Weeknote 2024-W39
2024-09-30 10:30
Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.
🏃 Ran 69.4km / 5,024m profile
A lot of vert this week. Weather has been great. Warmer, less rain. Snow capped peaks are still around, but some of favourite routes are achievable, and the snow caps are what make this place beautiful. I love the cusp seasons. Our clocks moved an hour forward too so we get more sunshine in the PM. I made the most of that on Sunday with a 5:30 PM 2.5 hour jaunt in the cooler evening taking me to dusk. It was really nice.
🚴 Rode 25.4km / 372m
🩸 Health
Focusing on sleep. I've cut back to 1 coffee a day (again). I was having 3-5 a day! No wonder I can't sleep. I'm also back on my Shakti mat in the evenings. I'm trying to limit screentime in the mornings and evenings. I picked up a heap of tips from the Ali Abdaal podcast with TJ Power, How Dopamine Shapes Your Habits and Productivity.
🌱 Planted some things. More tidying of the greenhouse. I use a lot of my own compost which produces A LOT of self-sown crops. I'm starting to see some cucumbers, tomatoes (and chillies?) pop up so I'll start moving these into place. I love how it does it all for me. Fun time of year to watch the soil closely.
💻 The Odin Project - Continuing to learn a tonne of stuff. I am halfway through the CSS module learning about selector types and cascading hierarchies. I'm trying to clean up the code under my website as I go along.
🧑🍳 Baked some scones. Cheese scones. I'm a savoury guy. The recipe is on my crappy recipe page I made for The Odin Project, amongst 2 other favourites.
💻 New tools
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Runalyze - Awesome personal sports data dashboard. So good. When I toy with Python on my running data this is the kind of dashboard I envision. I really dig the ability to change timeframes and view elevation data. It calculates an "elevation score" and gives a ratio of hilly:flat for each run. Strava seems to be enshittifying itself so I've been on the lookout for something like this.
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Visual Studio Code - I've really been enjoying using this lately for my website. It was a requirement for The Odin Project, but I've adopted it for my website now. I love the terminal window inside so I can now build and publish, and then commit and push to GitHub for backup. I am using it on 3 operating systems - Windows, Ubuntu and Mint. I really like how it picks up on the file types, renders it accordingly and offers TAB completion - really good for writing HTML and CSS.
📚 Started reading The Highly Sensitive Person - Thanks to Cole for bringing this to my attention. Wow wow wow. Here's me thinking I'm all fucked up. That thinking, and my sensitivities, has got my into a bad state, but this book has some good paths forward. I feel like this is a very pivotal time in my life.
🎧 Listening to...
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RL Burnside - Acoustic Stories (1997) - Love a bit of slow acoustic blues.
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Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994) - Easy grunge listening.
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Origin - Omnipresent (2014) - These guys have a knack for mixing blistering speeds and melodies. My favourite heavier band at the moment.
📺 Watched Bronson (2008) - Tom Hardy scares me.
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