Rowan Manning

Bangkok is a really busy city, it’s fun but I would probably struggle with a full week.

Driving is pretty easy in Australia (at least in Victoria and New South Wales).

Melbourne is a fun city.

Hi from a Melbourne airport hotel 👋 this weeknote’s mostly gonna be about other stuff because we only got here last night.

Back to work/normality for two weeks.

These weeknotes are brought to you by a 9.5-hour layover in Shanghai airport.

What even is work?

Oof a lot of incidents this week!

We finally got rid of the large corner sofa which was dominating the living room of our flat.

I started the week off strong by fixing the wastewater pipe under our kitchen sink.

It’s been nice spending some time not thinking about anything much, I feel refreshed but maybe still a little tired.

On Tuesday Charlotte’s mum popped over for dinner and video games, we showed her Sackboy: A Big Adventure which she’s since bought for herself.

It’s been a milestone week for the house, I spent most of the weekend Doing It Myself, putting up shelves and pictures.

We caved and started watching The Bear because people kept talking about it.

I don’t like Terraform any more, I accidentally deleted 21 of my GitHub repos and then had to spend several hours restoring them from backups.

Hello friends!

Shortish weeknotes because I’m tired and could do with going to bed.

I had a mid-week day off on Wednesday to visit my sister in Brighton.

I set up a new mortgage as my current rate expires later this year.

It was Charlotte’s birthday this week, we’re normally away for it so this was a rare at-home one.

I finally got around to meeting up with Andrew & Ed on Wednesday, haven’t seen them in an age and it was really nice to shoot the shit.

It’s my 137th week, which is special.

I kinda smashed it at work this week.

My week itself was fairly uneventful.

This week we’re looking after Areia, Estefanía’s cat.

Spoiler alert!

The stress has largely continued from last week, hoping having a little break and then not making any more plans for May will help.

The big thing this week was Euan’s leaving drinks – he’s going to the Philippines for a year and the 40+ people who turned up are definitely gonna miss him.

On Thursday we had a three-hour OKR meeting at work which turned out to be more interesting than agonizing.

I’ve been playing a lot of OpenTTD (a free and open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a 90s classic).

This week is all about the weekend again, with a pretty uneventful week.

Scott was down in London during the week so we played in-person board games.

We’re sick.

On Monday we went to Gallal’s for dinner, it’s so nice having people nearby who we can just pop around and see or have food with.

This week was fun but exhausting.

I’m very tired at the moment despite the Iron and Vitamin D I keep putting into myself.

Did you know that if you search Spotify for “mix” then it gives you a huge long list of very specific playlists created just for you?

This week it was Charlotte’s turn to be sick; I think I must have given her my gross cold.

I felt rotten all week.

Earlier in the week we went out for drinks with Paula who works in HR at the FT.

I turned 35 this week.

It’s been quite a busy week, but with the kind of weekend that feels super long – it’s what I needed for sure.

Such a busy work week!

Coming back to work was tough enough without the LastPass and CircleCI security incidents.

We had our first zero-plans day and it was lovely, I enjoyed Christmas but I needed a proper rest.

Merry Christmas everyone!

The sickness continued through the whole week.

We had our main company Christmas party on Tuesday.

This week’s been all about seeing people I haven’t seen in a while.

There was some heavy news this week relating to the trial I was going to be a witness for.