Help me f-listies - while I was in Chicago, I foolishly made a promise to speak to the LatAm team in Spanish if I'm at the same conference next year.

Problem - I vigorously no hablo Espanyol. I have tried, twice, and I start with happy Spanish thoughts, and by the end of the sentence, it's French.

Any helps, tips and suggestions are gratefully

Yet another place where I know only the conference centre. It's a very *big* conference centre.

This is another one of those weird "must write about this" notes I've left myself ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of the Rugby World Cup 2023, which will hopefully start with a cracker of a France vs New Zealand match ( Read more... )

Given the travelling I have been doing with work, I thought it was worth chronicling where I have travelled to, and lucky, there's a website for that ;)


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So the good news is that work are sending me to a really cool conference ( Read more... )

Thanks to blood tests, at least I now know the reason I have been feeling like sleepy death for about 3 months is a vitamin D deficiency. I look forward to better living through chemistry.

(Plus at least it's not my thyroid playing up which is what I was worried about)

Sometimes I leave myself notes about what I should post about next. This time I have left myself the gloriously vague note of "the shoe problem". Cue confused me now wondering what past me meant ( Read more... )

February happened to it, repeatedly. (The last two weeks of February appear to have happened to several RL people, even worse than it happened to me. At least I just feel like I'm one week behind with everything ( Read more... )

For those celebrating - merry Christmas

For those not celebrating - happy Sunday!