Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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legacy html
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Sync with Dave, catch up with Thorsten & Tracie.
Lunch with J. masses of applied admin.
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Up early, admin, tech. planning call, sync with Laser,
lunch with J. catch up with mgmt team, and Thorsten.
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E. passed her driving test - celebration Chinese dinner.
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House group Lent Course, looked at Syncletica.
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Sync with Dave, catch-up with Pedro & more product
planning.
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Published the next strip around legal excitement, with some
interesting accusation inflation potential:
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Caught up with Philippe; admin, chat with Frank.
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Lead band practice in the evening.
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Up early, hacked a bit on a mini URL pasting feature.
Planning call, sync with Andras.
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Caught up with some chunks of the product management
backlog through the day.
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Up, mail chew, sync with Miklos, Thorsten, Richard
& Darshan.
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Lunch, mail chew, admin - shuffled calendar to
skip travelling to London, partner call, worked late.
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Up early, off to Forefront Community Church with M. and N.
Enjoyed the service & preach, chatted afterwards.
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Home for lunch with Nigel & Jane, admired N's room,
enjoyed the company.
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Bid farewell, and drove back at some length to Newmarket.
Caught up with H. & E. bed, tired.
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Picked up N. and drove to the Eden Project, nearly at
the 'toe' of England, some really large geodesic domes full of
interesting plants. Wandered around happily.
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Packed-lunch, ice-cream visited a giant granite sed, and
sung Elizabeth Postern's The tree of life at it briefly.
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Drove back via Exeter to see M's nice student house.
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Up too early, breakfast, wandered the town with J.
happily for a while.
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Tour of the Numatic factory with N. - wonderful to see
all the manufacturing goodness, injection molding, laser-cutting,
bending, welding, assembly and the great range of products
that they build - lovely.
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Home for lunch, out for a walk to find the Chard caves,
rather a circuitous walk here, but eventually found some.
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Back home, caught some sleep, M. arrived, natchos dinner.
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Up early, tech. planning call, admin, sync with Lily.
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Drove south with J. - nice dinner together at
The Bell Inn in Wylye, made good time. Got to Chard and met
up with N. found our AirBnB & slept.
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Up early, out for a run with J. nice. Sync with Dave,
bulk admin, internal tech. call. Lunch, sync with Joao, then
Armin.
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Published the next strip with more exotic egg related
controversy and a very typical excluded middle:
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Planning call in the morning, mail chew, prodded a
proposal, lunch, sync with Laser, Anna & Andras, customer
call.
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Pleased to see a really nice The
Open Road to Freedom index, making it easier to see
what is going on.
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Finally managed to get my Apple account to let me
pay for a developer subscription - after lots of compound
problems wasting hours. Clearly I've hit some buggy
indeterminate state - still can't see subscriptions or
country information: perhaps I'm stuck mid-atlantic beween
two systems.
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Up early, mail chew, 1:1's, marketing call, finally
got to E-mail in the evening and a little code.
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Up early, played violin at All Saints, back for
quiche leftovers ("Give us today our daily quiche").
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Slept a chunk of the afternoon, pulled together
some hymns for the evening service, then lead that with
Florence.
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Home for dinner, and some relaxation.
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Up earlyish, pottered about - discovered a router
collet extension in the garage that solved my curious
not-fitting problem: nice.
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Got the robot lawn-mower back into action: now
without a garden full of windfall apples: nice.
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J. out to YFC prayer lunch. Poked at work backlog,
caught up with H. and E.
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Out for dinner to The Pantry with J. -
lovely.
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Sync with Dave, caught up with mail and planning
backlog. Enjoyed Mike's TTT on VclPtr bits while eating
lunch.
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Several hour proposal meeting, sync on new
partner, call with another partner - fun. Caught up
with admin backlog.
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Out to Wetherspoons for a Churches Together men's
curry - good to see lots of the lads
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Up early, tech-planning call, sync with Lily,
snatched lunch, sync with Miklos, more planning, admin
and estimation.
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House group - Lent course on the Desert Fathers.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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