mail, poked at projections, reviewed Ash' save patches.

Watched Get Smart in the evening with E. it could use a sequal.

2022-04-21 Thursday

Starting to feel somewhat better - good. Parents car not charged enough in the morning: vampire drains over-taking the trickle-charger? Took babes to school, made some jump-leads from scrap cabling off-cuts - and jump started their car with some help from M&D.

Helped to get H. sorted out and off to University - so lovely to have her around, sad to see her go.

1:1 with Miklos, COOL community call, lunch, 1:1 with Andras, chats with Jos & Simon. Booked flights for Univention Summit, dinner.

Back to E-mail and the backlog. Leo over in the evening for home-group, lovely to catch-up with him.

2022-04-20 Wednesday

Wedding Anniversary - twenty blissful years. Lots of nice cards - lovely.

To work, a bit of E-mail, poked at slides, CP monthly all-hands.

Out for a lovely walk with the parents in the afternoon at Lynford Arboretum - some fine trees, and a potter around together - must be getting old.

Chinese take-out treat in the evening, thanks to M&D.

2022-04-19 Tuesday

Catch up with Mike & Kendy, Lunch, quarterly mgmt call, more E-mail backlog beat-back.

Discovered parents' Prius battery discharged due to leaving the light on: odd to de-couple the 12V systems from the (charged) motive battery. Left it trickle-charging overnight.

2022-04-18 Monday

Up lateish; cooked breakfast with the family. Out to St Albans together to meet up with S&C & boys - played in the park together in the sun - still feeling throaty. Bid 'bye to R&A and boys.

Home, did some work with H. before she went out for the evening.

2022-04-17 Sunday

All off to church, celebrated variously - easter-egg hunt in the graveyard afterwards with the babes - walked home in the sun. J. stayed for Leo's baptism, snacked and chatted in the garden together - J. back - big lamb roast lunch.

Played with the babes; talked until late at night with R. .

2022-04-16 Saturday

Bit of wiring in the garage with Father; helped H. with some project research. Lunch together, R&A and boys arrived late - lovely to see them, up late.

2022-04-15 Friday

Up late, rested somewhat, out for a walk with M&D, M&E along the dyke nearby, shade-sail up in the garden & lunch outside - a lovely hot day.

David over, got insulated plasterboard stabilized by injecting foam behind it, set too getting the floor fitted with David's help - and some success; managed to (somehow) almost level the floor with packing pieces.

Dinner, dunged out the U-bend in a parlous state in N&M's bathroom.

2022-04-14 Thursday

Still feeling poor; out to Ridgeons to get supplies; set-too cutting out & re-siliconing the top bathroom shower seal. Interrupted by a friendly fencer - caught up with Sue & Russel.

Parents arrived in the evening, watched some Colin Furze with Father and rested.

2022-04-13 Wednesday

Still feeling poor. Helped J. with the shopping - it's amazing what she does to feed us all. Triaged E-mail to try to keep it down.

2022-04-12 Tuesday

Up late, caught up my blog since Jan 27th in a block. Still in something of a haze.

2022-04-11 Monday

Feeling awful; planning calls. B&A over - stayed away from them while trying to catch up - slept through the afternoon exhaustedly.

Late night work with Eloy (on vacation).

2022-04-10 Sunday

All-Saints, precautionary mask wearing despite another clear COVID test.

Put up Trampoline again after the winds, and clipped it to the house. Managed to give a bike to Cedric - slowly empting the garage of unused stuff.

2022-04-09 Saturday

David over, managed to get the tricky insulated plasterboard pieces above and around the door together having stuck some timber into the RSJ above it - 100mm phosphate screws are the bees knees. Ran out of foam.

Ham, eggs &. chips for tea - nice.

2022-04-08 Friday

Feeling pretty awful; took much of the day off; modulo FOSS Asia presentation - great to be back there. Cut the grass: walking slowly up & down is about my limit.

2022-04-07 Thursday

Feeling pretty awful - not COVID it seems though; worked on & off.

2022-04-06 Wednesday

Joint COOL presentation with our partner Redpill Linpro; weekly sales call, monthly Productivity developers show-and-tell. Worked on slides for FOSS-Asia talk tomorrow.

2022-04-05 Tuesday

Discovered my blog is down - apparently I had missed the notification: bother; kindly provided with a backup of the last ~20 years of random up-loads/backups/slides & blog bits from there: 1.8Gb. Fond memories of when such things were stored at unam.mx in the very early days of GNOME.

