On my way home after working late.

There are Pokemons at Coop.

Walking around with Adrian fully engrossed in Pokemon Go is not like normal walking. It goes in fits and starts, and he talks about nothing else, so it’s rather dull for me. But when Pokemon Go gets him out of the house, moving around in some fresh air, then it’s better than nothing.

A gray day.

It’s hard to do a sunrise full justice in a photo.

Morning view of Karlberg, on my way to work.

On Tuesdays, the kids have their Estonian lesson in the afternoon, so they finish school at the same time. I’ve been picking them up afterwards until now, but this morning I asked if they could come home on their own. They had no problem with that.

I get the prettiest morning light and autumn colours on my way to work at this time of the year.

A nightmare of a day at work.

We have a major release planned for 17:00. Four hours before release, key functionality that we really, really want to get out to customers is still not release-ready.

The web site is down already when I get into the office at 8. Infrastructure issues at our hosting provider. At 15:40 the application, the thing our customers are paying for and the thing we want to upgrade, also goes down.

At this time I go out for a long walk to clear my head of all the frustration, and take some photos of the neighbourhood.

(When I come back, all the servers are still down. We take a pizza break and start preparing ourselves mentally for having to cancel the release that we’ve been planning for since before summer. At the very last moment, when we are minutes away from cancelling, the servers come back online and we forge ahead after all.)