Week commencing Monday, 3 October 2023
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 6/7; Exercise 3/7 and Move 4/7. (62%, similar). Morning walks: 0/3 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 2/5. Total steps: 65,485
Life
- They fixed my access to the mandatory training platform. Monday afternoon spent understanding fire extinguishers and bribery. And, by Friday, I completed the lot (including the extra one that was added on Thursday).
- Celeb spotting: AJ Odudu and Will Best, presenters of the new version of Big Brother, hosted an event I attended. I was at the back and couldn’t hear but there was a free bottle of beer.
- Regardless of how you feel about HS2, it seems bonkers to me that it’s the major policy announcement at a party conference. I asked an AI bot what it thought and it summed up the responses reasonably well.
- A workshop at work on Thursday, I learnt a lot about some existing technologies; I don’t think that was the point of the day. I had one drink after work before coming home.
- Early Saturday evening, PY thinks I said yes to the second bottle of wine when everybody else didn’t want one. The service was attentive but not with a smile.
- Wilkommen to Cabaret: Rob ordered a bottle of champagne; perhaps the default drink for this production. It feels decadent which, I guess, is the vibe. Jake Shears was excellent, but not the most uplifting show.
- Sunday trip to Ryde. Lunch looking out on the water across to Portsmouth. It’s very tranquil and a lovely way to spend Sunday afternoon.
- Then, walked to the nature reserve where we sat in the hide watching the wildlife. There was nobody around and we spent half an hour watching the birds on the water.
- Related: I made tea in my reusable, insulated drinks cup. It was still very hot three hours later.
Media
- I’d never heard of TV quiz show ‘Shafted’ until a conversation on Tuesday night and this clip. Reading the comments, there are 16 unaired episodes.
- I hear a lot about the war on motorists. And so it was in 1905, a time when cars were perhaps as disliked as they have ever been.
Archive
To save the links getting lost in the future I checked the Internet Archive to see what they had saved for the posts linked here. If the source above no longer works, these should.
- BBC: Speculation about HS2 overwhelms Conservative party conference
- AI-sourced views on HS2 Northern leg cancellation
- YouTube: Shafted with Robert Kilroy Silk
- The war on motorists: the secret history of a myth as old as cars themselves
- Blip: My thoughts on the KitKat Club
- Jake Shears as Cabaret Emcee.
- Blip: Sunset over Ryde