Had a visit to The Warehouse to check out their new grocery section. It’s a "normal" Warehouse not an overly big one. They’ve changed the store layout to now sell fresh fruit and veggies, plus pantry items, cooking oil, flour, dried fruit, yeast etc. The veggies were nice quality and certainly at a lower price than the local supermarkets.

So, yesterday was a first for me. I had an online interview scheduled at 8PM (yes, PM because the interviewer was based in the UK), so had my dinner, got all dressed up (ie, put on a business shirt on top of shorts), turned on all the lights in my room (a rare occurrence since I prefer dim or natural lighting), and dialled in. And waited. And waited. And no one turned up. The interviewer was a no-show. An hour later, I received an apology text from their HR and they asked if I was free to do the interview. At 9:30PM? After being stood up already? Uh...no. They rescheduled it for today evening instead. I mulled over it and figured this was a bad omen, a sign of things to come if I were to proceed further, so this morning I declined and withdrew my application.

On the positive side, I got a job offer from my old old workplace. On one hand, it feels nice to be sought out and knowing that my old company still thinks of me, and if I were to accept the offer, the job is almost guaranteed to be in the bag; on the other hand, it's my old old company and some of the reasons I left are still valid (like the cringy corporate culture). On one hand, it's a different role to what I did previously, this one is an actual engineering role where I get to design and play with new toys and not deal with BAU stuff; but on the other it's not the dream Linux job I've been after... guess I'll have to go with whatever pays the bills, again.

I think I'm on day three of thumb-key, and still haven't broken 20wpm yet. I am getting more familliar though.

No idea how a question mark wasn't important enough to make the main layout but * is.

So with all the nostalgia for Web 1.0 lately I signed up for an account on eternal-september and now I'm trying to remember all the usenet groups I used to be obsessed with oh, about 25 years ago.

@d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz I saw that! We created a post at the same time!

I actually think yours was first by seconds 😆

Heading off on holiday today... almost exactly a year since my last trip