It's been 6 months

Hello.

So.

Right then, where we we?

Oh yes, Airecon in March. That was great. I did Airecon in Manchester too last month but just for a day - that was alright. Would have been better travelling with people I knew rather than just going on my own but in the end up it worked out alright and I played quite a few games.

Finally got Outer Rim to the table this weekend - that was really good fun. Hopefully will get it to the table again soon, I just need to double check the rules as I’m not sure I moved the patrols around enough.

Just on the way back from travelling up to Edinburgh with work for an all day planning meeting yesterday. It being on a Monday meant that I had to travel up on Sunday. It was the train that I had to get to Swindon/back once before - the worst train journey I’ve ever had the mispleasure of having to ride. I remember a woman asking if she could sit next to me and she told me that usually she had to stand for four hours every single week. Nightmare. There was luggage all over the place and everything.

Luckily this time it was covered under the work first class policy due to travel time - but even so there were a bunch of people spilling into first class from the corridor between Darlington and Newcastle. At least this train back down south today is quiet. There’s only one over person here at the moment and the train is 9 carriages rather than 5. Huuuuge train. It doesn’t get to its final destination until 9pm. Imagine being on a train for 11 hours. Though I guess it wouldn’t be much less time driving from Edinburgh to Penzance - I’ve just checked, for the fastest train against driving, there’s about 17 minutes in it. And you wouldn’t be driving that long non-stop. So the train is probably going to be the best and easiest way to get to Penzance, as long as you weren’t wanting to do much in the way of driving around once you were down there.

Anyway I digress, back to the work trip…

Being in a room and being present all day without much opportunity to stretch your legs and grab a drink is really something I struggle with now - I never liked it before Covid, but now it just feels so draining. I get that for some people its super energising and they get a lot out of meeting up with people. It just has the opposite effect on me.

And on that.

I got my official diagnosis. I am autisic. All done privately through the healthcare at work and it was very speedy. Got the kids through theirs too, Luke is Autistic and has ADHD, Harry is Autistic.

So we just need to get Kayleigh through her diagnosis and then we’ll have a full set. I wonder if there’s a prize.

I’m getting some CBT as part of my diagnosis to help me out a bit with some of the things I struggle with. It’s been quite useful - but I think the diagnosis itself has also been quite useful - knowing that there’s a reason for me thinking or feeling a certain way or doing a certain thing. It’s helped me to be a little more forgiving to myself.

I don’t really even know what the point of this blog is anymore.

I guess part of the reason I wrote so much was because of the autism, a lot of it is probably classed as oversharing.

I’m pretty sure nobody reads it anyways.

But at least its still got a little AWS experience embedded in it - even if it is just a few pipelines to upgrade an S3 bucket.

Bye for now - no promises as to when the next update might be.