May 05 2021

So, last week was my last week at Google. I'm writing this from the weird void of disbelief where I've not quite settled into the 6 or so
weeks of time off I have before the new thing (which I'm trying not to talk about, because I do want to …
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May 1 2021
One of my excuses for not updating this more often is the fiddly nature of making sure I have a working Pelican install. I mean, the real reason is laziness, but that's a handy excuse.
"Woudn't it be great", my insomnia-brain said to itself, "If I could just check a …
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January 03 2021

I'm now most of the way through the ~month or so I took off work. Around the start of it, I made a few plans, but I also resolved to unapologetically spend much of it just relaxing, and feeling non-guilty about that. It's something I've been working on, and I'm …
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December 31 2020

My last attempt at doing the Home Automation/Domotics/Whatyacallit a few years back mostly involved buying expensive widgets, determining they are shite, or marketed at US power and outlets, and then discovering that setup and upgrades generally involved one ore more of downloading a random .exe from random websites …
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December 09 2020

So I've set both a really good example (take your vacation!) and a really bad example (Don't leave it all til the last minute!) for work folks, and therefore today was my last day at work in 2020. It's been a year.
One of the things I'm especially looking forward …
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