Been wondering what to do about my blog anyway - some people complain(ed) about the personal content - it's not technical-enough and presumably ragged around the edges. They want a tag so they can ignore the personal pieces - and can instead get pure engineering updates - as if from some corporate entity. I'm not impressed by such requests for several reasons:

Hacker communities are made of people - not corporate clones: people are wonderfully different & have real lives, and interests. Its important to remember that communities are not this homogeneous professional blob - they are made of diverse experiences, viewpoints and interests.

Reminding people that their software is created and maintained by a fun but motley crew of random co-beligerents can stop them getting the idea that they get a polished, professional product for free - which is quite helpful for the ecosystem who sell that.

My blog is run from some legacy pybloxsm software from emacs and I have little-to-no time to adapt it to make it easier for people to read only the worker-bee part of it. They are more than welcome to read none of it.

My technical content is increasingly less substantial these days I fear - primarily I do a lot of sales and management which - while interesting & encouraging doesn't lend itself to early publication.

Have spent some holiday to catch up, and will try to get some new hosting.

2022-04-04 Monday

Planning calls, early Sales & Marketing call - trying to make some calendar space for a holiday.

2022-04-03 Sunday

All Saints; Mike Geach over for a pizza lunch, lovely to catch up with him again; rested variously.

2022-04-02 Saturday

J. took E. to The Ark at Isleham for a YFC all-day event: climbing, laser-quest and all sorts of useful teaching.

Managed to get roller-door removed, and new window frames fitted - glazing sealed in properly this time, and surrounds added. Hung doors, foam & frame sealant all around, and - bingo - something approaching a room starts to appear.

2022-04-01 Friday

More delta work, good to have Henry helping out too, merged some of his changes to my branch.

2022-03-31 Thursday

Slept poorly; un-screwed leaking drain with H's help. Wow; full of solids nearly to the brim, after some investigation discovered the hole filled with a metre cubed bulk sand bag and some rocks: which had been acting as a solid filter presumably since construction by Pete Mathews Home Improvements Ltd. not great. Set too trowling the volume down with H's help.

Interupted by a pleasant call with Simon & Nick at Linux Format and lunch.

Worked on delta cache pieces until J. returned.

Finally solved the plumbing issue by the evening; grim. You don't realize how wonderful modern sanitation is until it doesn't work.

2022-03-30 Wednesday

Shut the bathrooms draining into the dodgy manhole; still have some free capacity luckiy. Waited for drain people to arrive.

Sales call, some marketing bits; more delta debugging.

No-one arrived to charge us some hundreds of pounds to unblock the drains by the late evening - hey ho.

2022-03-29 Tuesday

Managed to reproduce an annoying Online crash; Aron got a nice reproducer good to get that fixed. Discovered the drains not draining - things from upstairs coming out downstairs: not cool. Called emergency drain un-blockers - picked the one that gave a quote in pounds for tomorrow.

2022-03-28 Monday

Pleased to find SSL issue fixed & released.

Planning calls; came to do tax & annual accounting to discover a failed bank-pin RSA dongle - why is the battery not user-serviceable ? odd.

2022-03-27 Sunday

All Saints, J. ran Kids For Christ (KFC). Relaxed.

2022-03-26 Saturday

Building in the garage with David; got more of the next wall insulated, plaster-boarded and so on.

Up very late working with Ash on a rather surprising SSL related regression.

2022-03-25 Friday

Some hacking time at last - lots of progress on improving delta + keyframe compression and storage - nice. Catch-up call with Gerald.

Relaxed and caught up with H. who helped with the garage building work somewhere here.

2022-03-24 Thursday

N. got a positive COVID test - and started self-isolating, M. to the dentist, H. home - really lovely to see her after so long. COOL community call, admin etc.

2022-03-23 Wednesday

Sales calls, band practice.

2022-03-22 Tuesday

1:1's variously.

2022-03-21 Monday

Took babes to school; planning calls; mail chew, marketing catch-up.

2022-03-20 Sunday

All Saints; fine lunch, slugging.

2022-03-19 Saturday

David over; got much more stud-work with ply screwed to the garage ceiling, floor, fibre-glass into sections and plasterboard onto the back wall.

2022-03-18 Friday

Mail & admin catch-up, sync with Gokay. Got some cable pulls sorted out in the garage.

2022-03-17 Thursday

1:1's, COOL community call, catch-up with Julian Seward - its been too long - really missing in-persons like FOSDEM.

Debugged delta pieces, monotonic timestamps and so on.

2022-03-16 Wednesday

Sales meeting; Productivity monthly all-hands meeting, band practice.

2022-03-15 Tuesday

1:1's, slides, monthly mgmt meeting.

