it's turtles, all the way down
Almost exactly nineteen years ago, in about half an hour if memory serves, I stood at the business end of a church in Oxfordshire, waiting for the future Mrs Beckett to arrive. Several aunts stood outside waiting for a Rolls Royce to pull up, and didn't quite know what to tell anybody when it drove… Continue reading Nineteen Years
I was going to to title this post “Working from Home”, but this is my life now - working from home. I’m glad I still have a job, and I don’t really miss the office environment - but a few things have started to happen that I’m not too happy about. It’s interesting to see… Continue reading Mostly Offline
It’s nearly 10am, and I’m sitting in the variously titled “study” or “junk room” at home, working. I’m a software developer. My job usually involves sitting in front of a computer all day, trying to turn somebody else’s ideas into reality. Sometimes it’s interesting. Sometimes it’s frustrating. Sometimes it’s incredibly annoying. I won’t get into… Continue reading Thursday
I have the next two weeks off work. Ten working days. Fourteen days in all. It all seems a bit giddy at the moment, although I’m mindful of a conversation with my brother-in-law earlier today, who has just had two weeks off - “I looked forward to it for ages, and then before you know… Continue reading Fourteen Days
I visited the office yesterday - for the first time in four months. A flying visit to empty my desk, and collect a monitor and an office chair. The company I work for is finally following the example set by the likes of Automattic, and doing away with the office entirely - at least for… Continue reading Ends and Beginnings
It’s Monday lunchtime, and you find me sitting in the junk room at home. I’ve been here on weekdays since the middle of March. Nearly four months now. The only places I have visited in town during that time have been the grocery store, and the pharmacy. I’ve been on a few long walks (even… Continue reading Lunchtime Thoughts
Slowly but surely, I'm losing track of the day of the week. I'm only working three days a week at the moment - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday - so my weekends have become longer than my working week. After decades working five days a week, it's a bit of a shock to the system. I… Continue reading Running and Working
It's Friday, and you find me holed up in the junk room at home, putting together another quiz. This evening the company I work for are having a "virtual social" on Zoom, and I volunteered myself as quiz-master. Although I have run several quizes recently, I'm putting together an entirely new set of questions, so… Continue reading On Call
