Dog

I spend a lot of time hanging out with the dog; there's going to be dog pictures! At least a dog isn't a mechanical keyboard.

Went on a perfect-distance walk with him before work this morning (not very picturesque though). If I time it right I can get home at 8:10 from dropping the child at school, then have the dog walked by standup at 9am. It's very satisfying to time it right, which I did today.

I've spent the last few days copying 6TB of data from various hard drives to a NAS. I've been wanting to do this for ages and it feels good to have something I control, which has some failover (I can lose a drive without losing data) without having a load of external drives just connected to my NUC, all disorganised. I'm happy to be free of that clutter but now I have to manually check everything copied so I can wipe those drives. That is not going to be fun.

I did the first session of my level 2 coursework this evening and it went...OK? I feel like I'm not cut out for it sometimes. It doesn't help that I chose a difficult thing to focus on that I don't have a lot of experience with as a player, and you only get 30 minutes per session, and it's a lot to cram into that time.

I should have just chosen something easy and shoehorned it into my observation to make that relevant. It took me an hour to plan these sessions, but I'll only have thirty minutes in my assessment. Not sure how that's going to work! I keep feeling like I'll get more confident as I do it more but it doesn't feel like I'm moving in that direction, currently. I need to prepare the next session further in advance and learn it better. There was too much referring-back-to-the-sheet this evening which didn't help my confidence!