A small selection of flowers wild and cultivated
New Photos
There is not a lot of external evidence for what has been a very busy month one way and another, but I know.
Highlights of the month:
- Garden on the terrace growing fit to bust
- Visit to a fabulous paeony nursery; mine still blind after all these years
- Tried an audio clip again; still no impact
- Good visits with several friends passing through
- Exciting, inspiring, recreational visit to Hearsay audio arts festival in Ireland
- One good and long recording that will Take Work™
- Some good bicycle rides
- Succeeded in making a server at Hetzner for my big project
- Taxes half done
- BBQs, watermelon, cherries.
Activities
May: (low because Ireland)
- Walking with sticks: 0
- Reading: 18
- Steps (avge): 8458
- Podcasts: 7 (all of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 7:48/7:40
- Cycled: 4
- Weight (avge): 90.7
- Naps: 16
April:
- Walking with sticks: 1
- Reading: 12
- Steps (avge): 8356
- Podcasts: 14 (all of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 7:52/7:43
- Cycled: 3
- Weight (avge): 90.8
- Naps: 14
Stuff Done
The server business was very taxing and I had to make several restarts. My notes are patchy, and there was plenty to note, so I hope to extract what I can from them in due course. I begin to question the wisdom of my even starting this idiocy.
Hours logged per month
Percent of logged hours
Previous years are still on an archive page.
Goals
Four posts, all of them probably far too geeky, but the strange thing is that one analytics site consistently ranks those how-tos, which I write mostly as notes to myself, as among the most visited pages. And speaking of analytics, although I say I don’t care that much about visitor numbers, I do, especially for the podcast. And those numbers seem to be all over the place. Last week saw a phenomal jump, around 7-fold for both unique visitors and regulars, which is crazy, unfathomable and hard to act on when so many visitors lie about their intent.
Niggles
There has been a post in draft for most of this month, about the difficulties of developing software as a rank amateur. The trouble is that the things I want to do for “fun” some people study and are paid to do, and that makes online resources for those of us who don’t have the necessary background learning not very helpful.
Final remarks
No complaints, really. Just moans, niggles and whinges, because who wants to be smothered by good news?
Here’s the table
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| Month | Total | Daily | Admin % | ETP % | Writing % | Other % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 | 96.4 | 4.0 | 46 | 36 | 17 | 1 |
| 04 | 67.75 | 3.05 | 58 | 32 | 10 | 0 |
| 03 | 103.3 | 4.75 | 58 | 29 | 13 | 0 |
| 02 | 112.3 | 4.9 | 57 | 28 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 54.25 | 4.2 | 56 | 9 | 35 | 0 |
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