Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up lateish, played with T,B&S for the last times before they left; Lasagne lunch, photos in the garden, bid a sad 'bye.
Tidied the house up a bit; had a service at home, listened to a STAG talk together; watched a movie, put babes to bed.

2017-07-29 Saturday.

Up earlyish, finished slides, poked at a local online demo. Gave my talk.
Alberto pointed out that I missed out the great work on Fleet Commander DConf based lock-down done by Stephan B; mea culpa!
Caught up with some more guys around the place, and set off home by train, wrote a number of connection mails to join some missing dots.
Caught up with the family, put people to bed;

2017-07-28 Friday.

Run in the morning with J. back, quick mail chew, paperwork, train to GUADEC - its been too long. Arrived, talked and caught up with lots of old friends, out to a coffee shop for some more action, then a pub, then the evening buffet event; caught up with the SUSE team. Up late talking & writing slides.

2017-07-27 Thursday.

Poked at Raspberry-Pi driving a WS2812B LED strip with H. got the electrical pieces sorted out, plugged it all in, got some smoke: ATX power supply shorting itself via some helpful trailing leads - phew. Very early RPI not doing the PWM magic at all - mis-detection of the H/W it seems.
Out to Bury Gardens, babes recording a wizard movie with T., to augment with Blender at home.
Back home, got the LEDs setup & working with some cannibalized Pi 2 - did some programming in the evening with H.

2017-07-26 Wednesday.

Rather a rainy day; up late, J. out for a run, H. off to play the organ at All Saints. Bit of mail chew, home, Julie-Anne over in the evening, fine Indian meal with everyone, caught-up with J.A., T&B out dancing.

2017-07-25 Tuesday.

Up late, mail poke, call with Kendy; Out to Lackford Lakes for a walk, play & ice-cream with S. & babes. N. out swimming with Naomi B.
Becky cooked a lovely dinner, H. took pictures of a sun-dial. Played Cover Your Assets & Smash-Up in the evening; bed late.

2017-07-24 Monday.

Up late, raining enthusiastically - S. not sleeping nicely; call with Miklos; did a bit of work - Support & consultancy calls. Played Windlands racing with T.
Watched TomorrowLand with the babes in the evening(?) - some scary robots - but some great female leads & heroism - nice.

2017-07-23 Sunday.

Up early; Violin at Church with Mel & co. Home for a fine roast lunch with the whole wider family. Slugged variously, R & A left for home. Played Windlands together.

2017-07-22 Saturday.

Up lateish, presents with H. lovely pancakes made Becky for breakfast, presents. Put up the tent for H's birthday party; poked at the LED light strip & Raspberry-Pi present while H. and Becky and Elize went shopping.
Friends arrived, watched Beauty & The Beast together, put babes to bed, played Sabbtour Gold with H's friends. Put them to bed in the tent, despite strange fox calls in the night.

2017-07-21 Friday.

J's birthday - presents at breakfast, out for a run together. Reviewed a number of fixes prior to -5-4-0, looking good.
Rob & Amelia & Thomas arrived in the evening - out for a lovely Birthday dinner at Kings, all home later.

2017-07-20 Thursday.

Mail chew, catch-up, patch review, ESC call, Advisory Board call.

2017-07-19 Wednesday.

Partner call, built ESC agenda, plugged away at excessive memory usage by meta-file rendering to canvas / drawing-layer.

2017-07-18 Tuesday.

Mail chew, paperwork, lunch, build slides & projections, commerical call, did some memory profiling; always nice to spot a stray 1Gb of RAM allocated in error.
Really pleased to notice that ARM release their v8a machine-readable architecture spec/ - have always been irritated in the past to see gcc/as, valgrind, llvm, mono, etc. write their own hand-coded machine-code parsers / generators - would love those to be auto-generated from some decent descriptions for all of the modern, relevant CPU architectures.

2017-07-17 Monday.

Mail chew; product & consultancy calls, paperwork, board call, partner call. Played a little with Samuel at lunch & dinner.

2017-07-16 Sunday.

Got babes up, fine cooked breakfast with the wider family & friends, packed the car, bid 'byes, set off home via Sue's with T&B&S. Good to see the other nephews briefly, home - got unpacked, and T&B&S. to sleep.

2017-07-15 Saturday.

