Weeknotes 1
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We’ve been packing boxes and getting rid of furniture this week. Last time we got rid of our furniture it’s because we were leaving to go travelling in South America. This time it’s not nearly as exciting – we’re temporarily moving back to my hometown while we figure out what to do next. I do like London, and there’s a reasonable chance we’ll be back before too long, but we’ll see how it goes.
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Another option we’ve been semi-seriously looking into is emigrating. Turns out university degrees actually are important if you want to move to another country – particularly the U.S. I didn’t study computer science at university, so if we wanted to live in New York or Seattle or Austin I’d probably need another 2 or 3 years professional experience to meet H1B degree equivalency. Canada seems a bit more doable – apparently you can even move there without a job if you get a nomination from a province that is actively seeking people with certain skills. There’s always the option to live and work in 27 other EU states. Oh, whoops.
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Because we’re packing, I have to decide whether I want to hang onto my bike or not. It’s not a very good bike and I don’t ride it very often, but it’s the first bike I’ve disassembled/reassembled and fixed up with new parts. Building a bike was much more fun than actually riding it around the city. It’s a 1991 LOOK MI-70 mountain bike. I fitted new cantilever brakes, new levers, new shifters, replaced the bottom bracket, replaced the freehub body, new cables, etc. I’d like try it out as a 1x10, which I think means I’d have to cold set the rear dropouts – it looks a bit scary but it could be a fun lockdown project.
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We played Mysterium this weekend. One player is a ghost that sends the other players “visions” (visual clues) which they must decipher to solve a case. It was OK but kind of slow mechanically, and although it’s supposedly a co-operative game, the setup doesn’t really encourage all that much interaction because each player is essentially working on their own thing until the last round. More fun has been skribbl.io, which I’ve been playing with my team at work. It’s perfect for quick games (1 round lasts probably 5-10 mins). One person is given a word to draw and everyone else has to guess what it is – that’s it. It’s just fun and easy and comic and it really cheered me up when I was feeling grumpy.