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04.07 – 04.13

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Life

We had our first proper taste of the chaos of surviving school holidays while being at work. We put Ηη in dance and gymnastics club for three days and it definitely went better than it could have. He didn’t hate it and he was disappointed to have been missing the last day (although I think that was largely due to the fact that he’d heard there would be chocolate). I’m glad he was largely indifferent about it because I was mildly concerned he would really hate it.

I’ve started sketching a lot more since I’m been off games and feel like I’m hitting my stride with it a bit. I bought a job lot of 2B, 4B, and 6B pencils and feel like I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough being comfortable doing rubbish sketches in the moleskine.

We caught up with Elora on Saturday for a very pleasant slightly boozy afternoon in her garden. The kids were on form and ate their body weight in chocolate.

Went to the fair in Finsbo on Sunday. There’s something infinitely depressing about it, but the kids had a laugh and we managed to get in and out without too much drama.

I got an email from the GP to tell me I don’t have TB. I’m glad I wasn’t aware I was being tested for it tbh. I’m also glad I don’t have it. I finished a second round of antibiotics and feel like I’m finally shaking off the last vestiges of seemingly infinite phlegm. Taste and smell is coming back too which is nice. It has given me an insight into how my dad (with his severely compromised pipe-smoker’s taste buds) was happy to drink the roughest of coffee and whisky.

The weather’s been glorious which makes hanging about in playgrounds much more palatable.

Work

• Audio player updates
• Trying to come up to speed on AI agent based editing so as not to get left (even further) behind. I’ve been trying to figure out what the effective difference in all the models is but it’s largely bros on Reddit telling each other they’re wrong as far as I can be bothered to work out. I’ve settled on using Claude for now largely because it has the best name

Reading

• Inversions by Iain M. Banks – best yet (perhaps because it’s only remotely science fiction)

Running

• Saturday Finsbo Parkrun
• Sunday Horrid hill loop