Week 92 — fully sick
This week felt like a bit of a write off during the middle! I had a bit of a cold last weekend, but on Tuesday I hit an absolute wall! Exhausted by work, I spent the night on the couch with a doona watching Channel 4 reruns on YouTube. Which, sounds like my kind of evening anyway, minus the feeling like a wet sponge! By Thursday, I was pretty much back to normal, though. It just felt like a very long week between Tuesday and Friday 😆
This is all to say, not much to report this week! I bought a car a few months back, and the status on it has been “no ETA”, until this week, where it has moved to “some time in July 🤷”. Which is exciting! But now all the upsell emails are also joining the conversation.
Work has been interesting. The whole AI thing has again thrown spanners at us. Our current project is a bit like the GIF of Gromit (of Wallace and Gromit fame) building a train track as the train is racing ahead. We are planning and deciding and building all at once. This is leading to making decisions just-in-time as we need them for build. Though, now with AI on our side, the days of “this will take a month to build” are gone. So leaving a decision right up to the point where you need it for build is possible. Terrifying, stressful, against all good practice and harmful to sanity, but possible. I hope this doesn’t become the new norm. Though it’s kinda hilarious, as it puts the pressure on the manager level, whereas before the pressure landed on the engineers. Management had made a decision months ago, and are tapping their feet waiting for stuff to be built. In any case, too much pressure on any one area or function is not a good thing, and I hope we can work out a better way of working going forward. It may not be the old way + AI, but a new way now that we have the capacity to accelerate building and prototyping at many levels.
Sebby, Clare and I went to the National Portrait Gallery today for a look at what was on. Seb really wanted to just hangout and watch the Matildas (and who can blame him really!) so we did a quick whirlwind around parked in front of the Tilllys for a bit! After a quick coffee and snack, we checked out James Turrell’s installation and then wandered around the sculpture garden. It was here that we spent 10mins while Sebby had a ball running around to the back of a plaque, stepping on it with one foot and sliding down. Gently saying “weee” as he went. A whole garden of fun things to so, but this is what caught his attention! That was until we got to a sculpture of stainless steel diamonds! Highly reflective, to show an angular reflection of the viewer as we approached! A quick exploration of who was in the reflection, but then the real fun Sebastian found was doing laps of one of the diamonds! Doing ever so well not to bonk his head as he went! We met another family here and had a quick chat while the kids had a standoff, sussing each other out. But before long, lunch time called. We took the stick we found (a good stick for drawing!) and headed off to lunch before making the trek back home 🥰🥰