Btw, how was your week?

We’ve had thoroughly enjoyable time in South Holland. There are great walks along the canals and loads of lovely small restaurants to choose from. The Dutch are friendly, courteous and helpful people.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the Latvian holiday park neighbours whose music taste is bad, to put it mildly, and their ghetto blaster far too loud for their own good.

The week is always a pain in the work.

But right now, all is well.

Anthrax on Spotify, RPG on t'other screen (in this case Geist: The Sin-Eaters - for a Chronicles of Darkness cross over game).

Oh, and a rum and coke to chill out with.

Big tip is run slower.

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What ever I need to learn to get it done. Family company with me as the IT. But it's generally Networking,365 and the local MS Office stack AD etc. Then have my own implementations which I have a lot of freedom over so it's more opensource and cyber security focused.

You don't haha

I'm getting to that age where I can feel my ankles and leg joints after years of abusing them in my 20s and 30s. How does you get to the point where you can overcome that and keep running?

Now I don’t have to do leetcode

What's the new job like skills-wise?

I don't go to London by choice, when I'm sent there for work then company pays for my train fare. When I was younger I would use a coach service because it's cheaper than train.

Let's just say, I took some saucy photos of these birds in exchange for booze in my free time. *Leers sordidly*

Pelicans are weird too. A couple of flaps and they're airborne, and then they just glide like Spitfires in a lazy dog fight. Saw some kingfishers too, little blue furballs unwilling to stay still for a camera shot the damn teasers.

Thank you now let us get back to our Mummy dicks

I just negotiated a raise at work first time doing it but it was that or move to a new job so thought I'd go for it. Now I don't have to do leetcode

How... did that happen? Were the birds taking advantage? Do you still have your kidneys?

I haven’t done it in years but some tube stations have free parking nearby - like Highgate. You drive to those and then tube in the rest. Mostly only works at weekends or late at night though.

Last time I did this I think I parked at Kenley Road car park and used Morden station to get in on the Northern line. It was a Saturday afternoon so parking was free.

The best way into London is stopping at Victoria coach station and getting on a bus to Scotland or Ireland.

It rained today 😉

Thanks for the insight... maybe... just maybe I'll buy one of those and do some walking

Coach is a really cheap way if you have the time and mental will.

Spent a week on a boat chilling with pelicans and cormorants and getting black out drunk. You'd think I'm joking

Train it usually, but I use the secret catapult sometimes depending on urgency and wind direction

Drive to a tube line end station and ride. Summer bonus: sauna included in the ticket price.

Congrats on the promotion and 25k!

I'm immensly jealous of having the week to yourself! I'm struggling to even get 20 minutes and I'm exhausted :(

Calls is where I use it most, but I haven't had much trouble typing and walking at the same time, where I thought I would struggle. I'm pretty much doing agentic coding now vs hand cranking everything so I think that also makes it a bit easier to walk and type.

Even just standing up vs sitting down makes a big difference to my concentration.

Yesterday I managed to get in about 10k steps. I do get really warm walking though, and my colleagues said the same thing, so it might not be ideal right now if you're in the south of England where it's boiling!

Sorry to hear about your Dad... yeah, I think "previous generation" (aka "older") men don't like the fuss and would rather struggle on for days than get help.

I should know, I'm probably one of them 😉

How's walking and working at the same time? I'm curious as I really need to lose some calories and 10 hour days at a desk with occasional trips to the kettle isn't good... but typing? And Teams calls?

Spent the week at the coast with the wife and the dog and it was lovely. I'm back at work in 2 days and dreading it. Eirgh.