Autumn Into Winter: Keeping the Machine Running While Living Inside It This stretch—October through December—felt different from the summer. Less exploratory, more about consolidation. Fewer new threads spun up, more existing ones tightened, maintained, and brought to something that actually resembles closure. On the personal maintenance front , a lot of quiet but important things happened.…
A Quarter of Making, Fixing, Shipping, Playing, and Showing Up This past quarter was one of those stretches where, looking back, the sheer variety of things done is more striking than any single milestone. It was less about one big deliverable and more about steady motion across work, side projects, logistics, people, and a fair amount of real life. On the making-things side , hardware and…
Q2 Updates: More Stuff Actually Done Another quarter down, and looking at this list makes me realize I kept busy with the usual mix of productive work and random life maintenance. Gardening Got Serious The plant game stepped up this quarter. Got the glycine growing fast, planted sunflowers that actually grew, got non-food asparagus, and bottled my first two cider batches. We added a new jasmine…
What I Actually Got Done This Quarter Looking back at my task list, I’m honestly surprised by how much stuff I managed to knock out. Real Life Things That Matter This is the stuff I’m most proud of: got my geranium cuttings to work (after the scented ones failed), planted peppers that actually sprouted, and helped plant Lolo’s herbs. Made kvas and cider (two batches with different yeasts), and got…
Last week in this space! Administrative with invoices and tax-related tasks dispatched, along with the start of a proposal. D3.14 is normally accepted, so that’ good too. Something less to worry about. The week began with high-energy commitments, including a full day in London with the DSA and the two-part PROBONO meetings. The DSA socials was good fun, and a good warm-up before next week! Plenty…
A lot of closing stuff before December! Got the teaching contract signed, and closing commissions before end of the month. And even if I could not do the kids book I wanted, I did a couple of shopping bits for the holiday season drew closer. And got last steps of works (hopefully) - window. Good timing as Thursday was the day we got pleeeenty of snow in Paris. This was a bigger week for hardware,…
Some more socials - off with a cozy raclette evening with neighbors and sharing plants Claire, plus S’s bachelorette plus prepping for holiday travels added a warm touch to the week. Still non negligeable admin, around followups of October invoices, new commissions and CAF paperwork were completed, while preparations for home improvements in both places in Paris moved forward (but did not go…
Another full week – and three more to go. Time flies, even without admin (that was the time for corporate taxes, but also preparing tenants admin). A bit of prospective, meeting with old projects partners (as well as new prospects in Brest!), and discussing new ways of looking at things - and these are taking shape, maybe for a last project on this stretch? Internal prospects, too, meeting Simon…
This week was (again) a mix bag of of travel, creative presentations, and solid deliverables. I kicked off with a piece of work in London over the first day, then followed by a session with the right people to present the progress over the use of the ISO37101 standard (plus some testing and finetuning of guardrails). Project-wise, I advanced the D3.14 paper by integrating new screenshots and did…
Some socials again! I started with a lunch catch-up with Sarah, before she hops back into .. IT. As always - a good time and good chats. And capped it off with a movie night at the Rocky Horror Picture Show with both friends in family, in the super Studio Galande in Paris. Before that was nice win and proceco! Family time too with resarch work with the dad and a family dinner with parents and…