- I have call screening very enabled on my phone. I get so many spam calls about software and networking dinners about SASS and I DO NOT WANT THEM. Anyway, this week one got through and let me tell you how.
- I am, er, making friends, with the man I sit next to at work. I’ve been insisting on borrowing his charging cable because he always has one and I don’t bring mine in. He pretends he hates sharing it. Last week when I left the office I put a post it note on it that says “Alice and Sam shared charging cable <3”. I got in this week and there was a new post-it that said “Fuck right off!!” and he had escalated the situation by raising a help desk ticket in my name requesting a charging cable for me.
- Also, I need to be able to use the work printer because on the 2nd of June I am doing a workshop about creating an engineering strategy at LeadDev’s Director+ track and I want to do a print-test of the worksheet before I sent them off. So that is help-desk ticket number two. I should simply be able to print, but it doesn’t work for me.
- So then I got a call screened, it was Jim calling about some tickets. “Brilliant!” I thought - the helpdesk man is calling me to fix my problems. I called him back. “Are you in soho?” I asked immediately. “Er no, I’m not, this is-“ I cut him off “Milton Keynes? Can you help me print?”. This man - Jim - is now very confused. “You… work for Rightmove…? You’re helping me with the helpdesk tickets…?”. Oh man. No this is just some random man who wants me to come to a round-table dinner to talk about Customer Experience with other nerds.
- Bad news: still can’t print. Good news: Still legitimately allowed to share Sam’s cable. Follow-up: I did not take the man up on his dinner offer.
- The other type of sales call I get is people working at US based companies that provide technology to scrape property websites, apparently not realising that we are the data. People want to scrape us.
- Here’s a video of a frog/toad(?) croaking in Preston Park. It was really loud!
- I’ve bound the first weaknotes book. There are many stages to binding a book but I am choosing to do each book in serial because each stage requires a lot of precision and focus, and each gluing stage requires 12h in a makeshift book press, of which I only have one. Anyway, here are some pics of the first book, fresh out of the press. Every aspect of this is somewhat wonky, but it will do!
