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Life Progress with getting the flat renovated is glacial.

Life Emotions ran predictably high on the 25th and beyond and I frequently totally failed to deal with the little man.

Had a(nother) baby Moved house Wrote a weekly blog Monday: Xmas swim – 6.49mi at 8:20/mi Wednesday: Beverley hills – 6.80mi at 7:29/mi Saturday: Beverley bogs – 8.70mi at 8:16/mi

Life We had a plumber out to fix the hot water.

Life Survived my first solo Wednesday with the kids.

Life We got some light shades up in the flat and it immediately feels less like a prison.

Life I don’t know why I’m consistently surprised that I have to have to build everything that comes from IKEA, right down to the dolls house we got for the little man.

Life Started my second block of shared parental leave and took the kids to Beverley so that bae could go for a meal in honour of her aunt’s 60th.

Life From memory, I struggled to get out of work mode when I went on leave with the little man a few years ago.

Life Think we might have found a way forward with an architect.

Life I used up some going-out-of-date holiday at the beginning of the week to hang out with Bae and baby girl.

Life Why was the man in her hair?

Blog.

Work It’s impressive how quickly I can get used to doing very little and my mind and body forcefully rejected the notion of work for a while post-merrineum (errr, what happened to hyper-indungence, sofa club and endless free childcare?).

Work I spent most of the working week misunderstanding what min-aspect-ratio was doing in a sizes attribute on an img tag.

Work Had another skirmish with iOS Safari trying/failing to figure out why html audio elements intermittently stop playing.

Work I paired on some improvements to our frontend component library, Cardigan.

Life have baby fix alignment of checkmark on iOS We have a girl. 3.7kg.

Life Seems like colic is going to be a thing again.

Work I got a blisteringly fast new machine at work and I'm wondering how I lasted so long without it, not least because it doesn’t make my legs alarmingly hot when I have more than two tabs open in Chrome.

Work I picked off some ‘quick win’ tasks from the backlog in order to feel like I was getting somewhere without putting my severely limited mental resources under undue stress.

Work Did the first bit of half-decent sort-of new feature development work I’ve managed in a while.

Work Not convinced I achieved anything.

Work I made it in to the office for the first time in a while.

Work I put together an A/B test for whether linking to a comic series or an individual comic resulted in more views of individual comics overall.

Work All in all I felt more effective than I have recently.

Work Work proper was business as usual.

Work I didn’t really reap the productivity rewards I’d hoped for from a week sponging off bae’s parents.

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Work I’d normally have felt more existential dread about a morning in departmental communication training but that was largely staved off by exhaustion (so it’s not all bad).

Work I think I’ve finally got the Google Analytics/Tag Manager monkey off my back.

Work I made some buttons less shameful.

Work Wrote a Playwright test for expected behaviour with a page’s JavaScript turned off to prevent a regression that was only previously being caught (by chance) with pa11y.

Work I met the creator of the lobotomised owl css selector.

Work We started getting real with Visual Story designs.

Work We started building Visual Story prototypes, initially knocking something together as quick as possible, then getting real with how it might all work hooked up to Prismic.

Work I boiled down the three main ways we achieve spacing into a Codepen and went through it with our UX designer.

Work We came up with a straightforward direction for dealing with inter-component styles that feels like it might have legs.

Work I never quite got going this week.

Work I felt the darkness creeping in when the designs shifted again and I was struggling to see a sane way through.

Work We started the content modelling for some of the Visual Story work.

Work Wasn’t at work for the week, but dipped in for news about what, to the casual observer, has appeared to be a hugely drawn out and shambolic high-level OD process.

Life We had an interior designer round at the beginning of the week.

Life Monday 9:20: impacted wisdom tooth removal.

Life I got through the last of my dental escapades and no longer feel like I want to remove my head altogether.

Life I caught up with an old pal I’ve not seen in approximately three years.

Life It’s taken every shred of my resolve not to shout, ‘STOP SHITTING YOURSELF’, at the little man.