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Pizza and cake
Jan. 16th, 2024 09:22 pmThe perfect birthday tea, as far as our son is concerned :D
When I woke up this morning, the world had turned white! We had actual snow and not just a light dusting. The good news is that when I had to pop out to the shop, I wore my chelsea boot wellies that not only keep my feet warm and dry but also don't slip. The bad news is that every tree I went under decided to drop a load of wet snow on my face :O So rude! Also, our tiny pond #itsapondnotapuddle has frozen again. Pretty sure that's the damselflies done for :(
I also dropped in to the doctor's surgery to order some sharps. On the way, I walked past the house I grew up in on Falkner Square, in the middle of which is a little park. When the Square was built, only residents would have had a key to open the gates. I was surprised to see how many sets of footprints there were in the snow - lots of people had walked through on the way from one place to another. I only know this because of the snow but I like to think they always pass through there. This makes me happy - that people are making use of such a tiny piece of green (white!) space in the middle of the city.
I took some photos of the sun catching the tops of some of the trees, and the trees and bushes with their snowy robes. A couple and their baby were walking past and offered to take a picture of me in the park but I declined. Nothing more awkward than posing for strangers.
After that it was back home to do some washing and bake my signature chocolate orange marble cake. I also managed some work :D And made some tough decisions...
Before SharePoint we used shared drives. In an effort to free up some storage space, we are in the process of purging the latter. Well, we've done some purging of SP sites, too, but SP remains a Thing. One of the drives I 'own' contains process maps made using a tool called Triaster - very expensive and underused, so we stopped paying the subscription. Going by the dates on the documents, it was more than 10 years ago. I really liked the company (also called Triaster) and their process, but we just never got any value out of it. Anyway, we had a huge number of process maps that are wildly out of date, haven't been looked at in over a decade, and nobody else has even mentioned them, let alone wanted to look at them. I kept the template and user guide, took a deep breath... and decided to let the rest go. We put so much work into creating them but they're no use to anyone, now.
I also watched the second episode of Dave playing FFVII. When he was doing the 'dress Cloud/Dave up in drag' section, he failed at the squats challenge, so didn't get the best wig, and Robenhagen let him skip the bit in the Honey Bee Inn. I was quite relieved - it's quite uncomfortable to watch that, now.
And that's all for today.
When I woke up this morning, the world had turned white! We had actual snow and not just a light dusting. The good news is that when I had to pop out to the shop, I wore my chelsea boot wellies that not only keep my feet warm and dry but also don't slip. The bad news is that every tree I went under decided to drop a load of wet snow on my face :O So rude! Also, our tiny pond #itsapondnotapuddle has frozen again. Pretty sure that's the damselflies done for :(
I also dropped in to the doctor's surgery to order some sharps. On the way, I walked past the house I grew up in on Falkner Square, in the middle of which is a little park. When the Square was built, only residents would have had a key to open the gates. I was surprised to see how many sets of footprints there were in the snow - lots of people had walked through on the way from one place to another. I only know this because of the snow but I like to think they always pass through there. This makes me happy - that people are making use of such a tiny piece of green (white!) space in the middle of the city.
I took some photos of the sun catching the tops of some of the trees, and the trees and bushes with their snowy robes. A couple and their baby were walking past and offered to take a picture of me in the park but I declined. Nothing more awkward than posing for strangers.
After that it was back home to do some washing and bake my signature chocolate orange marble cake. I also managed some work :D And made some tough decisions...
Before SharePoint we used shared drives. In an effort to free up some storage space, we are in the process of purging the latter. Well, we've done some purging of SP sites, too, but SP remains a Thing. One of the drives I 'own' contains process maps made using a tool called Triaster - very expensive and underused, so we stopped paying the subscription. Going by the dates on the documents, it was more than 10 years ago. I really liked the company (also called Triaster) and their process, but we just never got any value out of it. Anyway, we had a huge number of process maps that are wildly out of date, haven't been looked at in over a decade, and nobody else has even mentioned them, let alone wanted to look at them. I kept the template and user guide, took a deep breath... and decided to let the rest go. We put so much work into creating them but they're no use to anyone, now.
I also watched the second episode of Dave playing FFVII. When he was doing the 'dress Cloud/Dave up in drag' section, he failed at the squats challenge, so didn't get the best wig, and Robenhagen let him skip the bit in the Honey Bee Inn. I was quite relieved - it's quite uncomfortable to watch that, now.
And that's all for today.
