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It's been a long road back to daily routines and normalcy in general. Heavy mental and emotional loads, and that finicky heated moment where you're almost but not quite out of the woods. Still getting situated after my company was bought out. They kept me and I got a bump, but it's very different from what I'm used to.
Kind of lucky that my wife hasn't started her new job yet, she took the kiddo to the Nothe Fort in Weymouth four times last week. He seems really fond of WWII-era stuff.
Now that we have a projector that's worth a damn, I've gotten back into Armored Core 6. Still stuck on the same level as before (CEL 240), but I'm showing some improvement. Playing this in 4K at 120" is almost unbearably immersive. The sensory payload is like nothing I've ever experienced, I was actually a little bit shaken afterwards. Good fun, but need to be in the right frame of mind for it.
We also went to a cute cheese and curd shop in town this weekend; Cherry Tree is a strong recommend. We got three types of interesting curd (key lime pie, lemon meringue, and carrot cake flavour) as well as a truffle gouda to go on a pizza I'm making, mushroom and sausage.
The pad thai and peanut satay from last week was good enough, but nothing to write home about. I don't have a recipe worth submitting, but I do recommend W2Kitchen's video about pad thai from scratch.
Glad you survived the purge, I'm sensing one going on at a company I'm currently contracting for and everyone, bosses included, look tired and shell-shocked.
On the cheese front, I had a go at making my own halloumi and it was surprisingly quick and easy, and even looked and tasted like the the real stuff! I don't know what rennet actually is, but it seems to be the secret ingredient to everything
Halloumi is easy peasy, cheddar cheesy... Mergers are another story... When they brought me on they said "we really wanted to buy the engine of your team's output, and we're not looking to change anything about that."
Two months later and practically no aspect of my workflow has been left untouched. I'm rebuilding everything I do from scratch, almost eight years of experience calmly cast aside. Do things our way, end of story.
Hope yours goes more smoothly. 2026 seems to have an infinite appetite for chaos.
Hey if it's any consolation I'm sure they'll make encouraging comments like "An AI would have done this already by now", or "please use an LLM to speed up the transition, have you heard of co-pilot?"
Nothing like lighting a fire under your talent to make them mentally check out of a job they previously somewhat enjoyed
Nothing yet, but I have my response pre-selected
I saw The Black Hole at the cinema when it came out and loved it. To the extent that I can still recall VINCENT stood for ‘Vital Information Necessary CENTralised’.
I had the comic book as a kid, didn't see the film until last year. It's such a weird, moody, memorable story.