It was a good month, although an early spell of good weather rather lulled me into thinking that spring had sprung, only for April to go out like a lion.
Highlights of the month:
- The academic paper was published to no substantive objection. Yet
- Negative biopsy. Yay!
- Excellent visit to old friends in Brussels, plus recorded an episode of ETP there
- Dismantled the old bike completely (with professional help) and started to fix things up
- Fine visit from an old friend and colleague, and her daughter and mother
- Made actual use of ChatGPT to write a little program
- A succession of successful snail hunts on the terrace
- One piece of paid work, and that was plenty
Activities
Steps up, sleep down. Must be the seasons.
April:
- Walking with sticks: 0
- Reading: 5
- Steps (avge): 9143
- Podcasts: 33 (31 of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 8:12/7:26
- 7 Minutes: 5 days
- Cycled: 4 days
- Weight (avge): 86.8
- Naps: 5
March:
- Walking with sticks: 0
- Reading: 17
- Steps (avge): 8947
- Podcasts: 33 (28 of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 8:33/7:42
- 7 Minutes: 6 days
- Cycled: 10 days
- Weight (avge): 87.2
- Naps: 4
Stuff Done
Still getting loads of spam to just one or two posts, despite having deleted all previous spam comments, so I guess the spammers are not actually monitoring anything, just blasting their crap out willy nilly. I cannot think of anything more soul-crushing.
On the bike restoration, I oscillate madly between the fantasy of wanting to lovingly fix absolutely every original part and the reality of knowing that I definitely don't have the patience and likely don't have the skills or resources. I'm currently stalking eBay for a replacement saddle, a quill stem and a left crank, having discovered to my astonishment that the cranks are ill-matched, with a right of 165mm and a left of 170mm. Never noticed that before now.
Splurged out on Keyboard Maestro, in order to use a single macro that converts Bike outline files into Markdown files, and am finding it very much harder to understand or, dare I say it, grok, than I anticipated. I've built a couple of little things to speed my chores, fractionally, but I'm torn between accepting it was an expensive purchase and spending yet more for a tutorial course.
Hours logged per month
Percent of logged hours
Previous years are on an archive page.
Goals
Nine posts here, which will do nicely. $project got absolutely no attention, and that needs to be fixed. The little automations I built were satisfying.
Niggles
Not too many this month. I would still like to be a bit more disciplined about blocking time for things, but I am not beating myself up about it.
Final remarks
Not too bothered about the lack of Twitter as I do seem to be able to follow lists. So maybe I need to put more people into one list or the other.
Here’s the table
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| Month | Total | Daily | Admin % | ETP % | Writing % | Other % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 | 102.9 | 3.4 | 49 | 25 | 19 | 7 |
| 03 | 117.9 | 3.8 | 40 | 28 | 15 | 17 |
| 02 | 116.3 | 4.8 | 48 | 19 | 15 | 18 |
| 2023-01 | 101.0 | 4.8 | 53 | 31 | 13 | 3 |
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