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09.22 – 09.28

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Life

I saw a picture of Aila walking outside the hospital without wires coming out of her and I started weeping. I hadn’t realised how much I had bottled up. I kept on thinking that I had got myself back together but it kept on turning out that I really hadn’t. Fortunately it was firebreak week at work so I didn’t have to embarrass everyone by breaking down in the office.

I’ve continued on my poacher-turned-gamekeeper-for-AI journey, and ponied up for Claude Code. I’m truly astonished by how awful it is at anything date-related, but broadly speaking I can see the power and utility of the agent-driven coding approach. I’m increasingly worried about what the shape of my own career path might be now – I’m trying not to be all doomsayer about it, but frankly I don’t think it’s looking good for me! On the plus side, I guess I’m in relatively close to the ground floor for whatever comes next, but the bigger question is do I really want to do whatever that is? Increasingly I find myself telling a robot to do some work then reviewing its mess and telling it to do better – I’m not sure that was ever why I got into it.

Still, I’ve vibe-coded my weather app in to a state that I think is now genuinely quite useful, albeit at the mercy of the less-than-perfect (but refreshingly free) pirate weather API.

Σσ had to go to the Labour Party conference at the weekend which the kids were less than impressed about, but we managed ok. Ηη was delightfully keen to be going back to Junior Parkrun – the excitement was only slightly tarnished by me getting the start time wrong and taking him half an hour too late. He didn’t let it get him down though and still insisted on doing it with me pushing Αα around in the buggy (she now cheers “YOU CAN DO IT BIG BRO” any time he runs anywhere, which is painfully cute). I was very proud of him, both for running it so well, and for getting over the fact that I’d messed up the timings. I think he might be hooked on it now and I’ve promised that I’ll take him whenever he wants to go.

Started to not-quite-but-almost panic about the Manchester Marathon (hence the reading material below). It really is a long way, and c. 6:50 per mile really does seem quite fast when I stop and consider the reality of it.

Reading

• Advanced Marathoning by Scott Douglas and Pete Pfitzinger – lots of miles
• Hansons Marathon Method: Run Your Fastest Marathon the Hansons Way by Luke Humphrey – fewer miles, maybe more pain

Running

• Tuesday Heathside track
• Wednesday easy 40’
• Thursday Hills
• Saturday LSR
• Sunday Junior Parkrun