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🗓️ Weeknote 2026-W05

2026-02-02 19:18

I have a blocked left ear (again), so don't have much energy in me to run, code, exercise. Thought I'd give a weeknote a crack. Haven't done one for a while.

T is still OS and family visitors are less frequent so I'm flying solo again. It was nice to see T on the video chat yesterday.

🌱 In the garden, I'm harvesting my first tomatoes of the season. I have 8 plants which is probably going to be a (good) problem. I think most of them were self-germinated from previous seasons and are for the majority cherry tomatoes. Hoping I have a beefsteak in there or a regular sized one somewhere.

I cannot believe how many zuchinnis a single plant produces. One is more than enough. I've just kept up with the yields, now succumbing to zuchinni "pasta". Cucumbers are similar - single plant is more than enough. Like the tomatoes, I prune the crap out of it, so there's a single leader running up twine tied to the roof of the greenhouse. It keeps things tidy, more air flow, and does not seem to hurt the yields (probably makes it better).

I've got a carpet of silverbeet and kale out in the fruit tree orchard, let alone the ones I planted inside the greenhouse, and a few successions of salad greens producing nicely, so no greens shortage that's for sure.

🩸 Health - My damn ear is blocked again. Started this morning. Can't get into the ear place for another 10 days so trying the olive oil trick. Not working yet. Feeling exhausted from it already.

Looking at my notes, my previous ear blockages were:

I've had more before that, but hadn't recorded it. Apparently I have narrow ear canals. Haven't really had any preventative advice other than the olive oil, but do I just do olive oil regularly? Seems a bit much. By the time it happens though I feel like the olive oil is too late. I'll discuss at docs when I go again.

My plantar fasciitis on my right foot disappeared so I'm running and doing my strength exercises again. Unfortunately it feels like my knee went backwards, but I know what to do. Load management.

📝 I've started writing random blog posts because I want to pick up the habit of writing again. I find my ideas for blog posts end up being too hard for me to complete, so I'm just going basic. I'd love to do a big how-to guide again at some point, but I don't really have the time or energy for it.

📚 Finished reading New Escapologist Vol 18. Nice little book on escaping the norms. Many contributers. Short articles I could read over a cup of coffee.

💻 🤓 I've been going all out with my activities database and new website that shows all the data. I've had to reign it in a bit though otherwise I will never get it up and running. When it goes live it won't look like a huge improvement on the Activity Log, but I have made the backend to be a nice building block for incremental improvements. I've learnt a lot about SQL and duckdb, and more on python scripting too. I think I'm learning some better practices. Little things like calling functions from other scripts. Definitely a fun project.

I'm building the site with Zola again, and picked a theme similar to my vision to give me a headstart, but I'm slightly regretting that because it has too many bells and whistles.

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My ear just had a tiny reprieve yay.