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The woman with the fake tan stepped into my office, sat across from my desk and lit a cigarette.
At least, she would, sometime in the next 20 minutes. Smelling the future has advantages, but precision isn’t one of them.
One day of Winter 2024 survived. Cooked a beef stew and pumpkin soup. Heated gloves helped.
The routine of an early morning walk, the sights and smells of the central markets, strong coffee and cheap produce has not worn off yet despite its repetitiveness. Maybe because supermarket's are currently selling capsicums for more dollars per kilogram than they charge for beef.
Planned a Mother's Day outing to tasting Australia this evening. It wasn't incredible, but the food was good and not ridiculously expensive. And it was nice to be outside in town at night time in the midst of a lot of other people. It reminded me of Europe.
I did get blasted by Piri Piri Chicken smoke for a good thirty minutes. For free.
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Anyway the whole speechless title is in reference to Monday when I went for a walk at lunch and saw some primo blue sky plus autumn leaves plus sunshine combos. I was about to take a picture but someone was walking a dog by me and it was acting nervy so I didn't stop. I figured there would be plenty of other trees before I got home, but they were all ruined by power lines or the angle of the light. And then I was weighed down by ham, cheese, bread and two cherry tomatoes (full size tomatoes $14.99 a kilo).
I'd planned to make up for it by describing the leaves in an entry, but I never did. And because the sunshine is continuing I got the opportunity to take a similar photo. Which meant I didn't need a bunch of words, so it was a photo titled "wordless" but then I changed it to speechless for some reason and the sunny days are unabated so I'm stuck with it now. Oh well!
I was thinking yesterday while explaining some Mulesoft concepts how much I enjoy the flywheel of parallel consulting. Nothing forces you to learn something better than having to explain it to someone else. Getting experience on one project, and consolidating it on a blank whiteboard at another is good for the brain.
And then today I had to present something and realised I failed to prepare the content to my usual standard. I'm tempted to blame parallel consulting for that too. But actually I think it's because I burnt three hours more than I wanted to trying to resolve Log4J configuration conflicts between dependencies that hard code their logging libraries. It remains unsolved.
Set a 2024 Deadlift PB after work, to give my brain a break.
In a sea of sunshine, a tail appears above the light like the dorsal fin of a fluffy shark.
