Other What currently makes your life awesome?

On board of a plane on my way home after travelling for work from Tuesday to Friday, and then spending the weekend with 39 colleagues on a company outing. I laughed a lot these last few days, and the weather was glorious.

I really am in the right company with the right people.

And I can now officially transition fully into my new role as Head of Product / Product Owner. Also nice.

 

Nothing, apart from the new girl friend being amazing.

 

Just got back from a wee vacation in Berlin. What an amazing city! So much to see and do, so many places to eat and drink, so cheap and easy to get around. Really enjoyed it, will 100% visit again.

 

Porsche passed its mot today, couple coolant hose leaks which will be projects in themselves, while needing 4 new tyres but otherwise great success!

Going on holiday on Monday too which is pretty awesome.

 

I just started the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate on Coursera because I've found myself bored at my current job and largely undervalued, so new (or enhanced since it is a part of my current roll) skill-set plus I find it a very interesting subject.

 

My wife has been looking at that along with a few other bits and pieces. She currently does multilingual IT support for retail (plus occasional corporate calls), but the security side of things has always interested her. Her team had a meeting with one of the UK IT bigwigs and he asked what sort of training people would be interested in doing, so my wife pulled out a list... He was saying that he would love to get everyone on the CCNA route and a couple of them as security specialists as well and she is one of the few there with 4 language fluency as well, so fingers crossed.

 

Fingers crossed for her! I can't imagine doing multilingual IT support; the users I have struggle enough with our native English!

Edit: spelling!

 

Nothing amazing in the grand scheme of things but got my little MS-01 setup with Proxmox and got the first VM up and running (Just a bog standard Win 11 Pro install as its familiar). Still need to do more config to get the Intel iGPU passed through (via VT-d) but feels good after loosing all interest when my Epyc system died unexpectedly and life getting in the way (still getting in the way but a little less so, taking the small wins as they come).

 

It's my Dad's birthday, so we had a nice day out to Saundersfoot in Pembroke, I have a beer in hand and chilling in the sun with my vape. Nowt better

 

Missus and I made an offer on our first house and had it accepted no less than 15 minutes later!

Kinda makes me think we should have offered less but didn't think there was any point knocking a few grand off when the location is perfect and it's ready to move into. Has a big beautiful outbuilding for servers, bikes and a workshop too. Couldn't pass that up.

 

Finally moved into our new home

The Friday move was a bit mental.. since the last owner didnt actually move out in time. I got my keys at 12pm. They were still there at 5.30pm packing vans to leave. Then I didnt get the rest of the keys until the saturday afternoon. There was still stuff left in the shed as well .

 

If its decent, it's now yours. If it's junk I'm sure their solicitor can arrange a skip!

 

Mostly Junk, the more mental thing for me. They are living 3 doors down !. They bought a house town or 2 over, and its a complete renovation property, so they are staying with their inlaws whilst waiting for the stuff to get done. Feels weird

 

Urgh, glad it's all sorted now but I'd not be happy with that. I expect nothing actually went wrong they just didn't plan it at all?

 

Thank you. She is Dutch and fluent in English, Dutch, German, and French. She can get by pretty well in Spanish and has conversational Japanese too. Being English, I can just about manage English and Nottingham...

This means that she covers the UK stores as well as the Benelux area so gets to play around with just about everything that she speaks although not so much in German for this role.

She is currently waiting on hearing back about the Cisco networking stuff, which should be fun - for me as well as she wants to have a hardware lab set up as well. That is the arrangement we have in this house, I set up the hardware, she then makes it all work.

 

It was a mix of things, I think.

Apparently, the plan was for him to move out on moving day, but a friend who was supposed to help didn’t turn up. When it came time to hand over the keys, we suspect he only handed them in so he could collect the keys to his new place. That’s likely why it took longer when things didn’t go according to plan, not everything fit in his van, and he basically used getting the new keys as a way to do another van run.

 

Och, aye perhaps people make mistakes. So long as they were working like slaves to get stuff shifted I could forgive.

Last time I moved I had a Luton van sat on the bump stops and a LWB Transit packed to the gunnels on the morning, if I had to move again I'd need either professionals or a 7.5 tonne on hand.

 

Got the results of my annual blood tests, this year including blood and pee test for prostate cancer. Have some symptoms of prostate enlargement and, my dad died from it, meaning I am at greater risk. Was a bit worried about this.

In awesome, because every test came back, normal, no action required.

 

Back from a lovely week away.

The awesome thing being that now I'm back to 150Mbps rather than 1-3Mbps.

 

A nice little wage increase has resulted me in being a grown up and setting up a second Bonus Saver account to automatically deposit the extra money into per month.

Mainly because I think I've bought all the Lego there is already .