Patrick @patrick@cloudisland.nz

I’m so glad to be here. If there’s anything I can do to either help it grow or help keep it sustainable, please shout out (other than upgrading to a higher tier, which I figure I can do easily enough so just did 😂)

Next week I had:

* record a webinar with AWS
* my birthday
* office party for work’s “birthday”

Which turns out was too tempting for the universe.

If you like this shirt and want your own (which you do) pick it up at https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Trams-Rights-Melbourne-Z-class-by-excitedleigh/92384316.BTWM1

Happy 🏳️‍🌈IDAHOBIT Day!

Insert a long rambling rant about Apple choosing Parcel Post (not Express) to ship an Express Replacement device, auspost not scanning it for a week and refusing to do anything until June 6th.

I… don’t like the lack of control I have in this situation and that I can’t even throw money at it to resolve (because I can’t mentally close this until the device either shows up or apple consider it lost)

I’m liking this laptop stand, but now my stickers are upside down :(

today I created a GitHub service user to procrastinate doing 6 month reviews (that aren’t due until the end of the month but also I should do that now)

So the trick to do anything is finding something I want to do less and trying to do that.

Not sure how to work this to my advantage to be honest.

A coworker made reference to dropping the ball on some tasks and I wanted to say I just don’t even bother picking up most of mine and somehow I kick enough of them into some kind of pile that others pick up the important ones while I hold on to one of them and smile and nod and I’m now realising that my stress levels are perhaps not quite as under control as I thought.

Today is a 3 video conferencing system day (zoom, meet and chime). I… have clearly made mistakes in my life to now spend enough time in meetings that this is how I measure my day😆

The thing I hate about being a hiring manager is having to make a snap decision on people.

Every person I interview to deserves a job, some just don’t have the right skills yet and it sucks when the reason I think they won’t work out is because I can’t provide them the environment for them to be successful in.

Negative 🎉 so time to 🛫 back to Sydney.

Didn’t catch up with friends this time, so here’s hoping it’s less than 10 months before I get back to Auckland again.

(Although I also don’t want to risk hoping for too soon, as that would be due to bad health and nope not ready for that)

Lunch time!

Due to time zone fails I have an 8am interview to do tomorrow. Rats.

Negative, phew. Just need to stay that way until Sunday morning.

Half way through my trip. Tomorrow I do a day 5/6 RAT.

I’m mediumly anxious it’ll be positive and then I’ll be stuck here which… well, ok, NZ has Coke Zero, the cookies I like, a time zone that suits me for work purposes (especially for interviewing candidates in PDT), and I have my work computer and a 5K display so it’s almost as good as being at home… except for the husband not being here, so yeah, I still want to go home on Sunday.