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    Went for a walk around the neighbourhood today and discovered a sewing shop just a few blocks away! 😍

    Went for a walk around the neighbourhood today and discovered a sewing shop just a few blocks away! 😍


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    Thursday morning ritual – joining in the Zoom chat for my Sydney knitting group. ❤️🧶

    Thursday morning ritual - joining in the Zoom chat for my Sydney knitting group. ❤️🧶


  • Shared today on Twitter

    @crankymate Quite possibly, mein Herr, but I refuse to wear a bowler hat.


    Thanks to the new timezone, I get to wake up to The Sizzle in my inbox each morning now… and today the Snook had to message and tell me my coffee was getting cold because I was still in bed reading and laughing at this. 😂👍 https://t.co/HUomVoUnlP


    RT @meakoopa: sometimes people are like “do you know [person’s] work?” and i am like “no” but then i look them up on twitter and it’s like…


    This is a QUILT?? This is amazing. 😍 https://t.co/PtwGZjAbzT


    @Silanota Oh no, really? I’ve been following for a while but haven’t seen any hint of that in the posts.


    @Silanota Okay, did some digging. How disappointing. Thanks for letting me know.


    @FourRedShoes The Snook has been trying to research whether they are related. Could be. There aren’t that many Aussie Snooks.


    OMG. I signed up to the Lego site just so I could vote for this. TAKE MY MONEY NOW. 😍

    https://t.co/RlX6sEXBlc


    @stevelikesyou One of us is a morning person. One… is not.


    RT @supercoco9: Hey! @darkosubotica, @cobusbernard and yours truly will be live at our AWS EMEA Ask Me Anything in just a couple of minutes…


    RT @rdjacko: AWS is generating £8.7bn in value for UK businesses – the equivalent of 0.4% of the UK’s (GDP) – more than Premier League, or…


    It is still very very weird to set something down in the house without worrying about a cat eating it or knocking it on the floor or covering it in fur.


    @randomknits One came to the backdoor yesterday. I opened it to say hello, and he walked up like he was going to come inside! I think there are a lot of strays…


    RT @TrentKusters: Spice must flow, says Harkonnen boss https://t.co/8oFZSSqKPO



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Ahh, the birthday inverse. I remember when we figured that out. Hope it’s a good one!


    I literally signed up to the Lego site just so I could vote for this. AMAZING. TAKE MY MONEY NOW.


    LOOK AT THIS QUILT



  • Shared today on Twitter

    I’m going to be live streaming the AWS DACH (Germany/Australia/Switzerland) Office Hours with @dtraub in just over an hour! 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 https://t.co/jc3MqvQc6o


    RT @darkosubotica: Did You wish to run ARM instances on AWS, but just didn’t want to commit to those pesky M6 or C6 ones 🤔

    <Prof. Farnswor…


    RT @NWheeler_CMP: https://t.co/fIJ40YGfep


    With apologies to the entire nation of Austria… I am going to be making that error a lot in the next few months. 😂 https://t.co/EeEeEq9qNw


    @simonwaight @dtraub LOL. Every damn time!


    @simonwaight @dtraub If only Twitter had an edit button. 🤦‍♀️


    @vertis Twenty years of muscle memory to unlearn…


    RT @dtraub: We’re live: The AWS DACH Office Hours. Join us, and ask any question you might have all around AWS. My guest today is Kris Howa…


    @MelissaKaulfuss @vertis SAME!


    @MelissaKaulfuss @vertis I’m two weeks in, but my first time on a stream!


    RT @danilop: You can share your CloudWatch dashboards with people who do not have direct access to your AWS account. This enables you to di…


    @IanMmmm I’m half tempted to set up a keyboard macro… 😂


    RT @laurahelmuth: For the first time in the 175-year history of Scientific American, we are endorsing a political candidate. Please vote fo…



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Who wants to see me try to speak German? 😃 I’m excited to join my colleague Dennis for the first time on the AWS DACH Office Hours stream in just over 20 minutes… 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭



  • Shared today on Twitter

    @the_nathanjones I haven’t had my hair cut or dyed since the beginning of the year, and the hair dryer is on the boat. Pigtails were born of desperation. 😂


    @MelissaKaulfuss @GWOTW RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. 😂


