MIQ Musings – Day 11

MIQ Diary – Day 11 – If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll wait forever.

430am wake-up again. I’ve decided I can live with it, so I will make it a part of me.

I gave my sister in the UK another call and we made more plans, sorted more issues. It’s good to make progress. We know once Steve’s estate is in the hands of the lawyers, things will slow to a glacial pace, but we also know we will have done our best, which is all that really matters. Let’s see what happens…

The software release started at 8am and was done by 820am. Zero defects as anticipated. All is well. We can now focus on newer, bigger things.

I don’t say this often enough but I am very impressed with the team – they are achieving a lot with little time, money or resource. I’m truly bemused by the amount of waste in my industry. In my opinion, you have no claim to agility or innovation unless you’ve achieved something great with bugger all money and bugger all people. If you want to know how to do that, drop me a line. My rates are very reasonable. Actually just buy me a beer.

Spreadsheet hell day…4? I am losing count.

Duolingo has been my constant companion for several years now, and has also been a great way to while away the time in isolation. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a language learning app. It’s heavily gamified, and lots of fun. My Spanish is pidgin, but I could probably get by now. I started in 2019 in preparation to visit Galapagos for my 50th. That trip got canned in March 2020, a week before we were due to leave, but I continued with the Spanish lessons just in case we still get there one day. Hope springs eternal. Anyway if you want to learn a language, I do recommend Duolingo.

I received a survey from the MIQ people so I spent some time completing it. Hopefully some of the feedback gets to where it needs to be. Despite my overwhelmingly-positive description of MIQ here, it’s not a holiday, you know, and could do with some improvements to make things a bit more bearable for others, if not for me.

Tomorrow is Day 12 – the third and final COVID test, where the bleeding obvious will be stated categorically for the third and final time – I don’t have the damned virus!