📒 September 2025

Someone at work shared a video about being your own destiny, rather than what is outside the hand. While another colleague lay down the challenge that sometimes we sabotage ourselves by the way we communicate and collaborate across teams. With this in mind, I found a gap in a proposed solution and used my initiative in creating a POC with Apps Script to rename files in Google Drive in bulk. The issue is that I feel that this should really be accounted for within the actual project scope? Is a team of individuals the most efficient approach to project work? I wonder if their is a fine line between ‘total football’ and chaos? Another aspect where this has played out is around problems with past projects, where issues have been raised long after the fact. This all led to time spent trawling through past emails and requests. I guess sometimes it is hard watching children grow up. Outside of all this, I have been doing quite a bit of work around writing tests for the changes associated with the upcoming upgrade.

On the home front, we celebrated Father’s Day. This included attending various school activities, such as spending time in the classroom, as well as a before-school breakfast. The best part, though, is always sharing the bounty—whether it was chocolate or licorice—with the rest of the family.

My wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary, which included going out to dinner at Russo Winery. (Funny how after so many years living in the same area, you can still find new places.)

I also attended my daughter’s performance of Shakespeare’s Soup.

As it has been school holidays, I took some time off work. While we didn’t get away, we certainly didn’t stop, managing to tick off quite a few projects and outings. Highlights included transforming the ‘kid’s play space’ into a ‘teenage space’, a fascinating visit to Sovereign Hill, a long-overdue trip to IKEA, and a memorable Daddy-Daughter Day exploring the city.

In regards to plogging, I was aiming at 100km, but got to 78km before I hit the wall (or maybe school holidays).

Here is a list of books that I read this month:

  • Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon: An exploration of the ideas of history, space and knowledge through the lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.
  • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: Arthur Dent discovers that Earth is to be destroyed to make way for a hyper-spatial express route and so his journey begins.
  • Fellowship of the Ring by J.J.R. Tolkien: Frodo Baggins sets out on the journey to destroy the one ring to rule them all, a journey destined only for him, supported by friends and comrades along the way.
  • Howard’s End by E.M. Forster: A probe into the connections between place, class and people.

In regards to my vinyl acquisitions, I added the following records to the mix:

While in support of Bandcamp Friday, I purchased the following album:

With regards to my writing, I wrote the following:

Podcasts that stood out this month:

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