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Old jokes

I love the cheesy sequence jokes I used to hear as a kid: How many elephants can you fit into a Mini Cooper? Four How do you know if you have an elephant in your fridge? Footprints in the butter How do you know if you have two elephants in

What I have learned from carving wooden spoons

Hubby and I took a spoon-carving class at Perennial St Louis last December. I've been carving on my own and using the Perennial woodshop as a member when I need the big power tools. This is what I've learned from ten months of spoon carving: You

Now, 24th May 2020

A Now page is a dated update about what I'm currently focused on. Thinking about I am one of the lucky ones. My employer mandated everyone who can work remotely should do so, as of March 16th. I've done ten weeks working from the table in

Artwork I love

Posting some favourite artists and artwork for a serenity break in your day. Hasui Kawase * Tsuchizaki, Akita * Morning at Nijubashi Bridge * Frosty Morning in Nagaoka * Evening at Tagonoura * Morning at Mito Beach Caz Novak's Pacifica and European series Harmston Arts serigraphs galleryReina colour pencil work Serena Supplee Katsushika

Old friends in verse

I've been reading poetry lately and my newest favourite is Warning by Maw Shein Win. Below are older friends, from school and old books and dusty libraries and long summer holidays, in approximate date order of writing. The Flea by John Donne I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

Working adaptations

You don't have to smile all the time on a video conference. Maintaining 'interested-engaged-face' is exhausting. Tell people it is OK not to smile, and OK to turn their video off for a few minutes. Spending a whole day bouncing from one video meeting to the

The new normal

This has been a weird week for everyone. My company went global 'work from home if you can' starting 16th March, 2020, and I've never done more than one day of remote work before. Getting a home office organised, negotiating for desk space with sun-loving cats,

Now, 16 January 2020

Thinking about:Pondering my career and what I want to do with it. I'm thinking about a master's degree but a traditional MBA doesn't interest me enough to spend years of work on it. So what other subjects would hook my interest enough to

Summing up 2019

Did a lot of reading in 2019, 61 books in total, 48 were new to me, 13 re-reads, 5 on Audible, and 11 books left unfinished. 23 were nonfiction, 39 were fiction. I've noticed an uptick in the number of books I read per year, going to keep

Now, March 2019

Thinking about:I spoke at an out-of-town conference, Connectaha in Omaha NE. My talk was A Hero's Journey: Manual Tester to Automation QA. I got accepted to speak at KCDC in July, that talk will be Building a QA practice from scratch. Stimuli and input:Several books have

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