I achieve enlightenment on a daily basis.
Don’t think. It leads to worry and stress and other bad things.
Tag: work
I love my wifey
She leaves me random post it notes.
(Now to be fully transparent, she left me this weeks ago, when I really started working from home full time, and it’s been stuck to my desktop screen ever since)
Virtual wine tasting
A couple of weeks ago, I got an intriguing letter from Celliers de Sion. As a way to drum up business during the lockdown, they were offering “wine in tubes”-based sampling sets of 8 or 16 wines from their selection. The wines are tubed under controlled atmosphere so they don’t oxidize.
Given that all our wine tasting events have been put on hold or cancelled, I suggested this to the wine club at work and it proved to be a popular idea. We all got our kits delivered by post and we met up online tonight.
It was the best use of corporate communication channels I’ve made all week.
Tasty, too!
Hold my calls!
Tolstoy was helping me review my meetings this morning.
My new meeting aide
Tolstoy has volunteered to sit in for me in some meetings. It would probably help if he knew how to type – or at least look directly at the camera.
We iz serios team doing serios works
Someone suggested we have a “theme” for our weekly team Kanban. The first one was “under the sea”… It wasn’t pretty. It was funny though.
Update: “medieval” theme:
Update: “my country” theme:
Working from home
So it might have taken a viral apocalypse, but I’ve never been as productive as I am now. Maybe it’s a defense mechanism to hide in the bedroom as much as possible to avoid the chaos otherwise being wrought by the small person. In any case, my home kanban board is moving in the right direction with a very healthy “done” section.
My back says thank youuuuuu
I’ve been using a crappy kitchen chair to sit on while working from home. It’s been killing my back, so I loosened the purse strings and bought an office chair. Ben is so jealous that I got a gamer chair (if only because it was the cheapest option I could get in a hurry). It was only slightly delayed by the viral apocalypse, coming from Germany. It was also a bit of a pig to assemble, but so far has been worth every penny and sweat droplet because it’s super comfy.
Onions?
I was looking for a particular entry in my work calendar today when I came across a meeting item simply called ‘onions’. There is no other information associated with it. I must have created it. It’s in my private, personal, work calendar. For the life of me, I have no idea whatsoever what it refers to.
My handwriting is truly atrocious
With all the meetings I’m in remotely these days, I take a lot of handwritten notes and I go over them a posteriori to make sense of everything I capture.
Except in cases like this, where even I couldn’t make sense of my own chicken scratchings.
Incredibly, Katy is fluent in gibberish and deciphered enough of it so that I could remember that I wrote “send positive aspects of tool”.