Now
It’s kinda like a blog, but also not one. Updated when I feel like it, this is an ongoing log of what I’m up to in work and life.Why /now?
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Spring time is when my social life starts ramping up again – music festivals are coming up in early summer, annual visit to The Globe is imminent, and most importantly, the majority of my friends are no longer on holiday. The allotment is coming along nicely with potatoes and onions flourishing. A nice change from last year’s slugapocalypse that saw literally everything decimated, except for a handful of basil and potato plants.
Started watching Abbot Elementary, Line of Duty and Love, Death & Robots. On the subject of LD&R, without a doubt, Zima Blue and Lucky 13 are top tier!
On the gaming side, I was recently inspired to jump back into Planet Zoo again after seeing this frankly mindblowing recreation of London Zoo from 1904.
Spring is doing its thing.
Although the cauliflowers didn’t make it, the tomatoes survived and have now graduated from seed tray to the patio! Now I’m prepping the rest of the allotment veg for planting out by growing brussel sprouts, beetroot, cabbage, heirloom carrots and broadbeans. I’m starting these off in covered seed trays, and once the danger of frost has truly passed, they can be hardened outside.
Monster Hunter Wilds is dominating my free time, as predicted, and competing against Infinity Nikki for my attention.
Started watching the first 2 seasons of the The White Lotus - LOVE IT. If you want a satirical take on social class and to watch horrible characters have the worst holiday ever, I highly recommend it.
I’m playing the ‘coziest open world game ever’, Infinity Nikki (not my video). Hands down, it’s the best game to chill out to with a remarkably wholesome community.
Finished two very depressing and grotesque books, Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh and The Vegetarian by Han Kang.
Upgraded my WFH set up with a walking pad. I used to easily walk 10k steps a day pre-Covid days, so I’m aiming to get back up to that number. At the moment I’ve been able to do a mile a day!
Doing a little Agile Training on the side, mainly to strengthen my foundational understanding of agile methodology, but also to better understand how it can work with the UX/UI disclipine. The value streams I work within have all implemented agile, but with each squad putting their own little spin on it, which has created some assumptions on what agile is.
Trying to grow cauliflower and tomatoes at home, ready for early spring planting.