Met my newborn nephew for the first time over the weekend. He's very cute, wriggles a lot and makes a huge amount of snuffling noises. While visiting, my brother took me to his monthly poker night with his friends. 9 of us around a table, and I had no fucking clue how to play poker. 5 hours later I was in the last three, staring down some seasoned card wranglers. I credit my success to being impossible to predict. After all, if I don't know what I'm doing, how can they? I bowed out quickly once I was at that stage, but it was a good time. Lots of beers, watched the rugby (a nice distraction when I discovered I had a full house but had to play it cool) and headed home about 1am. Then we played games till about 3am, but of course Daylight Savings kicked in that night and it became 4am immediately - oh my poor head the next morning. Following on from this, I reached out to the head of IT in our organization to discuss a potential shift. I honestly wasn't sure he'd even see it, let alone respond, but within about 30 minutes he had replied to arrange a meeting and talk about it. Not just the head in the Division sense, but for the entire institution, reporting to the COO. Felt a bit of a baller just penning him a question and getting a response. Now to meet him and see how it pans out. My boss is jumping for joy that I'm making moves. Outwardly for her staff to progress, inwardly (I'm sure) to get me out of her hair.