Calendar Week 30

The past week was the first week on the new steady job really, and suffice to say it was a busy week. So for the time being I am going to steal the This Week in My/Our Life concept from Berg and Third Wave, and I’ll also go back to posting in English which works much faster for me and I save time editing. I’ll use this spot to address what might have been single extra blog posts if I were more motivated to blog/would put more time into blogging.

Last week was onboarding, company-wise for about an hour and then down deep into projects and numbers. Getting up to speed in a still new environment, getting to know the new colleagues a bit more each day, prepping for the advent of new colleagues on August 1st (that was today), and laying foundation for the future. Add to that a welcome beer on Thursday, it was all good.

Wednesday evening was a big step forward as I went to the gym for inline hockey practice for the second week in a row. There was an attempt three years ago to revitalize my sports career (I must have stopped somewhere around 2003), but it was ill-timed and short-lived. Muscle-ache was killing me on Thursday but the thrill is back and I look forward to Wednesday.

Fliplife.com made a short comeback when I found an email in my inbox that I had been awarded some points. Which I of course checked out. The current version looks even better than the one they started out with, I think they’ll do well. That carefully worded email was a nice trick though.

It might just be me, but the returned-rivva.de is not improved for the better. The link selection is often repetitive instead of grouped (aka two or three separate threads which should be one), and the (for lack of a better word) curation is odd. Relevance has suffered a bit and I am not checking it as often as I used to.

When I originally blogged about Empire Avenue I also mentioned Chris Penn’s theory that most players will run down their stack of coins and lose interest. So either I am brilliant or his theory has a flaw: By investing in high dividend stock I basically make money sitting around. Once or twice a week I spend about 100 seconds on the site to reinvest 4-7k Eaves and that’s that. My own stock obviously took a dive from lack of activity (hurt even more since I haven’t tweeted much in the last weeks), but who looks at those numbers anyway 😉

See you next Monday.