And so a week passed and I said… lo… oh crap I promised myself I would write something. And of course my first thought goes to the geekiest of things, “hmm, I made a hugo blog which runs off pretty much flatfiles, I should write a blogging engine. Heck a CMS. Heck I can even think of a great punny name for it. Hmmm I should buy a domain…”
I’m going to get myself into trouble with this, I’m sure. But it’s gotten the creative juices flowing a little bit to think of how I could get that ball rolling. Only now I’m not the young whipper-snapper who would just start coding, so I’m trying out some different markdown editors as a way to compare the competitive landscape before I push for my own to be built, so this is coming from inside Obsidian. And one of the things which is coming up is having a look over some old posts and seeing what’s still relevant to stay up, what needs to be dumped, and what has fallen prey to the web of broken links, so there’s some tidying up happening as I mentioned previously.
This week we didn’t do much except stick to the routine; J was sick at the start of the week and then on Tuesday I dropped her off at childcare with K, went home and stayed in bed til it was time to pick them up in the evening. So a bit of a write-off in many respects. Luckily I was better by the end of the week now, but hayfever lingers as an absolute torture, and I probably didn’t help by going about some gardening today. Not sure why I do it to myself, I should just hire someone to take care of it on a monthly basis or something.
Ah. Fair point, something I’ve avoided talking about much - I’ll be out of formal employment in a few weeks (mid-November to be more specific), as my employer has seen fit to let me know I’m excess to needs; the official excuse was the team was doing so well without me, they didn’t need me. I know it’s cost-cutting driven, and frankly it was something I was considering doing anyway given 15 years of service was up in early November, so it comes at a good time and a prompt for me to actually get moving. So now the job hunt will start to rev up as I get closer to d-day, hoping that the Aussie worker terms which give us great redundancy payouts serves me just as well this time as last and I can leverage that into a significant advantage. Ideally I’d get into climate tech to give me some worthwhile alignment in my work with the things that worry me. Potentially a topic for another day here.