- A long weekend which didn’t quite go to plan: a slow (but necessary)
Saturday, followed by a bad start to some wood working projects (nothing that
bad though!),
- In the UK we had a public holiday and so this weekend was three days long. I
usually like to use them for starting projects; in three days you can make
some good progress. I’d planned to replace some table legs and build an
indoor cucumber planter: a big box with a trellis built in for the plants to
grow up,
- But I didn’t get very far into the table legs. I’m bad at getting accurate
cuts with a handsaw and so the initial cuts were close, but not good enough.
I tried to sand the ends down but using a random orbital sander isn’t the
right tool for it and so I had to give up. I did plan out the cucumber
planter, but next weekend I’m going to build a jig for my (soon to arrive!)
circular saw which I’m hoping will solve all my problems. I’ll report back,
- A work though, a new project has me on batman duties (jumping around between
team members helping things move through so lots of pairing, code review and
testing). The intention is twofold: one to help me with burn out
(although, this role has it’s own issues in that regard) and to help things
move through faster. It’s hard to tell concretely how improved things have
been, but the general feeling is positive,
- Finally, I’m trying to stop my endless open tab addiction by starting to use
Instapaper again. For a long time, I’ve opened a lot of browser tabs of
articles during the week, which I’d usually not get through and so would
build up and up. I’d found that Instapaper would become another inbox, but
I’m thinking that by doing a quick weekly review should keep the list down
somewhat. I’ll report back on how well it works!