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01.05 – 01.11
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Sun Jan 11 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Life

We dragged the Christmas tree out and seemingly wound up with more pine needles on the floor than were ever on its branches. Two hoover bags full sealed the decision to plump for a fake tree next year.

I survived the day-long quarterly planning meeting at work and got back into the swing of telling Claude what to do then getting increasingly frustrated with Claude for fucking it up while being infuriatingly chipper.

We welcomed Boots the largely black cat into our home on Thursday. She’s staying with us until we get our flat renovated or the Robinsons move out of their temporary accommodation – whichever comes first. Ηη was hugely against the idea of having a cat in the house in theory, but seems to be quite happy with the situation in practice. Αα thinks she’s got a new sister and spends her time terrorising it. Fortunately she’s quite old, very low maintenance, and largely keeps to herself. I get the strong impression the kids will start agitating for a cat when she has to leave (and I guess I might too). It’s comforting having another soul padding about the place. And I haven’t seen a mouse for days.

I went to the doc because of a back pain that previously transpired to have been the result of a chest infection. She confirmed that my old pal crackle-on-the-left-lung is in town so I’m back on the antibiotics. There’s every chance it’s also common or garden back muscle pain too so I’ve ponied up for a massage gun. I’m envisaging (and am slightly excited about) hours of post-run masochism ahead.

This site

Wrote a markdown-it plugin to strip out iA Writer authorship annotations

function stripIAWriterAnnotations(md) {
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  md.render = function(src, env) {
    // Remove iA Writer annotation blocks
    // Pattern matches from "---\nAnnotations:" until "..." on its own line
    const stripped = src.replace(/^---\s*\nAnnotations:[\s\S]*?^\.\.\.$/m, '');
    return defaultRender(stripped, env);
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}

Reading

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Running

Next thing to worry about: bursitis.