I’m gonna try and keep this one short - the main reason is that there is a lot of pain points within this post that I could delve into some very deep detail and this could easily end up being long enough to be a book. So to cut it short but to set the scene this post has to look back 13 years ago - to when I was only 12 and even back then I was a highly optimistic person about what I could achieve and have believed that holding back opportunity to those with potential

If anyone reads my blog that knows me quite well and has spent some considerable amount of time interacting with me then you will probably know that I have preferred methods of contact - and with good reason too. Now I have a few rules that I stick to meticulously because of previous annoyances I have had over the years, these include Not answering “Unknown” or “Blocked” callers Google Searching numbers that I do not have stored in contacts and then deciding if I am to answer the call Typically not answering between 9-5 as that is my employers time and it is distracting Not answering if I’m not expecting a call Expecting a Clear and Concise reason for the call with a Name and contact number or better still and email address Distracting me from actually getting stuff done This is due to the well documented and scientifically proven impact different types of distractions, particularly from those that your do not know, can have on you.

This week has seen me attend the SharePoint User Group in Leeds on Tuesday in which there were presentations by Hugh Wood from Rencore and Garry Trinder from ID and then the LeanAgile Meetup in Manchester. But firstly before I go into detail about the events lets take a step back and set the scenes leading up to them both. For me any community event whether it be SharePoint User Groups or the LeanAgile meetup or the bigger events like SharePoint Saturday’s & SQL Saturday’s the main aspect for attending these events for me is that you gain an insight to how others in other organisations are working due to the inherent knowledge sharing that occurs at these types of events and I do my best to try and drag others along where possible.

So this Saturday saw SPSLondon come upon us and like any other event like this it brings with it some very interesting and difficult decisions on which sessions to attend. As an attendee I would have found it very difficult to decide on which sessions that I would have attended - but to then add to that as a presenter and you​ can imagine some of the additional headaches that can and in my case did happen.

Monday was a pretty eventful day for me - and certainly the most eventful Monday I’ve had in a number of years. It all started with up very early, like 3am early, getting ready for the day ahead and then realising I had managed to loose my house keys. So after a frantic half hour of searching for them - I gave up and left the house to go catch the 06:22 from Macclesfield to Manchester so that I could get into work super early and get cracking on with some of the help for the PowerShell functions of SPCSPS.

Well it had been an interesting few weeks and in my current house we have just had a new housemate move in who fits in really well with the rest of us. We discussed in the initial few weeks what we all did and naturally it brought up that I work within IT and enjoy (when I can) to have a few games on the 360 - Mainly Call Of Duty and a few others (Guitar Hero is another favourite)

Firstly, hi everyone & I hope you are all looking forward to this month and the fun that it will bring as I know I am. It’s gonna be an amazing if not interesting month I know that for sure. I’m Ryan (@kilasuit here & Xbox @kilasuit90 on YouTube @ryanyates1990 on Twitter/X ryanyates90 on LinkedIn @blog.kilasuit.org on BlueSky & more elsewhere) and I build and help in the maintainence of a number of different projects, some very new, some very old, some basically not used and some that are well used, like PowerShell/PowerShell where I am a collaborator and member of 3 of their working groups.