Week Notes 21#52

Back home again after a week at the parents' for Christmas, and very much enjoying being back home:

• Had a lot of nice sofa time with Anna, and some of Morph, watching TV, reading, and chilling
• After my order last week for a few custom Lego Brickheadz designs, and the pieces delivered while I was away, I spent a lot of the week very slowly building The Grinch and Fuse (pictures will be done soon - still a couple of pieces need to be added) and Thanos from my Secret Santa
  • Was a good thing to do on the sofa, with lots of tubs, trays, and space to put everything
  • Was a not very good thing to do on the sofa as it was very noisy and distracting for anyone else in the room 😅
  • Definitely should've done an inventory before building things so I could've more easily checked that all the pieces had arrived, as I'm still trying to work out if there are pieces missing or not
• Had our first walk of the new year with the gang, featuring new pup Juno 🖤 and saw a herd of deer
• Not found anything good in the January sales just yet
• Got my booster jab (Moderna), which gave me a worse reaction than the previous jabs:
  • Flu symptoms, and a bad headache, but fortunately resolved with some paracetamol, even though I didn't sleep amazingly
  • Definitely would've been worse if I'd have been at work
• New Year's Eve was a bit lacklustre
  • Death to 2021 took a bit of the life out of the sails
  • After days of deliberating on dinner, Chapati Junction ended up not being available on the night so we had to pivot, and wait a while as could be expected
  • Managed to just about make it to midnight - at which point my award was announced, and Morph got very nervous with all the fireworks
• Was very honoured to have received an OpenUK award
• Did a few bits of Job DSL maintenance
• Morph has been trying our patience this week, and has spent a lot of time in the conservatory
• Taken down all the Xmas decorations
• Don't Look Up prompted some "fun" discussions about survival in a pre-/post-apocalyptic world
• Dopesick was an excellent, hard-hitting series, and Michael Keaton, Kaitlyn Dever, and Michael Stuhlbarg were really amazing. It reminded me of being on Diazepam and Morphine while recovering from my appendix, albeit I was very controlled on usage, and the amounts were low, we could see how easily I could've been hooked if it were much more addictive
• A more intentional break from WhatsApp and notifications
• Back to reading Tiamat's Wrath towards the end of the week as Andrew's caught up very speedily
• Looked into a couple of bugs for Spring Cloud Contract
• A little later than planned (while still at C1) but got around to writing Cucumber tests with Dagger
• Got some lovely Christmas presents from Anna, and am very much enjoying a new pair of toasty trackies and socks

Watched:

• Brave
• Moana
• Luca
• Don't Look Up
• Click and Collect
• Dopesick
• Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett
• Olaf Presents
• Making the Witcher: Season 2
• Death to 2021
• Scrubs
• Big Fat Quiz of the Year: 2021
• I Literally Just Told You
• Dark
• The Expanse
• The Book of Boba Fett
• The Witcher
• The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard