With our 3yr old I visited the zoo yesterday. It was a chilly but beautiful sunny day and we explored the zoo together for 5 hours. Driving a little electric car on her own, taking the zoo train and riding a dolphin on the merry-go-round. Pancake for lunch obviously.
Biggest adventures were walking the rope bridge over the bear pit,
and following a hidden trail she discovered which led over tree stems across a pond, through a little cave and what she called the ‘jungle’, to the very back corner of the tiger enclosure (a path dimensioned more to her length than my so I had to duck most of the way). There we came upon a sleeping tiger which we watched and discussed for a long while.
A pretty regular week, finally.
This week I
Noted my blog reached its 17th anniversary, and reflected on my tech activism in the past year.
Did the corporate yearly tax administration for my 2 limited companies
Did the individual and personal company tax returns for both E and me
Answered questions from potential service providers, for a province where I am guiding a public tendering process for an open data publishing platform
Worked on energy poverty and open data, and on open data for nitrogen deposition issues
Wrote out last week’s talk at the Dutch CoderDojo Conference
Discussed 2020 plans with a client
Spent a day at a province working on their open data publishing processes/roles and data governance
Spent a day with the 3yr old at the local zoo
Was interviewed for the Micro.blog podcast which should get published tomorrow.
Heard a key research project in our field has been awarded to our bid consortium
photo by Carsten, license CC BY SA