Lifenotes #15: December 2021 & January 2022

✨ Highlights

• We adopted baby Juno! 🖤
• Had my booster shot 🎉
• Had a nice Christmas with my family staying over at my house
• Got some more furniture for the house
• Had a little holiday to break up January: visited Cambridge for a day, and spent another couple of days in a lakeside cabin in Essex 😌
• My BSL classes are back in person, which is nice
• Had an almost pre-pandemic normal weekend with a spa day and some shopping, and it was so great 💛

🎮 Played/Read/Watched

• The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley: my sister brought me this and it was a nice warm read
• Ghost of Tsushima: got this on the Black Friday sale and hammered it through the last couple of months
• The Beatles: Get Back
• Modern Family
• Beautiful world, where are you? by Sally Rooney
• Die Hard: it’s not Christmas without Die Hard 😄
• The Book of Bobba Fett
• Shang-Chi
• The Mitchells vs the Machines: I watched this with my nephews and it was so good!
• know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer) by Cindy Sridharan
• My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike
• Don’t look up
• What happened to Monday
• Planes, trains and automobiles
• The office (again!)
• Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs - Folding Ideas
• Podcasts! Because I take Juno on walks every day, I managed to add podcasts back into my life, here’s some good ones from the last few weeks:
  • Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature - 99% Invisible
  • Zero - The Allusionist
  • The case against loving your job - The Ezra Klein Show
• Traces by Patricia Wiltshire

📸 Pics

December

January