Week 191: Mallow

A week of sitting in the park, jägerbombs, stolen bags, reducing boilerplate, short weeks, drinking in another park, tasting menus, family, and slow reading.

Posted on 23 June 2024 by Rowan Manning .
Tagged with Work, Social, Food, Books, Rounders

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This week was the annual FT rounders game where several teams from Product & Technology either ran around Regent’s Park or sat on the grass and ate/drank. It was a fun day as always but my bag got stolen at the pub afterwards. The joke’s on the thief: there was nothing in it except a jacket, some suncream, and a bottle of water. Shame about the bag though.
I released an updated OpenTelemetry library for internal FT use which will stop us from having to copy the same boilerplate (10 dependencies and 60 lines of code) across 200+ repos. I’m really quite excited to get a blog post written and start getting our teams to try it out next week 👏
We had Thursday and Friday off work because it’s Charlotte’s birthday! We didn’t do a lot on Thursday except make it to a local greasy spoon. On Friday we went to a food festival in Chelmsford, drank some wine, and danced to Symphonic Ibiza.
On Saturday, all our plans fell through so Charlotte and I had a lazy morning and then went for the tasting menu at Mallow which serves incredible vegan food.
On Sunday we went for a roast at Charlotte’s dad’s and spent the day with family. Somehow my first time having rice and peas with a roast, great addition. Charlotte’s nephew was there and being cute, he’s nearly walking.
My reading rate has dropped a lot, partly because of all the drinking but I’m also finding The Left Hand of Darkness to be a bit of a slow burn. It’s great but the characters haven’t reeled me in to the same extent as some other recent reads.