Well. Has been an extremely busy few weeks, which resulted in me not doing week notes last week.

In better 2019 goals news, you may recall that a few weeks ago I broke my pledge to not buy anything new by ordering something from the UK to beet the Brexit deadline. Unfortunately the product will be delayed, so I had to cancel the order as the manufacturer can not commit to it being shipped pre-Brexit, and I refuse to waste a day with Spanish customs. Annoying, but the silver lining is I can still truthfully claim to not have bought anything new this year.

Took a fun trip to Hamburg and then Berlin for a few days. A mix of catching up with old friends (by coincidence saw many ex-yahoos from way back in the day). Also met with various advisors to set out the plan on converting OpenCage into a GmbH. The project is moving forward. Also moving forward is the plan to spend July and August in Berlin again as we have did in 2014 and 2017. Let me knowif you have a great apartment you want me to rent for two months.

Back in Barcelona, we had our first bootstrappers’ lunch. Good time, will do it again.

Relatedly, was delighted to see that the date for MicroConf Europe has been set for October. Will definitely attend and may volunteer to speak.

I’ve been contemplating how to leave Facebook.

A friend from Germany quit his job and unexpectedly came to visit for four days. Was good fun, but destroyed the schedule. Happily though we had perfect weather, and I spent the days re-seeing BCN through the eyes of a tourist.

Am delighted that my friend Muthu from Geoawesomeness is organizing the first #geomobMUC on April 11th, though I unfortunately won’t be able to attend due to Easter break.

I’ll be in London in mid-March for #geomob. Schedule is still fairly open, ping me if you’d like to meet up.

Related to all that we redesigned the #geomob website, moved it to a new domain, got a new logo, set up a mailing list (sign up now), and generally made it less London-centric.

all the travel and visitors meant my gym/swim schedule has been fairly hit or miss. Am getting back into it this week.