🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W51
2024-12-23 10:28
Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.
I'm in Sydney for Christmas. Catching up with fam bam, embracing the concrete jungle and muggy Summer heat. Stayed in Glebe with Dad and Ruth the first two nights. Heading to Mum's at Mona Vale on the northern beaches today after meeting up with sis and fam in Barrangaroo. Fun fun. Visited fish and veg markets.
🏃 Ran 29.8km / 1,210m profile
Couple of runs from the Arrowotown workshop, exploring new routes off Bush Creek Trail and Sawpit Gully in Arrowtown. There are so many variations out that way. I love my new lines. Gives me a lot of options depending how I feel on the day.
Arrived in Sydney on Saturday, and went for an early run on Sunday morn, linking up Rozelle Bay, The Bay Run and Anzac Bridge. I love running with a rough route in mind at a new location. Great way to see a place. I'm not totally new to this area, but I did get to places I haven't before.
🏢 Work - Wrapped up the year, and 1 month with the new mob. I'll stop calling it new now. It was a big push in the last week. Lots of different jobs tying up loose ends. I replaced ceiling speakers, realigned satellite dishes, re-configured sound systems, installed new outdoor speakers, mounted TVs to walls, installed an electric gate motor. Lots of wiring, cable testing, and testing patience. I go back on the 6th Jan.
💻 I did some more coding for December Adventure, including some at the airport. I was quite engaged when doing that. There's something about airports... time just stops and there is no worries. There is nowhere I can be, nothing I can do, until the plane comes. Coding was a nice way to use the time. I've been working on an "activity-post", a way I can quickly grab my Strava activities or GPX files into a blog post. This will bring a bit more of "me" to the website as running is a big part of my life.
💻 Tools
- manpageblog - A nifty little static site generator that makes web pages that look like a Unix man page. I got one up and running in 5 minutes. Have a project idea for using this.
Reading my 2000AD comics!
🎧 Listening to...
All new artists to me, the genre as well. They just relax the shit out of me. It's like electronica, chill, beats or something. Kind of dark, but not Chelsea Wolfe dark. Sounds beautiful on a good sound system.
▶️ Daily notes
[21:25] We only have 1 meeting a week. I forgot how good actually doing work feels.
Notes for 2024-12-18
[07:19] Stupid names for software and services:
- Kate
- Gimp
- X
[19:26] Feedback today was took the right initiative to check LAN connections while upgrading coax and retuning to correct frequencies on client's TVs. However coax was the scope. Anyway not much time was wasted, I noted what was found - majority of LAN connections were faulty, half TVs were on wifi rather than wired. Useful if we ever return.
[20:50] Just realised there was a lot of attic and loft work today on a fucking hot day. 3/3 homes.
[23:45] It's hot. Need a fan. @BUY:
- fan
Notes for 2024-12-20
[06:31] It's windy af and we're going to a job early to climb a roof and fix a satellite dish. Hmm.
[07:40] Survived. Not windy at all here.
[19:04] I knew I'd lose my Garmin watch. Taking it off for work but needing to take it to work for afternoon runs from the workshop. Too many variable spots to leave it. Should've planned a routine better. Stupid stupid me.
[19:42] It was a small shitty thing but I think a good metaphor for the tension between productivity and procrastination. I was having a mildly productive afternoon - simple things, but necessary - showed a friend around my home to do the watering while I'm away, unpacked my work gear, chopped spent greens in the greenhouse, added my food scraps, took down to allotment for composting, collected ready compost in back of car, quick duck to the shops for a 6 pack for my friend, back home, and then... Started to lose momentum... Where to put compost? Greenhouse, orchid, corn crop, under hedge? Ahh can't make decision, ok I'll leave it in greenhouse in the tub until I decide. Put down, start walking back in, change mind, nah want to get this done, under hedge it is. I had actually said last week that's where all my compost is going. It needs it. Point? Why did I stop, ready to go in and leave unfinished business? A decision was needed - where to put the compost. Such a simple choice to make. Yet I gave up for a moment. That is where procrastination comes from - lack of clarity on what needs to be done. That is also my goal for 2025 - make a fucking decision and get on with it.
[20:01] I'm not an eloquent writer and I don't care to be. I want more to blurt out what's in my head. I want to get past the thing that's keeping me internalising. Maybe if I just write I will start to converse like that too.
[20:05] Just picked a pretty impressive booger.
Hmm maybe internalising is good.
Notes for 2024-12-21
[08:54] Done a pretty good job at emptying the fridge before heading off.
Notes for 2024-12-22
[05:18] Back to bed hopping in Sydney where all beds are bad for my back, so back to early morning wake ups with scoliosis killing me.
[08:33] How very Australian, listening to Macca on ABC radio run through the weather... Narrabri, Coonabarrabran, Bourke, Brewarrina.... All the places I used to work.... 38s, 39s, 40s.. gross.
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