{"id":7112,"date":"2021-03-29T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2021-03-29T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T08:00:13","slug":"weeknotes-109-foam-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/29\/weeknotes-109-foam-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknotes #109 \u2014 Foam party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My F1 qualifying companion<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

A week of two halves, or more accurately one fifth and four-fifths. Monday was Human Rights Day<\/a> in South Africa (reflecting the date of the Sharpeville Massacre<\/a> in 1960), so half of my colleagues were out of the office and I had a clear diary. On Tuesday the meetings started early, and for the rest of the week I had barely any time where I wasn\u2019t in some video call or other, and I felt the pressure to use the small gaps productively.<\/p>\n

The boys and my wife are now off school for two weeks for their Easter holidays. I\u2019m taking Thursday and Tuesday off to get a longer break as well, and I\u2019m looking forward to being away from the keyboard for a bit.<\/p>\n

My wife got her first COVID-19 vaccination on Sunday, which I am ever so grateful for. She went on her own and said that the process was super-efficient, with tons of volunteers helping to guide people through the vaccination centre. Hopefully it won\u2019t be too long before I join her.<\/p>\n

This was a week in which I:<\/p>\n