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Week 38

Man, it's amazing how little idea I have of the week when it comes to summarise it.

Work

Last week was kind of intense; resourcing issues meant we had a bit of a crunch at the end of the week to get this horrendous jquery-driven form updated in line with new legislation. The BE engineer and I chastised each other for working out of hours, but the work got done.

Obviously that wasn't the end of it: requirements kept changing and bugs were found, but they were reasonably straightforward to deal with. So I had a relatively chilled couple of days at the start of the week before the next sprint's ceremonies began.

I also started prepping for the upcoming sprint, which was hard because we're going into it with very little structure. The idea is that we have a outcome-driven objective that we can measure with user-testing, and the team's got carte blanche to come up with solutions.

It's cool and for-real-agile in that way that feels slightly uncomfortable. There's literally zero development work in the sprint, so apart from contributions to the design process D and I will be free to pull stuff from the top of the backlog, or shape up work that's in the pipeline or whatever. I'm really keen to make this a success, so I'll be actively prioriting things next week.

Food

I never thought it would happen, but I started getting sick of poke bowls and began to crave things like greasy fish suppers, bread and meat. This co-incides with the change in the seasons towards Autumn I suppose. I did well, I think, by maing potato rostis with fried eggs and making sweetcorn fritters for the first time in a long time.

Sushi rice was still on the agenda in the form of chicken katsu curry. I followed this recipe and it was... fine? I didn't get stressed out making it like I used to because I knew exactly what I was doing with the rice, and using chicken breasts instead of thighs is much less hassle because their big single pieces like schnitzels. It was just that the sauce didn't quite hit the spot, and I'm not sure why. It didn't lack heat, but some kind of intensity of flavour? I dunno. It'll do as by baseline recipe, but I'll search around for ways to refine it. Maybe even sticking a cube or two of a pre-made curry sauce would be enough to punch it up a bit.

Sweetcorn fritters and dal are back on the menu after a rest due to overexposure. Both kids are now fans, it seems, of the fritters at least, and they hotly deny ever having turned their noses up at it. I even got a "Yum" from R when I told her what we were having after school.

Activities

These notes are really unfocused and took too long to write.

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