Life On A Dead Planet

Production Woes, and lots(!) of music

So, this was a surprisingly busy day that started off with a nice production incident at work. Thankfully, I’ve a great team that managed to resolve it quickly enough, and while I am of no use when it comes to resolving the issue technically (I just about know how to log on to the production servers, and even that should come with a health warning) I am a wizz at the communications with our customers. So, that’s what I did. Tell everyone what we were doing, and that not to panic, it’s all going to work out.

Which it does. As it always does. More happy customers, and I come out looking like the bloke that saved the company. The rest of the day was pretty dull compared to the start of it, so the least said about that the better. I’m off to Germany tomorrow for work, back on Thursday evening. I’m presenting my master plan about Lean Governance, but even I know it’s bollocks and they’ll never go for it, but it’s been on my To-Do list for such a long time it’s nice to get it off the board.

The joiner came to put together finally put our shoe cupboard in the hall together. We’re doing some changes to the house ever since the water damage from last year. We found a joiner that some of our friends have used to a few smaller jobs around the house (replacing a few internal doors, building a cupboard in the kitchen to hide the underfloor heating pump (which doesn’t work imho, it’s so cold in the house since we got rid of the radiators), replastering the walls, and the final job, the shoe cupboard. But this last task has been dragging on for so long now. He’s 69, so not in the best of health, but he’s been suffering from his sciatic nerve to you can never quite be sure if he’ll turn up on the day. Today he was two hours late, and he left again after 30 minutes when he discovered he had cut the planks for the shelves too long and that he needed to home and re-saw them. He’ll be back tomorrow, and hopefully by the time I come back from Germany the cupboard will finally be done.

When there were no production issues or missing joiners to deal with I spent some time - too much, to he honest - on some of my favourite music sites, Discog, All Music and Rate My Music (the links are down below). I also found a site called Orbit, made by the BBC. It’s quite a unique music discovery app, in that you don’t see any artists, or genres, just a few coloured dots that you hover over and it plays, and if you like what you hear you click on an ‘eye’ icon to find out the name of the band. It took a while to find something I liked, but I loved the idea of it: real unbiased discovery, and hopefully a few diamonds in the rough.

Like I said, it was quite busy today so I didn’t really get much of a chance to browse that Interweb thing the kids have these days. I saw some news about Trump that scares me (but then again, what news about Trump these days doesn’t scare you, am I right?). Also, some clever boffin has turned the Epstein files into something resembling Gmail, totally searchable. Enter at your own risk. There were a few more links, I’ve listed them below.

Right, that’s your lot for this evening. I’ll upload this and then it’s back to Dark Winds on Netflix. Anyone seen it? Any good?

Music I Listened To Today

Podcasts I Heard

Videos I Watched

Instagram Account of The Day

Interesting Links I Found

Books I Am Reading

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