01-14 Work Log: Audit Prep, Dev/Play Boundaries, and LogQL Tutorial Review 2026-01-14T23:29:41Z # Date unclear — Life Log ## Title Audits, Play debates, and joyful calls—plus spicy memories and Heelys ## Time Context Time unclear (mentions around 11:45–12:15 suggest midday, but overall span is uncertain) ## Life Log Narrative You moved through a busy stretch of work and life, toggling between audit prep, product philosophy debates, and a heartfelt family catch-up. At work, you tried to bring clarity: confirming study readiness, aligning with Sandra, and shaping a tidy “minimum documents” approach so auditors get what they need without opening the floodgates. Around noon, you pushed your LogQL tutorial to review and advocated for keeping the dev/play environment squarely community-oriented—no confidential creep. Later, you dropped into a warm, animated conversation with family. You shared stories about Nico’s bold new hair color and a judgy stylist redeemed by the final look. Food memories flowed—medium-spicy frog hot pot that was definitely not medium, durian pizza that somehow worked, salted egg fish skin, chili crab, cereal prawns, and char kway teow (“cowboy chow,” as Noel calls it). You talked about turning 40 with Heelys and cotton-candy hair, feeling loved by the midnight surprise with balloons and a video montage. Noel chimed in with a rainy beach swim, a ropey hike down from Penang Hill beside the funicular, and an impromptu in-game song that charmed your whole family. Bali is on the horizon; Ubud, Café Lotus, and exploring—cautiously—came up, with a pragmatic nod to safety. ## Places Visited - Penang Hill (Malaysia) — hiking reference - Singapore — meals and birthday celebrations - Netherlands — houseboat and snow mention (not visited currently, discussed) - Bali / Ubud (Indonesia) — upcoming plans, not visited yet ## Activities - Work planning and audit prep - Writing and submitting a LogQL tutorial for review - Team discussion about dev/play environments - Family video call and catch-up - Reminiscing about travel and food experiences - Sharing birthday celebrations and gifts - Discussing upcoming travel plans to Bali ## Key Moments - You proposed a clear “minimum documents” set for audits to avoid oversharing. - You advocated to keep Play community-focused and free of confidential data. - You celebrated getting your PR to review status for the LogQL tutorial. - Family warmth: balloons, flowers, and a surprise birthday video montage made you feel deeply loved. - You embraced turning 40 with Heely shoes and candy-colored hair—leaning into joy and playfulness. - Noel’s rainy swim story and spontaneous role-play song became delightful highlights. - Laughing over “medium” spicy frog hot pot that wasn’t medium at all. ## Conversation Topics - Audit process logistics and document access strategy - Dev vs. Play environment scope and confidentiality boundaries - LogQL tutorial readiness and Pathfinder - Hair color, salon experiences, and stylist attitudes - Memorable foods: chili crab, cereal prawns, char kway teow, salted egg fish skin, durian pizza - Turning 40 and embracing fun (Heelys, hair) - Netherlands winter snow and safety - Penang Hill hike and the funicular - Upcoming Bali plans; possible café recommendations (Café Lotus) ## People - Noel — your partner; present in discussions and shared stories - Sandra — colleague to coordinate study timing and playbook - Richard Hassan — person tied to a study scheduling question - Cibita (possibly “Cibita”) — colleague referenced regarding uploads - Antonio — colleague you addressed with questions - Nico — family member with new hair color - Mom — on the call, sharing birthday warmth and travel suggestions - Sister-in-law — created the birthday video montage - Brother — participated in the role-playing game session ## Follow-Ups - Confirm with Sandra about doing the study tomorrow and using the playbook. - Finalize and circulate the “minimum audit documents” list (approved plan export, ICF, final release/PR docs, final report, AE report if applicable, AE reconciliation/email, MSA link, SOW/PO if applicable). - Ensure MarketLogic access approach is defined (no broad auditor access; provide only requested downloads). - Send the LogQL tutorial to Jay (and relevant reviewers) and track review feedback. - Note Café Lotus and verify if it’s in Ubud for the Bali trip. - Consider Bali transport options; prioritize safety and avoid driving if uncertain. --- ## Audio moments worth keeping 1. [00:11:45–00:12:05] — Pushing the PR to review Why: A small but satisfying milestone in your workday, capturing your tone of relief and momentum. 