Up, enjoyed watching the extraordinary preparations of hair, faces, dresses for a slew of young beauties. Set off for the wedding venue, went rather slowly so as to be on time, arrived. A lovely, moving service. Off to Wyck Hill House for a fine reception - babes played quartet for light music; fine food, speeches, toasts - much dancing & chatting with interesting people until rather late.

2017-07-14 Friday.

Everyone up early, quartet practice, out for a run with J. Mail chew. Set off early to collect babes from All Saints & Soham, drove at length to Swindon to stay at David & Gillian's house before Robert & Amelia's wedding. Fine food, home & company, lots of preparation - bouquet making, and so on. Up late drinking port & enjoying cheese with David.

2017-07-13 Thursday.

Mail chew, sync. with Eloy, partner call, got a few minutes of hacking in somehow. ESC call, left for music lessons, quartet practice, dropped M. straight back to her play with H. babes at home, back for a fine Aladdin play. Put babes to bed, wired up new lounge light, bed.

2017-07-12 Wedesday.

Mail, some patch review; poked at product features, pricing, bugs, sync. with Philippe.

2017-07-11 Tuesday.

Mail, admin, more mail, commercial call.

2017-07-10 Monday.

Up early, quartet practice with H. and N. ran home from school with J. Mail chew, gerrit review, more mail. Product call, consultancy call, mail chew.

2017-07-09 Sunday.

Up lateish; off to All Saints for Miriam's leaving service; and picnic lunch & school graduation ceremony; ringing the bell as they leave - only E. left now.
Home; set too at E's room making it suitable for Tom, Becky & Samuel next week. Played with babes variously, tried to separate H's rather broken S4 display from the frame assembly for N's phone-of-pieces - nearly (but not quite) succeeding (accidentally severed the connector in the process - bother).
Dinner, put babes to bed; admired Chris & Allison's extension.

2017-07-08 Saturday.

Up lateish, cleaned the home with J., mended the hoover, worked on un-completed task list. H. swiming with Alex & Madeline, Vive playing on their return. Dis-assembled part of E's bunk-bed. BBQ, practiced Quartet late, put babes to bed. Stayed up mending J's phone with N., and H. installing a new screen.

2017-07-07 Friday.

Practice, mail, work, more mail, calls, etc. M. out on a sleepover; J. out for dinner with Louise, E. back home from adventure holiday - exhausted, put her to bed; watched Indiana Jones - and the Last Crusade with H. and N. then worked until late.

2017-07-06 Thursday.

Quartet practice with H,N and later M. Mail chew, built ESC bits. More mail & admin pieces. ESC call.

2017-07-05 Wednesday.

Quartet in the morning with the biggest three. Mail chew, partner call - sync with Pranav. Lunch. Customer call - always nice when a customer says 'Wow' when we show them the work we did for them.
Tried to get skypeforlinux audio working; seems the wrong fallback input in pulseaudio (or something) - but having many dozen Test users registered obscuring the real 'echo123' user makes testing skype audio awful; hmm.
Curious that Corbyn's 'Glastonbury' speech (really at the 'Pilton Pop' festival) ("Build bridges not walls !": fair enough) occurred behind a huge fence with watch-towers (to keep out those who didn't pay the ~GBP250 entrance fee), and he is now attacking their litter picking contracts; odd.

2017-07-04 Tuesday.

Mail chew, patch review, profile trace reading, admin. Sync. with Andras, commercial call, mail, some hardware maintenance - taught M. to install a graphics card. Partner call, dinner.

2017-07-03 Monday.

Up, practice with E. until she left for her Grade 2 Violin exam. Mail chew, prodded at this & that. Lunch. Product team call, followed by consultancy call, customer call, dinner. Picked up Josh & Julie at the station.

2017-07-02 Sunday.

Up lateish; breakfast with Josh, out to Bury St Edmonds to chuch, good to see Alan & Sue. Back for a pizza lunch. Applied slugging in the afternoon; cleaned out E's room to make room for T&B&S arriving in the UK soon.

2017-07-01 Saturday.

Up earlyish; off to Wicksteed theme park with the family. Lots of fun had by small people, a real pleasure to see them enjoying the slides, smallish roller-coasters, and so on. E. finally big enough to go on most things. Lunch in the field. More rides, laser-quest etc. Home in the afternoon, dropped H. at Katie's party.
Home, Josh & Julie-Anne over for dinner, good to talk with them until late.

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