    @friendlyunit 😳


    @the_nathanjones Tempted to “pull a Nath” and shave it all off! 😂


    @the_nathanjones WhileI would love to rock the Furiosa look, sadly I have a giant round basketball head. I’d be Charlie Brown. 🏀


    @the_nathanjones I dyed it pink many years ago for a Harry Potter event. Loved it, except for turning all my pillowcases pink. 😂 https://t.co/lAyD0kPEDx


    @BronwenZ @lynnlangit @hankadusikova @Felienne @Doctor_Astro @lindaliukas @jessitron @julielerman @jules_kremer @VdaGeraldine @BekahHW @MariaPloessl @datachick @allPowerde @kytrinyx @SRobTweets @aprilwensel @jennapederson That heart-stopping moment when you wake up to a flurry of twitter notifications and wonder if it was something good or bad… in this case very good! Thank you @lynnlangit ❤️


    RT @johndalton: Fans of the soap opera that is the Australian Computer Society’s continued fumbling irrelevance to actual IT professionals…


    @moviemazz Lili Taylor was the MVP of that movie for me…


    RT @jbesw: How to upload directly to Amazon S3 from a web or mobile application. This is one of the most popular questions I get asked – ch…


    RT @dtraub: Morgen um 12:00 Uhr geht’s wieder los: Die AWS-Sprechstunde live im Stream, in der ihr all eure Fragen rund um AWS stellen könn…


    RT @ceeoreo_: Aaaand it’s up!! My first installation of Learn AWS With Me is live 🥳🥳

    If you want to avoid getting unexpected AWS bills, th…


    RT @mrwiblog: This. I’ve met many devs who dislike PHP essentially because it’s easy. They *want* coding to be hard, to keep people out of…



  • Shared today on Twitter

    @simonwaight Actually the plan we’re on now is half the download speed we had in Australia, but we’re looking to upgrade…


    @JessicaCGlenn Came with it. We are paying far more than we would for a normal apartment, but we figured it was worth it.


    @NickyWill100 Haha, thank you!! ❤️


    @zbendr The red LEDs you mean? They actually aren’t red, I discovered. They’re white but the fixture has red perspex along the sides.


    @zbendr Interesting. I’ll have to get a cake to try it out! 😂


    @verbaliza AMAZING. Nailed it.


    RT @stroebel_econ: I have spent half of 2020 in 🗽🇺🇸, and half in 🇩🇪.

    I have never appreciated the values and ideals of a “Soziale Marktwir…


    RT @riffwithbiff: Sure, sex is good, but have you ever taken a catch in the crowd while wearing a pair of aviators and sucking back a dart?…


    Guten Tag! Today we are at a palace. ❤️ https://t.co/NLHeXDeRwE https://t.co/uAa33WyJ1E


    @damana Masks in shops, taxis, public transport, or wherever you can’t distance. Outdoors is generally fine without.


    We walked all over the Schloß Nymphenburg park today. I do love a formal garden… https://t.co/BozYrkmSVB


    …but there is also a lot of rambly wilderness “in the English style,” and we saw lots of ducks, geese, carp, and even a deer! https://t.co/9UBKtN5m8G


    Stumbled across Pan chilling out in the forest… https://t.co/kpZTKXa2IK


    Bacchus.🍷🍇😏 https://t.co/KvQAgI9Bk9 https://t.co/hNJQPiPxfV


    For anyone who had a bet going, the first one to set off the smoke alarm while cooking was me, in under a week. 😬🔥💨


    RT @rumireports: Look it’s working 👇

    Japanese TV introducing the story behind each person on @NaomiOsaka’s masks throughout the tournament…


    @mattstratton @shelbyspees I saw him give a keynote a few years back that purported to cover the history of programming. It began with Alan Turing. Literally no women mentioned at all. I saw one of the other speakers – a prominent woman CTO – facepalming. I think she talked to him after…


    @mattstratton @shelbyspees …as the next time he gave the talk, suddenly there were slides of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. I was grateful that someone with more industry clout than me spoke up.


    Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️ https://t.co/Eu0t740YEW https://t.co/jME3asZFAc



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Guten Tag! Today we are at a palace. ❤️


    Communing with art and nature at Schloß Nymphenburg today!


    Bacchus.🍷🍇😏


    Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️


    HAPPY BIRTHDAY JJ! I hope Bobbino Cubano does something nice for you. (And your actual family, of course.) 😂



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    Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️

    Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️



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