2. [00:12:15–00:13:30] — Keeping Play community-focused Why: Clear articulation of principles and scope boundaries—your conviction and reasoning could be grounding to revisit. 3. [00:—:—–00:—:—] — Birthday love and midnight surprise Why: You describe arriving just after midnight to balloons, flowers, and a heartfelt video montage; the warmth in your voice is worth hearing again. 4. [00:—:—–00:—:—] — Turning 40 with Heelys and candy hair Why: A joyful, self-affirming moment about aging with playfulness and confidence. 5. [00:—:—–00:—:—] — Noel’s rainy beach swim Why: The imagery and calm delight in swimming as warm rain falls makes for a soothing, evocative memory. 00:00:24 I know a person, Richard Hassan, so there's a story to it. Richard Hassan, and tell us what you think, can you do the study tomorrow? So yeah, that could be, so just check with Sandra and say like, okay, we've created a playbook, and given that this person is new. 00:00:57 You know, we just want to test the document, is it easy to read, is it easy to understand, does this work? 00:01:32 I don't know whether you realize it, but the documentation part that we all do in the observability, we have cases to do those. 00:02:03 I know, right? Sorry, me? Yes. Sorry, what's the document's name again? Oh, yes. 00:02:39 Whether it's, whether it's my creative? Yes. Now I went through that pain. There was just two of us. All those studies that we did previously going into market logic and at the time. 00:03:13 that was still the time when tags were invented. So we had to tag each study with the study type, what methodology, it's like anything. So 500. Okay, one other thing there was a note. So I sent a note to say that it's to SharePoint already, so they can already update the information and upload it. 00:03:58 So I think Cibita has a... What would be, what should be uploaded? Okay, so one, we don't provide access to the auditor. Okay, we can ask MarketLogic to give them access at least. 00:04:35 Or, okay, so I do that, yeah. But we don't want them to be going in and looking at all the information, right? So what we typically do is help the research to basically walk them through the study. You know, basically wait for their question and then, okay, oh, you need the ICF here. Here's the ICF. But again, it's that when you have that window open, 00:05:09 then they will ask like, oh, what is that thing? So it's always that. So what we typically in audit situations, is we just download the information that's needed, and then that's the one that we show the auditors. And if they ask for more, then that's the time that we just go back and then, so yeah. 00:05:46 So they were unclear, so I was thinking as we did earlier, can we just provide sort of, these are the minimum list of documents you should. And beyond that, of course, it depends on the auditor what they ask. So we think about the approved research plan, which they can export. 00:06:18 The ICF, I forgot about the ICF earlier. Final release document slash docs, whatever PR. Final report, the AE report if applicable, and the AE reconciliation is the form, right? 00:06:58 Yes, just the email, yeah. I don't know whether we can just tell the team to say if there are any questions or. 00:07:32 requests for MSA, come to us or you have the link to the MSA folder, right, so they can just download that. So maybe I can just add the specific SOW to the AE training log. Those would be the standard documents that they need to download. So at least it's also the same across all the studies. Otherwise, if this person uploads 10 documents, then they might start to ask, 00:08:05 this person has 10, why do you only have 7? Technically, yes, if applicable. But if there's a past PO, you can just put if applicable. 00:08:41 The alternative is, you can say, it goes through the past PO front, and I'm hoping we don't need to provide. You know how they flag that? For it to qualify in the past PO, you have... you know sign on the proposal blah okay anyway i'll just put SOW. 00:09:15 and then i think most of the people would have it or i i'll put if applicable because the sensor you. 00:09:48 didn't make it. 00:11:39 Is that because it's so long? Are you sitting on it? 00:15:18 It's 11.45. 