My accomplishments for the week
- Helped implement a new call centre management system at work
- Made shake ‘n’ bake for the first time
- Had a long chat with the mother of a friend I don’t really know that well
- Got through two days without saying a word to anyone, one of them at work
- Got over my perfectly reasonable disgust towards cough syrup
- Annoyed my cat
- Ordered a laptop backpack
- Ran out of socks
- Made butternut squash soup (admittedly from a package)
- Went outside despite it being cold and scary
- Convinced Wil Shipley to upgrade his version of desktop Twitterrific to 3.2
So what about you? What did you accomplish this week?
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