Today was the first time I had to be really cross with our little one. With a friend she had used a set of color markers to not just draw on the board intended for it, but everywhere else in her room as well. The door, the walls, the floor, lightswitches, all the furniture such as her bed including the sheets, the lamps and her piggy bank, the Sonos speaker, the toys in her room, and the poster frames on her wall. The door and the wall can’t be cleaned and will need a new coat of paint at some point. The rest luckily could be wiped clean quickly.
@ton Oh dear. I think every kid has done something like that. It looks like you have an enthusiastic artist there!
@macgenie yes, likely all of us have done something like it as kids. I wasn’t really angry, although it was disappointing as she should know better. But had to give clear feedback to her of course. And in a while we’ll paint the walls and the door, and then all trace will have gone 😀
I side with Daughter 😉
It’s hard not to! Disappointing was that just the day before this happened, she accidentally made a stripe on the wall next to her whiteboard with a marker. She tried to clean it up without us noticing, and I talked with her about how an accident can happen but she shouldn’t write on anything other than her whiteboard on purpose. Then 24 hours later we get this ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ where no surface in her room was left unmarked.
A pretty regular week in which I
Switched my calendar to our Nextcloud
Wrote a project proposal for a follow-up with an existing client
Attended a session with 60 or so entrepreneurs that are also Dutch Mensa members
Had a full day looking at the data governance aspects of a office space monitor, which data a government body should require during procurement concerning circular economy, and mapped out data streams around current catering services of a client, also concerning circular economy
Planned next steps for a client’s data publishing platform and publishing process
Had a team meeting and client meeting on our progress in the European research for the high value data sets that will be part of the upcoming European open data legislation
Had my monthly catch-up with the director of the Open State Foundation (where I’m a volunteer board member)
Discussed how to be transparant concerning the use of algorithms for the half a dozen ‘significant’ or novel ones a client uses/
Had to confront the ‘artistic expression‘ of Y and her friend
This week in …… 1883*
Lewis Waterman invented the three fissure feed for fountain pens this week in 1883. And went on to create the Waterman fountain pen company.
A Waterman fountain pen, image by M Dreibelbis, license CC BY
(* I show an openly licensed image with each Week Notes posting, to showcase more open cultural material. See here why, and how I choose the images for 2020.)
Project Pink