00:27:02 In four minutes, yes, I got I'm I did just enough to get my PR to review status. Yeah, yeah Huh, is it deployed maybe. 00:30:18 it's 12 o'clock. Noel, it's okay. this is my team. thank you! 13! see ya! i kNoelw, right? i can't either. 00:31:18 What? Sorry, how old are you? What's going on? Okay, how's this? Jay, guess what? I have something for you. I have a LogQL tutorial that's at least ready to review. 00:31:51 It may be too long, but I'll send you the thing. Yeah, for Pathfinder. 00:32:24 Oh, I haven't even looked at the thingy for the week. Oh, are we doing that Noelw? Sorry, do you Noelt hear me? Why? 00:32:54 No, I think it's my... I think I may need to charge my thing. My mic isn't working. Super fancy setup, but I haven't used it in a while. So, are we doing that Noelw? What was my idea again? For, yeah. 00:33:26 It's games. It's video games or board games or however you interpret that. Things that stand out or have a meaningful memory associated with them. You'd think I would have actually thought about my answer for this. 00:39:21 Well, I was going to say wow, because, you kNoelw, we've talked about this. I had, I spent a lot of years being addicted to that. But since you said that, I'm going to talk about aNoelther one, Ingress. It was the precursor for Pokemon Go. And what I loved about it was you had to, you were split into two teams, everyone was split into two teams. And you had to like get on this, I don't kNoelw what it was like a Ventrilo server or some some other, it wasn't Slack, it wasn't Discord, a server where you could talk to other people from there. And it was like a location thing, you had to triangulate. And you had to talk to people who if you wanted to make a really big area, you had to talk to people who were in different countries and be like, okay, we're going to do this at this time. So row out out to that island on your boat. And I'm going to go and find this remote stop. And we have to do it at the same time, so that we can create the biggest. 00:40:21 of a triangle and beat the other team and it was just mind-blowing that a game could be like with played with people that I didn't really I'd never met and would probably never meet but it required so much coordination I really loved that it felt like something to see the screen turn green and you're like that was my triangle I built that next one Antonio. 00:45:18 It's 12.15. 00:55:06 Yeah, I have a few questions, and it's also mirrored in the chat, so luckily it's Noelt just me that has the same question. My understanding was that the dev instance would be for play, so the things that would go on dev, whether it's internal or external, are things that we intend to eventually make it onto play. So the idea is it's still going to be, like, dashboards that will be publicly accessible. So I'm kind of confused as to why we're talking about, like, demo environments with potentially confidential information that SE teams might use. 00:55:43 That seems like it's muddying the waters. Play is for everybody. It's for the community, and it will be aNoelnymous. So why are we putting confidential information? 00:57:45 Okay, well, in that case, my vote is, yes, if it's for dev, for us, for the community, that will go onto Play, but Noel, if it's going to be something that's, like, then we can't use in Play because it has confidential information, it seems like that leads to scope creep, and we're creating, like, some sort of internal learning platform Noelw, that's Noelt what Play is, so, anyway, that's my vote. 00:58:16 I would vote to keep it community-oriented, or, you kNoelw, SE Demo can create, the SE team can create their own thing. 01:03:60 Thank you. 01:04:38 Shh. 01:06:18 Thank you. 01:06:53 Beep, beep, beep. 01:40:12 What kind of work is this? Quick! 01:40:47 I want to say hi to Nico. She's here. Hi. Just a minute. I can't hear her. Yeah, yeah, just a second. The old headphone issue. Like that. Why are you hanging out here in the dark? Just a second. There you go. You have to rewind a little bit, Mom, because I was switching from headphones to... 01:41:21 It's so much nicer here in the... Making your mom see you in the dark like a vampire. Hi. To me, it looks like he's in a bright white room. I'm glad it works out. Is my screen compensating or what? Oh, okay. Thank you so much for calling. You've got more red Noelw. Pardon me? Thank you so much for calling to say happy birthday the other night. That was so sweet. 