Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up, onto the roof to measure chimney pots for new covers, greased the angle weather-vane too. Lunch, out for a walk along the Dyke with the babes; back just in time to catch Nick Webb - enjoyed some tea & time together.
Watched a somewhat reduced version of The Matrix in the evening with H. before noticing I'm on kids work tomorrow. Stayed up rather late planning games & events.

2017-09-29 Friday.

Up early; out for a run; mail, partner sales call; Bruce & Anne over for lunch, sync with Eloy, lunch. Team call. Admin & accounting review.
Lots of kids over for a Baptism Class evening meal, review. Watched High School Musical together, H. and N. had their friends over for a sleepover.

2017-09-28 Thursday.

Mail chew at length; smaller team call; sync. with Bruce.
Continue to be amazed that Barnier insists that the ECJ continues to have jurisdiction in the UK. Theresa May's Florence speech said: It wouldn’t be right for one party’s court to have jurisdiction over the other. - which does seem transparently sensible; to argue the converse - that the British High Court should have jurisdiction over the ECJ in discussions of British National's rights in Europe would sound equally absurd.

2017-09-27 Wednesday.

Endless admin, calls etc. Got a bit of hacking done in the afternoon on time based delta compression.

2017-09-26 Tuesday.

Sync with Miklos, admin, mail, lunch. Consulting catch-up, sync with Tor, customer call.

2017-09-25 Monday.

Practice with babes & packed them off to school. Mail chew, lots of admin; analyzed some GL logs, caught up with some of the conference E-mail backlog. Consultancy call, out for dinner with J. in the evening: lovely.

2017-09-24 Sunday.

NCC in the morning; to All Saints to collect Mary Rogers; big lamb lunch. Quartet practice in the afternoon; out to a Organ concert at All Saints with H. in the evening; fine.

2017-09-23 Saturday.

Flight arrived late; picked up by J. at midnight; slept eventually. Up early, drove to Insane Terrain YFC fund-raising run - pleased to see all small girls wading happily through the thick mud, running, clambering over obstacles, and nearly swimming in deep ponds: great. Picnic lunch.
Home, some degree of relaxing; watched 2nd Hobbit movie; babes to bed early.

2017-09-22 Friday.

To the venue, talked much of the day with various people; tried to get some mail & admin done too. Out to the party in the evening; before heading onwards to a late-evening RyanAir flight.

2017-09-21 Thursday.

Walked to the conference, abortive customer call; gave my talk:
Caught up with Markus over lunch, talked with various customers and users, poked at a bug with Thomas.

2017-09-20 Wednesday.

Up unfeasibly early, coach to Stansted for an early flight to Nuremburg for the ownCloud conference. Poked at slides. Arrived, good to catch up with lots of people, out for dinner with Holger, Thomas, Michael & some CERN guys in the evening.

2017-09-19 Tuesday.

Mail chew; chat with Eloy; lunch; partner call; built slides for monthly mgmt meeting. Admin, chased invoices; built ESC agenda.
Dinner; out to H's organ practice; did a bit of hackery while it happened on unit testing, walked home and put babes to bed variously.

2017-09-18 Monday.

Practice with babes; mail chew, installed ownCloud X for demos. Lunch with J. poked at online unit testing some more. Consultancy call.
Into Cambridge with a 4K screen to seek out some memory issue; caught up with Tracie.

2017-09-17 Sunday.

Picked up H. NCC in the morning; dropped her and Elize to Katie's to setup a surprise party for a friend Home for Pizza; Julie over in the afternoon, slept a little; out to NCC AGM in the evening. Bed.

2017-09-16 Saturday.

Took H. to All-Saints for some Organ Practice & dropped her at Emily's; home, slugging variously. Took H. and Elize to hers in the afternoon for a sleep-over. Back to play with the babes.
Got some hacking in while re-watching a Prince and Me DVD.

2017-09-15 Friday.

Out for a run in the morning with J. mail chew, partner call, Lunch. More mail.

2017-09-14 Thursday.

