Got promoted, relapsed a bit on my cutting down alcohol, ran 25k. However the partner and children are going away for the week, I'll miss them a bit but not as much as I'll love a week to myself.

I got exhausted just by reading your first sentence!

We relocated to South Holland for almost two weeks. I have a few work meetings next week and otherwise working remotely. Wife and dogs are just chilling.

Owner of the place we are renting told us about a dog beach close by. What fun! We seem to be collecting more dogs as we throw the ball and our two run into the drink after it. We had six dogs chasing the ball at one point.

Random Swede here, I just need to tell you about the meaning of your community name, askuk, in Swedish.
"As" means a cadaver (mainly a dead animal) but it's one of those words that's used for more than it's actual definition so it kinda means just "ass" too and is used as a curseword kinda like asshole. "Ditt jävla as" is basically "you fucking asshole".
"Kuk" means dick, so "askuk" literally means cadaver dick or in slang just "assdick". It's not a common curseword but absolutely a thing some Swedes say sometimes.
Not once have I read it as "Ask UK" before reading it as the Swedish meaning and laughing.

Ok, thanks, I'll leave you guys with this knowledge and let you be now. Bye!

Thanks for the little educational piece, fellow ass dicker.

The week was ok, but we had some inlaws down for the weekend, so took them off to beaches and nice places, to the point that I don't want to go back to work today.

And you? Got your walking desk sorted?

My week was OK thanks. My dad ended up in hospital on Thursday after myself and several staff from his local surgey couldn't get him into the car (couldn't walk). Told me to take him to hospital or call an ambulance, which he wanted to simply go home. Told him it's not happening and that I'll call an ambulance if he refuses. Turns out he has celluitis and he's still in hospital now.

Got my desk and walking pad set up, yeah! It's decent, done about 9k steps today so far on it. It's surpsing how warm it's making me , I definitetly couldn't do it on the hotter days! It also gives me "sea" legs when I stop and get off, I almost have to hold onto the walls of the house when I'm walking about for a bit!

Spent the week at the coast with the wife and the dog and it was lovely. I'm back at work in 2 days and dreading it. Eirgh.

Sorry to hear about your Dad... yeah, I think "previous generation" (aka "older") men don't like the fuss and would rather struggle on for days than get help.

I should know, I'm probably one of them 😉

How's walking and working at the same time? I'm curious as I really need to lose some calories and 10 hour days at a desk with occasional trips to the kettle isn't good... but typing? And Teams calls?

Calls is where I use it most, but I haven't had much trouble typing and walking at the same time, where I thought I would struggle. I'm pretty much doing agentic coding now vs hand cranking everything so I think that also makes it a bit easier to walk and type.

Even just standing up vs sitting down makes a big difference to my concentration.

Yesterday I managed to get in about 10k steps. I do get really warm walking though, and my colleagues said the same thing, so it might not be ideal right now if you're in the south of England where it's boiling!

Congrats on the promotion and 25k!

I'm immensly jealous of having the week to yourself! I'm struggling to even get 20 minutes and I'm exhausted :(

Spent a week on a boat chilling with pelicans and cormorants and getting black out drunk. You'd think I'm joking

It rained today 😉

Thanks for the insight... maybe... just maybe I'll buy one of those and do some walking

How... did that happen? Were the birds taking advantage? Do you still have your kidneys?

I just negotiated a raise at work first time doing it but it was that or move to a new job so thought I'd go for it.
Now I don't have to do leetcode

Thank you now let us get back to our Mummy dicks

Let's just say, I took some saucy photos of these birds in exchange for booze in my free time. *Leers sordidly*

Pelicans are weird too. A couple of flaps and they're airborne, and then they just glide like Spitfires in a lazy dog fight. Saw some kingfishers too, little blue furballs unwilling to stay still for a camera shot the damn teasers.

Now I don’t have to do leetcode

What's the new job like skills-wise?

I'm getting to that age where I can feel my ankles and leg joints after years of abusing them in my 20s and 30s. How does you get to the point where you can overcome that and keep running?

You don't haha

What ever I need to learn to get it done. Family company with me as the IT.
But it's generally Networking,365 and the local MS Office stack AD etc.
Then have my own implementations which I have a lot of freedom over so it's more opensource and cyber security focused.

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Big tip is run slower.