01:41:51 Oh, couldn't miss that. Aw. Oh, yeah, that's Nico's new hair color. Well, her four-hour hair appointment. Yeah. It's beautiful. Yeah, I like it. It started off... Hello. Oh. Hi. It started off with the hairdresser kind of going like, oh, oh. Yeah, he was so judgy. 01:42:22 Did you do this yourself? I was like, yes, I don't pay to have other people do it all the time. And do you bleach it yourself? No. He thought it was so uneven and so poorly done. I'm like, oh, I can't see it but the back of my head. This apparently justifies his existence and whatever he charged you to do it. 01:42:55 I know. Which was quite a bit. Yeah, that's why I don't do it. Last time, he was like, when was the last time you had a professional do your hair? six years you're like well my kidney hasn't grown back yet but yes i do i do like it i like the purple night and i had to make him put the purple in, because it's like this purple here in the top and then it's kind of like orangey pinkish. 01:43:32 it's a gradient yeah and he was like oh do you want more than one tone, i'm like yeah i like color he was so judgy i mean i like what he did eventually but i really had to push for it well this is good you knew what you wanted and the other thing is he might think about it decide that he's going to suggest that to some other people. 01:44:02 yeah he liked the end result, And I was like, oh, you did a good job. And he was like, I know, I did. Okay, my idea. Well, I think those colors are very cyan like. Yeah. It's just that, though, you step from that scene in person with the same colors. 01:44:34 Yeah, everything was really colorful there. And, like, the food was, you know, was colorful to our tongues, too. Like, just a lot of different spices and just weird mixes. It was great. It was so great. Didn't like everything. Like the frog. It's okay. Yeah. And it was way too spicy. We had, yeah, we had dry frog hot pot. 01:45:06 Yeah, a big bowl full of a few frogs, sort of chopped up. Typical Chinese cooking, right? You just take an animal, gut it, take your big cleaver and chop it into random chunks with bones, wherever. Chuck it into the wok. Throw it into the stew with super rich, you know, very spicy. We said medium. We said medium, it was brutal. That was not medium. I like that. 01:45:39 I love Noel. Told you. Noel specifically wanted to take a photo of that. Yeah. Silly. Next time we'll get all eight. He was like, oops, I ate the rest of it. 01:46:14 Oh, oh, I think I'd have to say the, we had a lot of good meals, though. Yeah, everything was good in every single place. I like the durian pizza. Well, except for that. It was, like, durian cheesy pizza, and it was, like, so weird, and I was very dubious, but it was so good. 01:46:47 Well, I thought it was. Charcoichow is char-quay-chow? Yeah. Cowboy chow? Noel calls it cowboy chow. Cowboy chow is, like, is the regional specialty, which is basically... Noodles and... It's like pad thai. Yeah, random fish and meat. Cockles. Stuff, ground up. Blood cockles, I think. Yeah. 01:47:22 Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Char Kway Chow is good. But I also really like the salted egg fish skin. So it's like fish skin that's like deep fried, somehow and then coated in salted egg. So good. Really, just very crispy. You like that too, right? 01:47:54 Yeah. Yeah. So good. Yeah. That was yummy. Was charcoal chow we your favorite? No it wasn't but I can't really remember what it was. We have photos of you to help you jog your memory. I remember last night's dinner, that was good. Well that's just because it was just last night. 01:48:24 Yeah that's about right. Oh mantos are good. Oh yeah. They are little square. Like doughnut-y. The dough is like doughnuts. They are fried and golden brown on the outside. They're little sort of chicken nugget sized things that you dip in your spicy soup to like soak up the spicy soup broth and then eat that. 01:48:56 What's a spicy soup called? Yum, yum, Tom Yum. Tom Yung. There you go. I should give you... I've got a question about my Asian feast. Oh, yummy. We've had too much feasting. Yeah, you like the Thai stuff too. You said you liked that meal the best. 01:49:29 You like the scallops too. Yeah. You always like scallops though. Thai stuff is sort of favorite so far. We'll see. We'll see what Balinese food is like. Well, I won't... Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt your time. I was just getting something. It was nice to talk to you though. Yeah. And I think we've hidden each other most of our news. Yep. Oh, except you haven't seen one of Nico's presents. Oh, the one you gave me. Yeah. 01:49:59 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Look! But, they have wheels in them. Yeah. Yeah! They're Heely roller skates, you know, the kind that, like, 11-year-old girls love? In fact, there are a lot of things that 11-year-olds... 01:50:33 Like, you know when we were at Anne of Green Gables cottage, right? And there was that little girl there with the Anne of Green Gables hat and braids? That's a fairly common experience. They have very adult taste! No, these aren't as bad as roller skates because it's, um, it's only one wheel here, so like if you fall forward, you stop, like you just, because you don't, you don't keep wheeling unless you're here, and then if you fall backwards, you also just stop, you're just standing. 01:51:12 Well, just be careful. Well, it's made for kids, the size is big kid seven. Noel got them for me. The thought is nice to acknowledge the girl. Yeah, yeah, I was, I was just saying, like, you know, I was worried about turning 40, and I thought, oh, maybe I'm getting old, and then, you know, as I was sitting there with my heelies, my wheeled shoes, and my candy, cotton candy hair, I was like, if this isn't what 40 looks like, then I think it's gonna be fun, I think I'll be okay. 01:51:56 Well, I had a favorite. Her name was Dorothy. And she said, life starts at 40. And she meant it. Because it just comes with a certain amount of experience and confidence and maturity. And also, there's still a lot of vitality. So, she did enjoy it. Yeah. I'm liking it so far. It was so nice. We got here just after midnight on the 13th. And my family had all stayed up to surprise me. And they had these balloons and flowers. And even the kids were still up. And then, kids. They were like 16 and 21. Because they're not really kids. 01:52:52 And then we did gifts and stuff and then the next day I went off to the salon and then we did the restaurant. They took us out to a restaurant with like Singaporean food and we had chili crab. Noel hadn't had that yet. And cereal prawns, which is like prawns in cereal and cornflakes kind of thing. But it's way better than it sounds. We were so full. We were so full this morning. Noel was like, I'm not eating again ever. It lasted about an hour. We're down to about two meals a day, generally. Because they're so big. They're so big. 01:53:42 And then afterwards, um, my sister-in-law made this video for me, like, of all old photos of me with everybody, with each person, and then, and then, um, they had, like, a little video message for me, and it was so nice. It was so, it was unexpected. It was like, I thought it was the end of my birthday. It was just so thoughtful. Wonderful. Yeah, I felt very loved. Noelle had one there, too. Can you tell her about your swimming in the rain? 01:54:22 Yep. Well, swimming at the beach. I didn't mention that it rained while I was swimming, which was just fine, because it was, like, super warm. The rain was super warm, everything was warm, so I just, luckily I had my umbrella and my backpack on the beach, so I just put that over all of my beach stuff and just went and swam in the rain. oh that sounds wonderful yeah it was heaven and the water combining yeah sky and sea away from all of the air conditioning and stuff so you say as you lied here with air conditioning so i understand. 01:55:02 that a week or so ago the weather in holland was really awesome yeah actually all since christmas has been like the worst snow in 20 years is that right yeah it's been kind of cool to see i kind of wish i could be there to check it out, he was so adamant that we not spend another winter in the netherlands and then even when we were getting closer to the date and we hadn't booked our flights to singapore yet he was like. 01:55:32 oh you're just tricking me aren't you we're actually spending this winter in the netherlands again i was like no no i promise we're leaving we're leaving i promise we're leaving and we leave and he's like oh i kind of wish we were there to see the snow yeah it's pretty special in the houseboat when the canal freezes over oh now it's special i don't know i haven't seen any skating but, Probably. I mean, like, there's just lots of snow everywhere. 