Now

Brno, Czechia. Last steeped: 2 October 2026.

This is a now page - what I'd tell you if we hadn't talked in a year.

First steep: work

Since late September I've been building a clinical-research data lake for a large consultancy's client. Python, AWS, Terraform, a lot of events going from one place to another. One trip to Prague for onboarding, a laptop, a lanyard I'll never wear again. Still fully remote.
The rest of the week: back-office systems for specialty insurance and legal-services firms, for the moment case volume outgrows spreadsheets and three inboxes. How I work.
Writing twice a week in Posts. Next up: why you should keep failed submissions.
Seneschal stays small, on purpose.

Settling into a house in Brno. As of this summer, the winter garden is legally a room. Paperwork remains the hardest material/negotiation I've ever worked on.
Considering making the cellar a gym now. Bench, a bar for deadlifts - the stairs to get down there should count, too.
Registered for Brno's municipal elections (9-10 October). EU citizen, local opinions.
Trying to meet all kinds of new people (if that's how you've gotten here, hey!)

Ran a Vaults of Vaarn TTRPG game. Session two is "soon", the way every RPG session is soon.
This period's tea obsession is Liu Bao. Still working up the nerve to brew the four golden coins from the 1980s.
Reading: Gideon the Ninth. Science-fantasy with space-Necromancers (distinct from the Techno-Necromancers from Alpha Centauri, mind you). Model cards for work, mostly - they come out faster than I can read them.
Metal blasting as usual, latest obsession's Cloven Hoof.

Conferences this autumn. Skipped travelling/applying on purpose.
Applying to Czech citizenship, my Czech isn't ready just yet (but we're getting there)
Moving to an office. One onboarding trip, then the train goes home.

Inspired by Derek Sivers' nownownow. If the date above is months old, nag me.