Happy Holidays
For my American audience, happy Independence Day! And for my UK audience, happy “Tories can fuck off for a decade day”. Yes, it’s voting day here in the UK and the conservatives should hopefully lose the government. Not that Labour are much better but beggars can’t be choosers.
The Car
For a few weeks now the car’s been behaving strangely, first the throttle kept getting stuck at full when I pushed the clutch down causing the engine to rev uncontrollably. The only way to fix it being to let go of the clutch. Then about two weeks ago, the engine light came on and the computer threw up a slew of errors, and it felt like the car was in limp mode.
Turns out, the engine and computer fault was down to the glow plugs ALL being faulty. I knew at least 3 were because the car was almost impossible to start in the winter.
The car wasn’t in limp mode though. That ending up being the actuator arm on the turbo having become detached. Didn’t even know I had a turbo!
Anyways, got that all fixed for about £350 and the thing feels like it has power that wasn’t even there originally. Maybe the actuator was never attached correctly?
Health and Weight
About a decade ago I found myself exceedingly heavy and unfit. About 120 kg. So, I set myself 3 goals. The first was to get under 100 kg. I did that in 2019. The 2nd was to get under 90 kg. Last week, I did that too. Now, my final goal is to get to 79 kg - the same as I weighed in high school and in no way, shape or form overweight. The end is near.
And the New Job?
One of my favourite gigs of all time was working with Tesco Bank, but I’ve got to admit, so far, MAK System is a pretty close second.
The team members are friendly and competent. The code base and technology choices are sane, but not so perfect that there isn’t technical debt to get one’s teeth into.
And the developers are just the right shade of aggravating and awkward. Enough to give me something to complain to the missus about, but not enough to cause any real issues at all.