Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail chew; answered a few questions at a partner webinar
by Eloy, lunch, partner call, catch up with Pedro, mail.
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Mail chew, planning call, lunch, catch up with Paris.
Sync with Guy & Eloy, chased a nasty bug.
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All Saints in the morning with 2m Peter, encouraging
Growing in God meeting afterwards. Pizza lunch, slugged in
the afternoon.
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Put up new light over the lathe, to be able to
see what's up. Helped J. clean up after mowing the lawn.
Lunch. Out for a walk at Lynford Arboretum in the afternoon
with J. and H. Back, Harry Pottered in the evening.
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Partner call, staff calls, sync with Paris; lunch.
Catch up with Nicolas, Eloy, chunks of admin.
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Catch up with E-mail, Miklos, COOL community call,
took H. to play piano for the local retirement home.
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Partner call, sync with Andras, catch up with Naomi.
Cell group in the evening.
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Up early, mail chew, positive sales call with the team,
partner call, up-beat Collabora Productivity all-hands call.
Dug through some legalese, call with Paris and Lubos.
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Out to band practice, back, mail, chat with Patrick.
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Up early; out for a run with J. Catch up with Kendy,
then Pedro, snatched lunch, then a partner call. Monthly
management meeting, sync. with Cor, chat with accountant.
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Mail chew, planning call, lunch with H. Marketing call,
Project kick-off call with some of the team. More admin &
planning.
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All Saints in the morning, meeting afterwards & chat
with Rev Robert afterwards; back for a fine roast lunch. Relaxed
with a pile of babes, out for a walk with H&M in the
afternoon to see the snowdrops & lovely countryside.
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Up earlyish, out to Ely to do an Octagon climbing
trip with M. out for a nice pub lunch afterwards together.
Tried to drive home - but Nissan leaf inoperable, assumed
I'd not charged it but - apparently not, a failing 12V
battery - very weird needing to jump starting a car with
25kWh+ in its Li-Ion battery
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Home eventually; hmm. Set too grinding out the
grout to get access to the inaccessible isolators feeding
the dripping tap in our downstairs bathroom. Watched Tenet
with the babes - amusingly: starting at the half-way point,
and then re-watching from the start.
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Up late, customer call, partner sales call,
customer call, admin, synched with Anna, interview for a
new marketing person, more admin.
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A day off! quick mail chew in the morning, drove to
Aldeburg with J.H.&E. - partner/sales call at the end
of the car ride, had to eat lunch during the call.
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Had some time to chat to B&A, tidied up a bit,
drove back via Sue & Phil's new Rectory in Ipswich -
lovely to see them; chips on the way home. Caught up with
my blog backlog.
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Encouraging sales call, partner call; synch calls, mail chew.
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Valentines day cards; J. had flowers & a new
pringles-like chocolate crisp thing. 1:1s, Nextcloud call,
lots of admin & planning.
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Turns out I threw out H's artwork material - cunningly
left in a bin by the front-door (bother).
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Planning call, worked on the E-mail backlog, talk
with Christopher in the evening.
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All Saints, band practice in the morning, slugged for
much of the afternoon.
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J. out to help at Church with open-morning,
R&A&babes arrived back from a holiday in Cypress (with
muted earthquake) via Stansted for lunch. Enjoyed some time
with them.
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Hoped to clear the day to go out with M. but
instead got stuck with important customer & partner
calls, and feeling grotty. Urgh.
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Still not feeling great; various 1:1's, partner calls,
hiring triage.
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Feeling distinctly unwell, coughing up lumps - never good.
Up late, to work! A huge backlog of things to get to - sales call,
partner call, band-practice at our home.
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Up early, a Eurostar homeward, popped in to the first State of Open Conference
chatted to Frank; caught up with some old friends & talks.
Home to see the family and recover somewhat late in the evening.
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Breakfast, and set off to the co-working space; caught up
with lots of people individually. Profiled WASM-ness with Tor in
firefox with some success - no libpixman acceleration there, and
the fall-back methods are horrifyingly slow.
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Checked on C'bras Turkish team - all well thank God.
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Out for dinner as a large group, had a spectacularly
unpleasant interaction with someone. Enjoyed a chance to get to
know Gabriele better in the evening - a kind person at a good
time.
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Breakfast, and to the conference, more standing by the booth
and meeting people left & right. Out to Le Falstaff with a set of
friendly hackers, talked until late.
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Breakfast, off to the ULB, caught up with a good number
of old friends; Dodji requested pushing my blog regularly - so I'll
try to keep it more up-to-date. Quested for an internship for H.
Quick chat with Lennart before my talk:
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Snatched some lunch somewhere, talked with Gerald, and met
various friends old and new - met up with the cool kids in the
LibreOffice dev-room, and gave a quick talk on COOL over lockdown.
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Back to the hotel, and off to Beta Co-working for a lovely community,
pasta dinner - talked much of the time to Andreas, Sophie,
Philippe and others. Up late in the hotel lobby.
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Open Forum Europe day - lots of interesting people
to talk to and catch up with; some good presentations too.
On to the FLOSS foundations dinner afterwards, then out to
the Delerium Cafe with Thorsten - fewer people than normal,
caught up with some people, bed extremely late.
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Catch up with Miklos, various trains to FOSDEM;
met Wookey while waiting for a Eurostar. Arrived, found
the Bedford, worked on slides, got some food, finally
finished slides without being insanely late - unusual.
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Perhaps it's possible to avoid the late-night
zombification effect of doing the hacking then the slides
just before the talk ?
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Weekly sales call, partner meeting, good in-person
chat with Simon N. Researched travel, slides etc. Chat
with Cor.
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improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
