Weeknotes #46: 30 plants and a wonderful Christmastime

Week commencing Monday, 4 December 2023

Quantified Self

This week: Stand 6/7; Exercise 7/7 and Move 7/7. (95%, happy with that). Morning walks: 3/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/5. Plant diversity: 30. Total steps: 73,718

My app tells me how many plants I have eaten in a week. The theory is that more diversity is better for you. I need to aim for 30. I’ve added it to the quantified self check list.
Finished work early on Monday. Decided the tree decorations needed tweaking. Flying Santa doesn’t fly on this tree. Sad-face emoji needed.
Tuesday to King’s Cross to meet Florent for a quick drink. He was at a drinks reception and it took me a while to find him.
Interesting thoughts about using AI to write: Why should someone bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?
Thursday, the decorations outside the office was nice. There was a meeting where the basic discussion has been happening for years. I believe we will solve it eventually.
Train disruption on Thursday evening: I wonder if it’s possible to solve these issues on the railway network or will it be like this forever?
Merry and Bright was a wonderful community lantern parade which, thankfully, happened between the light rain showers.
Heavy rain showers on Sunday meant I was soaked walking down Ryde Pier. Dried out by the time the train got us home.
The West End singers who perform at The Crazy Coqs each month are great. The annual Christmas-themed evening was wonderful. The homemade kebab I made when we got home, delicious.

Monday, E4 started Modern Family from the pilot episode. Amazing how many of the characters were well-formed from the beginning.
Why Benedict Evans is Leaving Twitter. Whatever you think of the ‘blue bird’ site today, this is worth a read.
Crunch and Roll: Jo Russell sold insurance by day, played music on the radio by night.
The giggle was an amazing episode of Dr Who. So much to process.