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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As I mentioned in last week’s note, I got paged out on the evening of the 4th and ended up staying up until around 4am Sunday morning. The whole rest of the working week pretty much felt like recovering from the hangover of that production incident. I think we’ve got things into a better place, but a whole lot of the week was just periodically watching logs and holding my breath waiting for things to fall apart again.

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