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🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W2

2025-01-12 20:37

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.

🏃 Ran 77.4km / 4,995m profile - Massive week of running. Weekend was big with 1,600m of climbing on Saturday and then 2,100m on Sunday. Certainly feeling it. Hoping there's not too many crouching jobs tomorrow. I got out to some very spectacular places - Mt Shrimpton and Mt Larkins in particular.

🏢 Work - First week back. Still loving it.

First couple days was reconfiguring the workshop shelving. Looks really good now with lots more space to store tools, parts, cabling and all the rest. Did a myriad of other jobs throughout the rest of the week: finished a pre-wire, fixed a gate sensor, fitted ceiling speakers, terminated network hub data cabling (to name a few).

I was given the spare work van on Tuesday. Now I can drive straight to site and keep all my tools together in one place. I've been lugging them around multiple vehicles which has been a bit of a pain.

I scored a 55" TV from a work mate which was otherwise going to e-waste. Apparently clients regularly offload their old perfectly fine audio/visual devices to us when they get upgrades. Work mate decided he had no use for it. I need to get a bracket to hook it to the wall but otherwise the thing is fine. I scored a blue-ray player and the remote for that works on the telly. First TV I've owned since 2018. Good to have something bigger than my monitor to watch things on.

🌱 Tidied up the greenhouse, pruned the tomatoes, tyed up the encroaching pumpkin, dedicated the back to the self germinated pumpkins. Harvesting lots of greens to fill my plate. I need to get down to the allotment to see whats going on down there. I have to harvest my garlic. Hope it's ok.

🖌️ I've been drawing something from my day every day as part of my own Januartuary Challenge. Thoroughly enjoying it. Kinda looks like a 12 year old drew the things but you could say that about most things on my website.

💻 Tools

▶️ Daily notes

Notes for 2025-01-08

[07:08] Scored a massive 55 inch TV yesterday that was otherwise making it for e-waste. Haven't owned a telly for 7 years. I just need to buy a wall mount and it's sorted.

I'm also officially a man with a van. Boss happy for me to take the spare and start going solo on some easier jobs. Good to not have to lug my tools across everyone else's vehicles.

[19:11] @GROCERIES:

  • Fruit and veg
  • fish
  • mussels
  • cheese
  • coconut milk
  • bread
  • muesli bars
  • gels
  • nuts

Notes for 2025-01-09

[18:25] And today scored a blue ray player. Not sure if I will ever need it, unless I find something down at the op shop, but the remote works for the TV so at least that's sorted.

[19:38] One of the tradies on site today had a hell of a mouth on him. Don't think I've ever heard so many Fs and Cs in a day. All in good jest, but jeez, save em up buddy.

[19:54] Off a whim I started listening to Phil Anselmo's Down - Stone the crow, and I'm thoroughly enjoying. I mainly listened to Pantera for the early days and Dimebag shredding, and Phil always seemed like a bit of a douche, and lost his mad high clean vocals over the years, so I was never really jumping at giving these guys a go. BUT I like this. I almost thought the opener was Kyuss, and it eased me in for the ride. Not fantastic but I found myself banging my head a little.

Notes for 2025-01-11

[20:29] That spicy chicken from Firebird was an absolute ring stinger.

Notes for 2025-01-12

The trailer to 28 Years Later looks so good.

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