Jealous of those who have meeting-free Fridays as a stare at my list of (currently) seven calls over the day. 5:30 can't come soon enough!

Demonstrated an AMAZING bit of code from one of my team during today’s company all-hands that everyone’s suddenly super interested in getting in front of clients. My team are amazing.

A rare day where any meetings are brief internal ones, meaning I can focus on some actual reports and data processing!

Working from home alone today. Managed to be incredibly productive so far!

This week: plan out a client employee experience report, review the impact of QR code invitations on satisfaction scores, automate some executive reports, process some massive files in SPSS. Busy!

Weekend plans: hoping that everyone's not still ill. Would quite like to do something fun please.

Task for today - calculating confidence intervals on Net Promoter Scores. I really should write a blogpost on the logic behind this some day.

One of those days where there's a lot of faffy tricky work to be doing but I really just want to carry on reading my current book.

Plan for today: usual client work, then post-work, post-holiday mountain of ironing. The worst part of coming home from holiday.

Back at work after a very long two weeks away. I'm scared to open my emails...

Current location: back in the UK. Almost home.

Current location: somewhere in the North Sea. 52.6233° N, 2.47655° E

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Current location: Olden, Norway. 61.84355° N, 6.81057° E

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A super quiet Easter Sunday. Had a long walk listening to music, had some chocolate, dozed on the sofa.

A relatively idle day. Haircut, coffee, family, maybe some Steam Deck later on. A day the word “pootling” was made to describe.

Emails: CLEARED. Out of office: ON. Party mode: ENGAGED.

Two weeks off starts here!

Unlocked Solitaire on my e-reader. Managed to stay up until gone midnight playing it, like I'd just installed Windows 95 all over again.

A lot of clients wanting brainstorming sessions at the moment. Keeping my spirits up with seasonal hot cross buns.

This week: planning, scheduling, and making sure the team are prepped ahead of taking a fortnight off from Friday onwards.

Keen to wrap up the weeks' work to get onto starting an early birthday celebration. Ooh..!

The equinox! The official start of Spring! It's not entirely dark and miserable! Hooray!!

A day of admin, pricing specs, job descriptions, and general anything-but-data-analysis. Hey ho.

How nice to wake up to blue skies so early in the morning. Spring's almost here...

Aside from a supermarket visit I've not properly left the house due to illness in a fortnight. Looking forward to stretching my legs tomorrow!!

Having tremendous fun running a Family Fortunes style quiz at work. It's surprising the answers my colleagues have given on the 'best emoji' question..!

Recovering from illness. Slowly getting back to work and on top of the to-do list.

Suffering with an almighty headcold. Quiet, tea, and sleep today thanks.

Today's fun: establishing whether reference material for weighting some survey data is going to be robust enough or not.

Today: briefings, meetings, planning, and maybe even some data analysis at some point. Maybe.

A bittersweet day - saying goodbye to a colleague who is just the absolute best but is (deservedly) moving on to bigger and better things.

Beginning the arduous journey of starting to formally explore the property market for the first time in a decade this evening. Wish me luck...

End of month, therefore it's admin-and-timecard-chasing season.

Spent a chunk of last night considering whether to migrate from Bear.app over to Obsidian, including moving my micro.blog to Obsidian Publish. A quick import of my notes shows that the Obsidian file structure really isn't for me! Phew. Tinkering averted.

Trying to keep client requests to a minimum this week while a lot of my team are on annual leave. Success so far: marginal.

Trying to keep the momentum going on doing 30 minutes of static cycling a day. A post-work session's on the cards for today, which I need to find the enthusiasm for.

Catching up on some client requests, then heading out for a team meeting. I get to work with people in real life today!!

Haircut, then some prep and planning for our Norwegian adventure in a few weeks! Better buy some thermals.

Unexpected three day weekend! Going to finish up my final tasks (timesheets, natch) then take things very calmly indeed.

A day supporting my team while they're presenting their PHENOMENAL work to clients. Dang I love this group of clever people.

One of those days where I'm only just getting round to making a drink for myself. Absorbing work is often the best kind.

Feeling refreshed and energised after a brilliant weekend away. Today's tasks: helping an airline client, updating an NPS simulator, keeping the team on track.

Getting ready for a party weekend by... doing loads of admin. Hooray?

Today: creating simulators and marvelling at the INSANE data manipulation that my team is able to do. Bunch of heroes, the lot of them.

Spent some time over the past few evenings migrating some old blogposts to bendaubney.blog. I wrote about music a lot. Currently enjoying this phenomenal album I wrote about over ten years ago (!):

One of those back-to-back meeting sort of days. Client calls, sales call, product development calls (!), briefings, all the fun of the fair.

Back at the digital coalface. Today: figuring out Google Colab, designing some dashboards, doing some weighing.

A quiet, hopeful, reflective day today. Still plugging away at the data mines but thinking about loved ones.

A day where I’m working surrounded by my actual colleagues!! In real life!! Not on Zoom!! What a treat.