2022-03-14 Monday

Planning calls, catch-up with Olivier Paroz; All Saints PCC meeting in the evening.

2022-03-13 Sunday

All Saints, Kelsey over for lunch - lovely to get to know her a bit better.

2022-03-12 Saturday

David over; dunged out the garage, built beautiful timber frames overlayed with ply-wood and perfectly square. Fitted them into place to discover the concrete floor and/or ceiling is far from level; time for expanding-foam and packers.

2022-03-11 Friday

Catch-up call with Rash, worked on slides variously.

2022-03-10 Thursday

COOL Community call, various 1:1s, bits of hacking, catch-up with Peter G.

2022-03-09 Wednesday

E-mail catch-up, sales call, band practice, finished solding up the Geiger Counter - getting around ~1 scintilation each second or two on average: not very sensitive I suspect - hopefully sees more than passing muons.

2022-03-08 Tuesday

Breakfast & meetings in the morning, train, plane home again - good to be back.

2022-03-07 Monday

Up earlyish, day of meetings - interesting people lots of good things going on. Dinner in the evening together.

2022-03-06 Sunday

All Saint in the morning, B&A, S&C & boys over for a lovely lunch; got a train to Heathrow - first time back on the road after endless lock-downs. Arrived in Hamburg, got to the Hotel, sleep.

2022-03-05 Saturday

Set too soldering components, David over too - E. turns out to be the only person who can fit through a tiny gap - at least one of the family can.

2022-03-04 Friday

Worked with Ash on a Secure View talk; call with Florian, catch-up with Gokay. Men of Faith pot-luck dinner at AllSaints in the evening.

2022-03-03 Thursday

Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, call with Andras; got some hacking done on deltas.

DIY Geiger Counter PCB and components showed up: available on github

2022-03-02 Wednesday

Sales call, competitor chat, customer call, catch up with Gokay - life seems to be mostly calls these days. Band practice.

2022-03-01 Tuesday

Team 1:1's variously, Nextcloud catch-up, sales call.

2022-02-28 Monday

Planning calls.

2022-02-27 Sunday

All Saints, lunch, went to collect M. and N. together - lovely building, apparently somewhat cold.

2022-02-26 Saturday

Just E. at home - up early and took her to Go-Ape in Thetford to swing through the trees together: fair-do's - just as with the others; but somehow a decade after my first trip with M. I have more aches. Nice meal afterwards, enoyed spending time together.

2022-02-25 Friday

Sync call with Thorsten/Lothar, last gasp of board bits. Interesting potential partner call. Took M. and N. to a StAG youth camp in a rather impressive Catholic castle-like building.

2022-02-24 Thursday

COOL community call, mail chew, bits of hacking.

2022-02-23 Wednesday

Slideware, encouraging Partner Council call.

2022-02-22 Tuesday

Unusual but friendly call with a competitor. Positive virtual meet-up with some NHS types.

2022-02-21 Monday

Planning calls.

2022-02-20 Sunday

All Saints - relaxed.

2022-02-19 Saturday

Painted RSJs in the garage again - got a cold.

2022-02-18 Friday

Caught up with Eloy, mail, slide-ware. Wrote a unit test for root-cause fix - boost's default encoding for unknown languages is unhelpful.

2022-02-17 Thursday

Mail chew; got a debug build of core to chase a nasty to it root. 1:1's with people.

2022-02-16 Wednesday

Monthly all-hands. Customer crit-sit chasing again.

2022-02-15 Tuesday

New fridge arrived; unwound various cunning schemes for keeping things cool - plumbed it in, wired it up.

Sync with Kendy; B&A over for lunch, ate up lots of older, partially thawed food.

Monthly mgmt call; worked late.

2022-02-14 Monday

Planning calls as normal.

2022-02-13 Sunday

Relaxed; a day of rest.

2022-02-12 Saturday

J. out at her course, N & M at GenR8 - played with E.

Fridge compressor now starting at least, but cuts out after a short while of cooling, and sounds unusual. Gave in and ordered new fridge/freezer - hopefully for another 15 years. Put up mirror for J, tidied up etc.

Hammerited steels in the Garage - aleady rusting despite de-humidification: hmm, primed timber-window frame

2022-02-11 Friday

Call with H. debugged some unexpected oddness in her Arduineo coding together.

Fridge failed ~15 years old - (Samsung) compressor still working - soldered in a spare new relay in 5 minutes: should be user service-able and socketed like motor brushes really.

Last TDF board meeting: deeply ambivalent about the state of TDF governance as I leave; thank goodness for the many capable new board members elected.

Worked on projections.

