Weeknotes 116

Welcome to British Summer Time. I’m looking forward to returning to a more familiar work schedule, although part of me had just started adjusting to my last meeting of the day finishing an hour earlier.

I suppose it’s all good practice in case Canada moves to permanent daylight time and I have to adapt for six months at a stretch instead of two weeks.

This week I had a few bike rides around London. When I wasn’t cycling in the sunshine I was in the balmy twilight, enjoying my freedom to wind anonymously through the hubbub of the city. I love this time of year.

One of those rides was to Islington for a pint with Paul while he was briefly in town. Yet again it gave me that paradoxical feeling of the situation being alien and familiar at the same time: sitting in a pub, drinking beer, having a chat, remember this? Another tentative step back towards normal life.

Inevitably he did test positive for COVID the next morning, but so far I appear to have dodged it. 🤞

I got an email from LiveJournal celebrating the 20-year anniversary of me creating an account, and then I crumbled into dust.

In other dust news, I went to see the doctor again this week because, while I’m not any worse, I’m also not any better. It was another impressively compassionate experience which didn’t in itself get me closer to a resolution but did lift my spirits.

Unlike last time I had the foresight to chug lots of water beforehand in case they wanted to take blood, and sure enough, the guy with the needle called my veins “bouncy”, which is weird.

People at work have started signing their Git commits. I spent a bit of time re-learning GPG’s weird user interface and understanding what my options are for getting a YubiKey involved, and I think I’ve now got signing set up in a way that’ll be secure and convenient today without painting myself into a terrible corner in future. So I suppose I’m that person now.

I suspect I’ve almost reached the end of Horizon Forbidden West, so I’m grinding all the side quests to milk every last drop of content & XP out of them before I wrap it up. This has made me slightly better at killing robot dinosaurs.

It made me laugh in surprise when Elise Trouw switched to the drums during a cover of Seven Nation Army. It’s not particularly unexpected in hindsight for a drummer to play the drums, but apparently that’s what qualifies as challenging entertainment to me now. Sorry for the drum spoilers.

When I ran my weeknote template script it correctly generated today’s timestamp in BST rather than GMT, thereby paying off all the effort I put into writing it.