If you’re a reader of this blog, or if you follow me on social media — hell, pretty much if you interact with me at all, you’ve heard about Sammy. Maybe you’ve seen some pictures of her, maybe in one of the talks I used to give, back when conference speaking was kinda-sorta part of my job.

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Flew down to Austin Sunday afternoon, and was there all week for work. Work was work, 'nuff said — some wins, some …let’s say “not-wins”. So it goes.

Austin was hotter and more humid than I like. I stayed downtown this time instead of out in the Northern boonies where the office is, and that was a distinct improvement on available evening options. Had some decent food, found the place that would be my local if I ever ended up living in Austin, saw quite a few good live bands.

Short update this week, just because.

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This was a long, dragging week, but I’m also somehow struggling to remember much of anything specific. sigh

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I had kinda lost track of how load-bearing my typical Sunday afternoon at the local is — I do a good chunk of “weekly review” type stuff, cleaning out my email inbox, closing down open tabs, reviewing stuff in OmniFocus, etc etc. This Sunday I blew that off to meet up with a HS buddy and his family up in Portland, and holy crap I was just totally off-kilter in my personal life for a solid chunk of the week. Lesson learned, I guess…

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Another week of fingers-crossed hoping for no production outages, along with a few new work project aimed at making the environment more resilient (and no, of course we’re not pausing anything we were already doing, don’t be silly…)

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