Weekly Wrap 629: An easy week with plenty of time to remember the snow

My week of Monday 13 to Sunday 19 June 2022 was a short one, and relatively easy. Or to put it another way, I was lazy. There was a podcast. There was some planning. And there was clear, sunny weather — if a little cold. A nice change after weeks of La Niña, and a strange contrast to last year’s June snow.

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The Week Ahead

My main work focus this week will be on the continuing SEKRIT geek-work and editorial consulting. I’ll also assemble a list of some of my better writing so I can look for freelance journalism gigs in the new financial year.

On Tuesday I’m heading down to Sydney for some health-related things and to mark the Solstice, which for me is the Winter Solstice at 7.08pm AEST or whatever that is in your timezone.

Immediately after that it’s Bond on Tuesday time. This week we return to the main sequence of Eon films with You Only Live Twice (1967) starring Sean Connery. Get ready at 8.30pm AEST. We press PLAY at 8.40pm.

I’ll return to the Blue Mountains on Wednesday after some more errands and lunch with a co-conspirator and shopping.

[Update 23 June 2022: Let’s adjust this a little.] On Thursday At the end of the week I’m recording a solo episode of The 9pm Edict, because I want to chat about the first month of the new Albanese government. And other things too. It’ll be posted same-day Friday or perhaps Saturday.

Further Ahead

We’re slowly starting to slot in some things for the second half of the year.

  • See that featured image on the front page of this website? It’s coming up to 20 years old. On 4 July 2022 I’ll re-create it.
  • TechLeaders Forum 2022, Leura NSW, 21–22 August 2022. After a hiatus during the Quarantimes, this once-annual gathering for tech journalists is returning for 2022. Its purpose is for industry PR people to meet the journos who cover their clients.
  • APNIC 54, Singapore and online, 13–15 September 2022. I daresay I wont be travelling physically to Singapore, but we’ll see.
  • NetThing: Australia’s Internet Community Forum, online, 27–28 October 2022 (TBC).

[Photo: Following all the weeks of wet and windy weather of La Niña, it’s now sunny and dry in the Blue Mountains. Around this time last year it was snowing. As proof, here’s the Alexandra Hotel, Leura, photographed on 10 June 2021.]