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The Best Of | Nov 2019 | Geek Queen
Jenny Marsden • Dec 02, 2019
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Things I've found and loved | Nov 2019
Watching: TED Talk - 4 words to ask your doctor.
An interesting talk about the relationship between you and your doctor and why some doctors will sometimes prescribe treatments and/or surgery and why.
Let me know what you think.
Also Watching: Mr Robot
I'm only three episodes in but I'm LOVING this series staring Remi Malik. Of course I keep expecting him to bust out Bohemian Rhapsody, but it's techy and ingenious and is right up my ally.
Learning: NOTHING!
Oh the horror!
Nothing on the course front this month. I'm so busy with the horrible "before Christmas" deadlines that I just don't have the time or the mental function to be learning anything new this month. I have a full Google course booked for the first week I'm back from Samoa so I'm confident enough to abandon my monthly learning schedule until then.
Reading: The Fallen
I spasmed my back a few weeks ago and since its been about 18 months since I last did it, I was determined to do all the right things and recover as fast as I could. Consequently I spent about 3 days lying in bed reading (and sleeping when the valium kicked in) so I did read a few books this month.
I've loved the Amos Decker novels by David Baldacci and The Fallen was no exception. They are crime novels where the lead character is an FBI consultant who is an ex footballer. He had a horrific injury in his playing days that left him with some special talents.
I do feel that these books are best read in the series order. They don't have to be but I feel like the groundwork for Amos personality is laid very firmly in the first book and if you slot in with book 3 that might not be completely clear.
Get it via Booktopia.
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About Jenny
I started my IT career in Database Administration and .Net coding. While I LOVED that work, I realised very quickly that I also wanted a life. To be a top end coder or DB Admin, you have to comit your downtime to constantly learning and evolving and while that is also something I love, I wanted it to be my work and not my life. So I morphed my love of design with my knowledge of all things SEO and moved into building small business websites.
Why small business websites? I'm a small business myself and I know how hard it can be so I wanted to give my clients a great service, with an approachable point of contact where no question was a "stupid question".
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