On a Sort of Friday Five for the 7th of April

[danieldwilliam]

This will be some form of five things make a Friday and weekend round up. It may run to some, all or none of five items.

1) I attended a General Data Protection Regulation information seminar at Microsoft's offices. They have nice offices. GDPR looks like it is going to be a) a bit of a pain for my company as we are a bit too small to have dedicated systems for handling it but it poses a bit of reputational risk to us if we breach the regulations.

What will be fun is the right, for free, to make a Subject Access Request. I wonder how long it will take Momentum to figure out that if they can persuade 50,000 of their member to make a SAR to each Conservative Party branch they could bankrupt the Tory party.

2) The highlight of the gym last week as a new personal best at the deadlift of 120 kgs. That felt heavy. Other than that some thinking about preparations for touch rugby over the next few months.

3) My daughter headed south for the second half of her Easter holidays on Wednesday. It's been lovely seeing her.

4) The drains underneath our block of flats seem to be blocked again. They are just not quite big enough to cope with 21st Century usage and I suspect have been overloaded by the recent wet weather. There is the lingering aroma of drains in back of our flat. The last time this happened MLW attacked the problem with some drain unblocker and ended up melting the kitchen sink. The Captain continues to be sceptical of the use of candles in the house. I may end up having at the problem with some sort of long bendy stick.

5) The Captain is tired and has done enough Vikings, thank you very much.

6) We have been to Yorkshire for a long weekend. We stayed with MLW's friends. We went to a park and I had a ride on an electric scooter, a pedal powered go-kart and an electric boat and climbed many things. Other people did similar. The next day we went to the Railway Museum in York. I enjoyed that also. Nerf guns were deployed with extreme prejudice. Then we came home on the train.

7) Someone liked the cottage so much that they asked if they could extend their stay.

8) MLW is preparing for her TED talk in St Andrews.

Comments

[mountainkiss]

What's particularly confusing about this is that 7th April is neither today nor Friday.

[danieldwilliam]

I don't think that that greatly detracts from the essence of the post though.

[mountainkiss]

It doesn't. It just made me laugh.

[danieldwilliam]

That's probably the best outcome from the whole post.

[alithea]

Much sympathy on the drains issue. The council came out and did something with ours in the back garden the other week and made the close downstairs reek to high heaven. On the plus side, that was apparently what it takes to get someone to clean the close! On the minus side, they also made an attempt at removing the dry rot in the window sill downstairs, I strongly suspect without using any actual fungicide on it...

[mountainkiss]

Happy birthday Lyd. Hope this is a great year for her.

What is YLW's TED talk about?

[danieldwilliam]

It is about continuous self-coaching during periods of uncertainty.

[mountainkiss]

Topical.

[danieldwilliam]

Indeed but sadly not Tropical.

I'm sure she'd rather be delivering the talk in St Andrews, Grenada rather than St Andrews, Fife.

[mountainkiss]

I was going to say “I’m sure anyone would” but then realised I wouldn’t at all.

[danieldwilliam]

I'm slightly surprised by that - I'd have expected you to go for somewhere warm over somewhere on the North Sea.--

[mountainkiss]

Not if it involves flying.

[danieldwilliam]

Ah yes.

Absent the use of a large motor yacht flying would be needed to get to Grenada.

[mountainkiss]

Could the Conservative Party do the same to Momentum?

[danieldwilliam]

They could in theory. In practice it's harder for them. Momentum has about three times the membership of the entire Tory Party, Tory Party members are less likely to get the concept of a DDOS attack and probably less marshallable and they are members of the actual party rather than of an affiliated organisation.

I'm not sure what branch structure Momemtum has and whether that makes them vulnerable or not.

[mountainkiss]

Gotcha.