01:56:04 People are certainly skating on the streets. Yeah. Unintentionally. It's actually dangerous. Like, I've seen a lot of videos of people just trying to walk. Yeah. And they're, like, it's so slippery that they're falling onto the street and slipping. And, like, cars are slipping. It's the Netherlands, so they have their goofy bikes and their sneakers on. You know, like, just like Victoria when it snows, right? Like, no one has snow boots. Why would they? And they don't have any other form of locomotion except for their bikes. 01:56:41 Oh, that sounds so scary. It is. I know. It'd be hilarious. No. When things are not safe, that's not fun. Fun to watch. We can watch videos. You're not in your Heelys. No. Oh, man. It rained here, and I was like, I'm not wearing them. But bikes are nice. It's just asking for it. I know. It wasn't, yeah, it wasn't just bikes. 01:57:12 It was just people and cars, and everything was just all over the place. I'm glad not to be there. Well, it's good to have summer winter experience. You'll be sensible. If it's still like that when you get there, you'll know what to do. Did you tell her about the second hike? Yeah. That wasn't my fault. No, it wasn't. But somehow... The hike down from Penang Hill, that one with the ropes and stuff like that, 01:57:43 beside the funicular. I just like saying funicular. Yeah, but that's from the Sound of Music. Oh, no. It's, uh, it's, uh, I love to go wandering along the mountain track. And as I go, I love to sing my backpack on my back. 01:58:18 Valdoree, Valdorah, Valdoree, Valdorah, Valdoree, Valdorah. My knapsack on my back. And then a bunch of dirty lyrics that went on after that. Oh, really? Yeah. We just made stuff up. Yeah, I was going to say, did you just make it up? Yeah, I loved that so much. That was so, that was so thoughtful. 01:58:50 We played it for the whole family. We just left it going, the whole playlist. It was really nice. I thought it would be something that everyone could enjoy. Yeah. Actually, we were playing a game, and it was like a role-playing game. And Noelle was playing a character that was supposedly singing. He said he wanted to sing and inspire the party and encourage everybody. And normally what you would do is you would make a role to see how well you did. 01:59:25 But then Noelle spontaneously burst into song and actually changed the lyrics to match what was happening. And everybody, my whole family loved it. And my brother was like, you don't even need to roll. That just works. Yeah. Well, I'm looking forward to hearing from you from Bali. Yeah. I was telling Noelle there are a couple of other places that you will probably hear about once you're there. 02:00:01 One is called Cafe Lotus. And it has lotuses and beautiful things. Oh, cool. All kinds of things. But I have to double check to see if it's in Ubud or not, right? Yeah. Are you planning to travel around from Ubud, like rent a car or just stay put? Yeah. I'm sure we'll explore as much of the island as we can while we're there. But we're also, like, working from there as well. Oh, right. 02:00:32 Yeah. But possibly. Probably wouldn't rent anything. It's kind of scary to drive. So. I know you will, but you will drive on ice in the Netherlands and think it's fun. No, it's really dangerous, It's like it's mountainous and things aren't appropriately signed and sometimes cars go down the wrong way. No, Well, we'll see, We will explore. 02:01:21 They claim that the tourists hit them. Even if you're in the right, then they make a great big cross and all the locals come out and support the person who's saying that he or she was hurt and it just goes on from there Yeah, they do that in the Philippines too. It's to get the money. Or worse, there was a group that was doing that, they would pretend to be hit, and they would wait for the person inside, they would wait for someone who was alone in the car, and that person would be upset, because, you know, they would think that they'd hit someone, and they'd come out of the car, then somebody else would steal the car. 02:02:03 Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, I see. Well, I'm sure that between the two of you, you'll work out what they said. Between the two of us? Sure. He will be like, oh, I'm sure they're just borrowing the car. I'll just wait here until they bring it back. Oh, man. 02:02:41 You're wonderful, Tom.