This week at work
I’ve been on training this week. Actual, in person, all day, multi-day training. How novel!
It’s been a good opportunity to formalise a bunch of on the job learning from the past 2 years. Better still, because it’s been small-group and slow-pace training, I’ve had the opportunity to just ask lots of questions of a person with lots more knowledge and experience than me. Super useful!
It’s been a blessing and a curse that the trainer’s laptop didn’t connect to the screens in the office so she used mine to show her slide decks instead. That meant I couldn’t get distracted by emails, IMs and whatnot; but I also now have lots of work to catch up on!
In the gaps, I’ve been trying to push a bunch of commercial stuff over the crest of the hill, so others can then roll the work down it. (That’s a clumsy metaphor, but that’s my jam).
More widely I’m on annual leave next week, so I have a tonne of stuff to handover.
This week at home
I’m trying to re-establish my coping strategies by giving my brain a chance to flick into auto-pilot as much as possible.
My current solace is video games. I’ve concluded my play-through of Jedi: Survivor and nabbed the Platinum trophy; that makes 18 now! I’ve moved onto Lies of P; a SoulsBorne-like in vein of Bloodborne. Based on a few hours of gameplay so far, it feels almost too easy – but maybe I’m just better at these kinds of games than I used to be.
Found interesting
- I might get my own version of this MI5 coffee mug that’s precisely imprecise
- This bait-and-switch on building websites with LLMS has inspired me to try this out for myself!