2022-02-10 Thursday

Meetings, COOL community call.

2022-02-09 Wednesday

Sales call, catch up with Gokay; band practice.

2022-02-08 Tuesday

Caught up with Lubos & Noel.

2022-02-07 Monday

Weekly planning call.

2022-02-06 Sunday

All Saints; home - gave a FOSDEM talk on the great work the team have been doing around Collabora Online Performance

2022-02-05 Saturday

More data, continued on customer crit-sit until late; discovered lots of brokenness in their own infra.

2022-02-04 Friday

Catch up with Eloy; helped Hannah with some curious matlab programming language: who knew that the input() type function would do variable substitution by default: most un-expected; lovely to chat with her.

2022-02-03 Thursday

Customer crit-sit, up all night testing & trying to diagnose the root cause.

2022-02-02 Wedneday

Caught up with Dave Neary, now at Ampere - its been too long without an in-person FOSDEM or the like.

2022-02-01 Tuesday

Work; always feel a bit bad buying a valentines day card multi-pack. Took J out in the evening - such a delightful wife.

2022-01-31 Monday

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.

2022-01-30 Sunday

All Saints, David came over, slugged variously.

2022-01-29 Saturday

Visited Bruce & Anne, lovely to see them.

2022-01-28 Friday

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.

2022-01-27 Thursday

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.

Finally got to TDF budget ranking; tweaked my ssh-config for gerrit thanks to mst & erAck. PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes ssh-rsa did it for gerrit.

Transferred H. money for university food & shelter.

2022-01-26 Wednesday

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.

2022-01-25 Tuesday

Planning call, TDF marketing call; worked on CS3 slides until late, called Pad.

2022-01-24 Monday

Planning call, TDF marketing call; worked on CS3 slides until late.

2022-01-23 Sunday

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.

2022-01-22 Saturday

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.

2022-01-21 Friday

FOSDEM slides, recorded & up-loaded video - looking forward to it; set to work on CS3 slides, talk with Simon, catch up with Gokay.

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.

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.

2022-01-20 Thursday

1:1's, COOL community call; discussion of the color purple: fun.

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.

2022-01-19 Wednesday

Catch up with Dennis, sales call, monthly all-hands call. Release material review, TDF Advisory Board call. All Saints, practice singing.

2022-01-18 Tuesday

Press pre-briefing on COOL 21.11, catch up with Simon, monthly mgmt call, mail chew.

2022-01-17 Monday

New-approach to planning calls, mail, catch up with Philippe.

2022-01-16 Sunday

Up early sawed a barrel in half to grow potatoes in for Father, re-arranged the garage contents a bit; lunch.

Drove home, sermon in the car, dinner with the babes; relaxed variously.

2022-01-15 Saturday

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.

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.

Drove home, dinner, watched Cinderella & had snacks with the parents.

2022-01-14 Friday

Sync with Gokay, TDF board calls, catch up with Frank, go/no-go decision call with Ash, Gokay, patch review etc.

Packed left N. and M. at home, and drove to M&D's.

2022-01-13 Thursday

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.

2022-01-12 Wednesday

Sales call, catch up with Eloy, Andras, Gokay.

2022-01-11 Tuesday

Catch-up with Mike K, Kendy, Simon L, mail chew.

Into town with J. and H. to meet up with N. for a birthday celebration at Nandos together.

2022-01-10 Monday

Monster planning-call 2.5hrs - the joys of approaching release time? Intro call for Italo, Mike & Simon L. Partner discussion.

2022-01-09 Sunday

All Saints; band. Pizza lunch, relaxed variously with the family in the afternoon..

2022-01-08 Saturday

Chewed at mail & some hackery in the morning.

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.

Got timber joinery sorted, and glued together, dinner, relaxed together.

2022-01-07 Friday

Mail chew, prioritization, patch review, some hacking.

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.

2022-01-06 Thursday

Various 1:1's, COOL community call, catch up with Gokay, poked at tickets & bugs, caught some of the ESC call.

Susan around for house-group, chatted with her and J. happily.

2022-01-05 Wednesday

Weekly sales call, team dev show & tell - lots of encouraging goodness being created. Call with Gokay.

Started adjusting window frame for the garage, cut a suitable mortice in the nice mahogony.

2022-01-04 Tuesday

Various 1:1's, catch-up with Ezinne, poked at delta generation, and customer pieces.

2022-01-03 Monday

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.

2022-01-02 Sunday

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.

2022-01-01 Saturday

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.

Spent some considerable time adding a lock to our en-suite toilet door; can finally put router & jigs away after their long service - good.

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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