Mail; finally noticed Java EE going to Eclipse on the grounds that a copy-left license is good for communities; good for Oracle. Looking forward to seeing how they can make that blossom & grow, exciting times.
Admin, ESC call, sync. with Shinnok, call with Kendy & Heiko, plugged away at admin until late.

2017-09-13 Wednesday.

Mail chew; patch review; sync with Tor & Miklos. Poked at partner mail; plugged away at spell checking in the evening.

2017-09-12 Tuesday.

Mail chew; poked at tile diff compression; built ESC agenda bits. Travelled into Cambridge to setup some hardware, quick partner call. Lunch. More machine poking, consultancy call, home. Worked away until late; Lydia & Janice over.

2017-09-11 Monday.

Mail chew, booked another AirBnb in Rome for the LibreOffice conference. Lunch with J. Consultancy call, signed things; more mail chew.

2017-09-10 Sunday.

Out to Giles' baptism in Mildenhall at Kings Church - really encouraging to hear his testimony of the rescue of his family and himself: from aggression, obesity, living to play xbox and being abusive to his family - to freedom, peace, a normal weight, running for charity, and with hope for the future.
Back for lunch with Julie-Anne, caught up a bit; and slept on the sofa between playing Windlands on the Vive.

2017-09-09 Saturday.

Up late; played Vive with M.; poked at callgrind profiles and threading goodness. Prodded at team-building opportunities around Rome. Slugged in the afternoon variously.

2017-09-08 Friday.

Up early; practices, packed babes of to school. Mail chew, out to get the car services & MOT'd - price of Prius Plug-in seems to be GBP 35k, presumably around the Tesla / Model3 price - of course, you get a hybrid / engine too.
Worked (on the laptop) in a nearby gym until it was done; sync. with Kendy, feature ranking etc.

2017-09-07 Thursday.

Mail chew; partner call, admin, lunch. TDF admin, contract pokeage. Distressed by the hyper-load pops / clicks coming from pulseaudio + chrome + hangouts, starting up a hangout is far from ideal with headphones on - scary.
Out for an Organ lesson with H. and Roger at All Saints - good to hear the pedals in action. Home, read to H.

2017-09-06 Wednesday.

Packed oldest three babes off to school; did some practice with E. and tried to avoid getting stuck into M's bigger 'cello for its novelty value.
Mail chew; planned the day; call with Eloy. Interview with Kevin. Amused to re-read the Economist Style-Guide on Political Correctness.
Collabora is hiring always looking for smart people - but Collabora Productivity is particularly looking for a sharp Marketing Specialist - could it be you ? let us know; do you have just part of the skills we seek: also interesting - drop us a line.
Customer call , another interview , admin. Dinner; assembled a hex core Ryzen PC with the babes - showing them how relatively trivial it is.

2017-09-05 Tuesday.

Up in the night; worked, built ESC bug stats while doing CCPAS on-line training. Booked flight to the LibreOffice conference.
M.'s first day at secondary school; made tea in bed for J. and walked her together to the bus; lovely to see them grow up - such a privilege.
Did a live update direct from openSUSE 42.1 to 42.3 (as not recommended in the docs) - apart from having to delete a number of snapshots (was unaware that they were being created) - it worked flawlessly; continuing to work while it went in (wow).

2017-09-04 Monday.

Up, mail & IRC poke-age; sigh. Chewed mail in the car on the way to Aldeburgh. Lunch, chat with Buovjaga, out for a walk to Thorpness with B & A. Back, more mail; poked at backlog of admin in the car on the way home.

2017-09-03 Sunday.

Off to Soham Baptist Church - encouraged to hear the Gospel preached & the word patiently explained & applied. Back for a pizza lunch; played smash-up, BosWars with E. and slugged generally in the afternoon. Watched the last Tick in the evening with H. - un-necessarily terrible language.

2017-09-02 Saturday.

To a kids-leaders' prayer & planning meeting at Klara's. Back for lunch with David, out to wander around Ickworth - back for a roast dinner, read stories put babes to bed.

2017-09-01 Friday.

Out to Dianne Curtis-Prior's funeral in Histon in the morning, a really lovely service, lunch afterwards; back for lunch. Switched from IRC to Mattermost's IRC bridge. Plugged away at mail.

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