My theory is that some repair is needed


That was encouraging, saw a text in German that I understood … kind of. But I wasn’t really sure about certain words, so I used Google Translate to check what it really meant … and my translation was better. It looks like the last 9 months have increased my knowledge of German.



Lesson learned. About a year ago, I thought that my SmugMug subscription had become too expensive so I cancelled it. Spent a lot of time trying to find a solution that would be cheaper, more sustainable (regarding my long term economy), and make my life easier. Tried a few solutions, looked at even more - but the solution I come up was quite frail and required different parts/tools. End result was that I was uploading less photos, and it felt like too much work every time I needed to share something.

Recently, I learned a few things about what it going to happen the next 12 months and I realized that my current way of handling things wouldn’t work. It’s simply too fragmented and I spent too much time agonizing over how I should do things. And doing them also took too much time … time I rather spend on taking/editing photos and thinking about how I can improve.

So yes, I’m back at SmugMug and I already feel more relaxed. Expensive? Yep! Worth it: Well, I feel calmer and I’ve shared more photos the last few days than the last 9 months, so yep.


Be careful out there


Microsoft Teams … what a piece of crap


I’m not sure if I’m angry, relieved, frustrated or just amazed. I needed to use Teams so I downloaded Teams onto my phone (and felt quite dirty), tried to open the link I was invited to, no access, please login, used an old MS account that I haven’t used in 20 years or so, no access, please use another account, tried work account, no access, tried to create account with the same email address I got the invitation on, doesn’t work to create an account in Teams, tried Safari, please allow third party cookies, hell no, tried Brave, same thing - couldn’t find a way to allow third party cookies, Vivaldi, same thing, Firefox Focus, managed to log in … and got a page that said “use Teams app” 🤦🏻‍♂️ tries the app again, taps “use other account”, enter mail address of the new account, “this account doesn’t exist” (OK, I just managed to log in in the browser but … OK), taps create a new account, enters the same address and get “this account already exists” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️😡😡😡

OK I understand that this probably due to not allowing third party cookies in Safari but this soooo bad. This is 3h of my life that I will not get back.


Spent most of the day with my grandchildren … which made we wish that I was 30 years younger … which in turn would have resulted in some awkward conversations


Yay me, exams are marked … now I can move on to check student prerequisites before moving on to staff planning for the autumn … and probably, in the near future, have a non-pleasant conversation with an employee.