Patrick @patrick@cloudisland.nz

Just your average Monday night.

Doing an ultrasound (fasting incl no water for 6 hours) and blood test that require fasting (overnight) so I only have to fast once sounded like a good idea yesterday.

Now as I wait for the blood test thirsty and hungry I feel differently 😂

Not a bad effort for the last few days.

Oh look it is time to answer another customer’s Vendor Questionnaire.

To be fair these don’t scare me as much now I know how few questions are actually fails (and not “oh, ok, I guess that’s not really a deal breaker after all”)

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If you wanted a DevOps role to be found by people in NZ where would you post it? (Asking for a friend who is in fact me)

I'm reading Amazon’s SOC 2 report and reviewing/signing off on our complementary user-entity controls and … I definitely deserve a lot of chocolate.

I do believe that it is cat photo o’clock

Tomorrow has two interviews - one where I interview a candidate, one where I’m being interviewed (internal position, doubt I’ll get it, not sure what I’ll do if I don’t, I think it might be time to talk to some people internally about some other options)

AusPost won’t investigate this until June 3rd, which means Apple won’t either, despite saying “2-4 business days” (which was 2 weeks ago already)

I guess don’t bother with AppleCare, utterly useless. Will do absolutely nothing to help even though they are the ones who sent the replacement using AusPost not me. What am I even paying for?

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.