VERY glad we're at the end of January. Roll on some brighter, more joyful months.

Somehow my day is moreorless entirely dedicated to emails - client emails, admin emails, timecard emails. Admin, eh?

Working on plans, targets, and strategies. Enigmatic.

A day all on my own as I'm working from home and I'm the only one in the house. Hoping not to go stir crazy by 5pm.

Making the most of a quiet admin-focused morning ahead of an afternoon of meetings

A fun day in January! A day wandering around London, seeing the Totoro stage show at the Barbican, staying in a hotel, and enjoying the winter sunshine. Ideal!

A day of meetings, staying warm, and finishing off documentation and reports before having an exciting day of leave tomorrow.

At client offices all day. Tell you what - traffic really sucks huh? WFH for the win.

A Monday of planning: partly figuring out plans for my team for the year but also planning how to avoid the cold this week. Looks chilly...

Today’s plan: nice coffee, nice lunch, nice trip to the old cinema. Nice!

Such a busy week that I didn't get a chance to exercise this morning. Going to do a few miles after work then settle in to a very restful weekend.

Looks like everyone's back from annual leave now. Busy busy busy!

A day of finalising reports, chatting to my lovely team, then figuring out how to get around the floods in the area this evening

Easy to let the long dark days get you down at the moment, but we had three minutes more daytime today compared to yesterday!! The days are getting longer!

A day of report writing today, looking at some NPS trends over time.

First day back after the festive break and I managed to set a 9am team meeting. I've been as gentle with my team as I can to apologise for this appalling bit of managerial oversight.

Starting the new year virtuously - a short(ish) lie-in, a long walk, some ironing, and a wholesome meal cooking all afternoon. May ruin it by having an awful amount of cheese. Only fair, right?

Getting ready to wave goodbye to a so-so year. Happy 2024 everyone!!

End-of-advent plan for today: visit nieces and nephews, battle the hordes trying to track down the last of the festive food shopping, cook a MASSIVE ham, maybe play some video games if I get the chance.

Getting emails archived, reports finished, and documentation wrapped up before finishing for the year.

The annual clear out of my work spam filter... and, yet again, it's almost all from Lead Forensics desperately trying to sell to an inappropriate lead. They're nothing if not persistent.

Somehow I've managed to get a load of work done... which means I'm starting on trickier data weighting early when I could be deferring it into January. Glutton for punishment today!

Getting the last reports and documentation done ahead of the Christmas break. Almost there...

Spending the day reviewing reports created by the rest of my team before they go to clients. Easiest thing to do because my team are flipping A-MAZING.

Unusually I have no plans this evening. Do I wrap up presents, try to finish my book, or kick around in GTA for a while? Hmm.

Knocking reports and client meetings out of the park today. Five down, six to go!

Suddenly very aware that there's not many working days left of the year and a LOT of work to get done. Looks like a head-down-with-music-blaring kind of day.

Played Day Of The Tentacle for an hour and got about halfway through. It’s remarkable that I remember so much of it since first playing it sometime around 1994.

Spent a bit of time last night upgrading my Steam Deck from 64GB to 1TB and it's laughably simple. Cannot believe that it's possible to get a fully-fledged gaming PC for about £300 all-in.

The sudden realisation that there's three weeks of work left for the year and a LOT to get done! Eek.

Got an early screening of Napoleon booked. Hooray for fun historical epics, boo to three hour films.

A day of ploughing through briefs and proposals while listening to music. Right now, it's an excellent Edywn Collins and Orange Juice compilation, including one of my favourite songs of all time:

One of those days where I've a ton of work to do and an endless parade of meetings. The two do not mix well!

Halfway through doing annual assessments for my lovely team. They're all such a joy! I love this group of people.

A very varied day ahead: many client calls, some unpicking of R code for documentation, a bit of ironing later on, and maybe, just maybe, my Steam Deck will arrive and I'll have fun setting that up. Nice!

A day of one-to-ones, prep, annual reviews, grocery shopping, and building new exercise bikes. Nothing if not varied!

End of a long week. Plan for the weekend: buy a new notebook, go record shopping, chill out a bit. Autumn!

A rare get together with my team! Mostly spending the day brainstorming new insight plans for clients

Spending the bulk of the day doing in-depth one-to-ones with my amazing team. Best part of my job!

A day working alone at home... which I've managed to entirely fill with client calls so I can't enjoy the peace! Hey ho.

Plan for today: streamlining old processes, battling Jira, pitching to new clients, keeping my team on track.

Time for a walk around Christchurch meadow while avoiding the Oxford tourists

Waiting patiently for my wife to wake up before making a plan for the day. Hoping the drizzle passes and we can go for a bit of a walk

Today: pulling a lot of CSVs into a lot of different pivots and summary files. And chatting to my lovely team in one-to-ones.

Back at my work desk. Today's task is a lot of documentation - the least fun thing, but the most useful later on.