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Some of the gear that's being shipped to Czech Republic (or Czechia if you don't please) for Border War next week.

I almost signed up for a medium account.

The weather's turning.

Domestic weekend!

So, every October or so, I ask HR at work for a report of people on my team (I have somehow tricked The Company, or they have tricked me, into being responsible for about 40 people) who haven't taken enough vacation, since we can only carry over 5 days.

The last of this year's travel is ongoing.

Home again, at least until next month.

Excellent korean BBQ is a lot less cheaty than sausage and stodge.

Off to Mountain View in the morning for 3 days, then onwards to New York.

At a work conference in Munich, which I've never been to before.

More inactivity!

Trying to keep this thing up by doing worthwhile things.

Away in Zurich for a few days with work.

Second week back, and seeing what my job ends up looking like for the next while.

First week back at work - done!

Last day of leave, and a day of normalcy and domesticity.

Not a lot got done today, which is as it should be.

I think this is the last of the work on the new house.

Sleep cycle being fucked up.

A week between updates, but it's been a reasonably busy one.

Updates getting more infrequent, so I should make it my business to do more interesting things, right?

Thge last few days haven't felt like particularly urgent ones, which is good -- I think I'm winding down the urgency level overall, and the time off work is kicking in.

26 and 27 have been days off.

Yesterday was Moving Day for small cats everywhere.

Yesterday, some dudes in a JCB showed up outside the gate to fill in a giant pothole that trucks and buses had been disappearing down for the last few months.

I have moved, the cats have not.

If you ever want to get funny looks in an electronics shop, break out a measuring tape and start measuring microwaves.

I own a sealed copy of Katamari Damacy for the PS2.

Today turned out a good bit more productive than expected.

Eating an actual meal in what was essentially a building site a week or so ago is a strange experience.

As old-house starts looking less like a house, new-house starts looking like a way better house than old-house.

Busy day yesterday (and less busy today) so catching up today.

2nd Van Day, and the old house is even barer.

Starting to move.

A simple day in one way.

Another late morning.

No photo today.

After a slight hiccup on the home stretch (a plumber having a go at drilling a hole in a ceramic sink, and succeeding against all odds), the house buildings works are done, finished, kaputt.

Skipped a day, yesterday being mostly lost to what I'm assuming were sinus headaches, but which could have been stress or tiredness or a combination of both.

My capacity to think of a witty title for every day is going to run dry eventully, so let's try this for a title convention -- protip: posts with the date as a title probably either have limited re-sale value or were boring in the first place :-) Today I…

I'm guessing it's going to take at least a week to figure out that I don't have a schedule.

Finished up in work today, not in again until the 1st September.

Finally (I am a male Irish person, after all.

Some zealous schwag-merchant deep in the innards of The Company was a month early with this -- probably giving me some time to mount it over the mantel of my plush leather and mahogony office before the big day.

Having nothing to write about but "I made soup!"

Still fiddling with Pelican -- it's got a reasonably nice codebase, but the devs don't appear to be all that responsive.

So here's another attempt at keeping a log of some kind. the last one died because I stopped having (what I saw as) interesting things on it, blogger's editor bugged the fuck out of me, and general forgetting.

I fiddled a bit with this, so I thought I'd do a no-nonsense guide to doing this.

I am alive.

I've not had a lot of time to go at electronics in the past while (mainly a combination of work things and family things kicking my ass), but I got to some of it tonight -- The clever parts of the design and build are basically done, so what's left is pro…