Update

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It’s been a while since I posted. It turns out that in the tail end of our holiday in Denmark, we caught COVID-19. Who could have guessed that not having any precautions in place and pretending that the virus is gone, would result in people catching COVID-19? And so that happened.

We felt quite miserable and had to cancel the second half of our vacation plans, but luckily we were through the worst after a week — but still we tire quickly.

And then on July 4th, I started my new job. It’s fully remote, which I really, really like, but that has its quirks in onboarding etcetera. But most things got resolved quite quickly, and I’m getting up to speed with the product, the people and the way of working. There’s enough to do, and it’s exciting to be part of a product management team again.

Most of the team are in the UK, which means that regularly scheduled meetings are also on a UK schedule. I was used to starting early and then ending my working day early too, but that just doesn’t work with the agendas. I have shifted my workdays a bit, and operate on a mostly GMT schedule now. This means that instead of going to the supermarket in the afternoon, right after ending my workday, I now go in the early morning. It took me some time to work out how we should adapt our schedule, and we’re still in the early stages, so things might change again.

Klik wanted a loom for her birthday, and it finally arrived. Luckily she is very handy, because it came as a flat-pak with lots of assembly required, but now we are the proud owners of an eight shaft loom that can hold fabric up to 80 cm wide. It’s small enough to fit on the table, so that’s where it is sitting right now.

I might have to write an app to help with counting and determining the next shaft positions, based on the patterns, but that is something for when we have a bit more experience with it.

Crossposted from my blog. Comment here or at the original post.

Comments

[millionbubbles]

Boooo to COVID! I'm sorry it shortened your vacation plans.

I am thinking I might need to alter my work schedule too once we move. I'll be an hour ahead so I may need to start later which I'm not thrilled about.

I hope other than that your new job is going swell so far.

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I wasn't thrilled about changing my work schedule either, but it turned out to be not that bad. Now I go to the supermarket really early in the morning, when it's much quieter rather than in the afternoon. And when I stop with work for the day, there's nothing I have to do right away, which is nice.

The new job is a lot of fun, so far!