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02.09 – 02.15

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Life

We caught up with Si and Lou at the Great Northern Railway Tavern in Hornsey, a pub selected on the basis that it provides a free and staffed arts-and-crafts table for kids. It was a huge success – we managed to enjoy a leisurely meal and have a normal grown-up conversation while the kids bollocked about with pipe-cleaners and glue for 2+ hours.

We watched a reasonable amount of the olympics in the week. I’ve concluded that the admin required for almost all winter sports is too restrictive – I don’t think there’s anything you can do without access to facilities and/or kit. I find the idea of going to a swimming pool bad enough. I think I’d probably be quite up for cross-country skiing if I lived somewhere snowy. And I’m looking forward to finding out about the ski-mountaineering. I’m definitely more interested in the individual events where there’s an objective winner, and the possibility of getting olympic/world records. I like watching ice dancing, but I remain unconvinced that it needs to be judged – you don’t get that at the ballet. I also think that not enough of the population have tried any of the luge/bob/skeleton things for us to know that the winners really are the best – they’re just the best ones who’ve had access to an insane ice pipe. With running, at least you know that most people have had a go at it at one time or another.

Αα skipped her nap both days at the weekend and she largely ended up behaving like a happy drunk. It deffo made the evening a bit of a challenge but she was largely good natured when she wasn’t punching me in the face.

I spent my working week investigating how we might Shopify the shop, which mostly involved me asking Claude how we might Shopify the shop. My recommendation was to do it headless with the storefront API, but this was possibly quite heavily weighted by what I felt was going to be the most fun thing to develop. Sensible colleagues pointed out that as and when someone piles an unreasonable amount of tickets into our backlog and we no longer have capacity to maintain the shop, it would be a ball-ache to back out of, so the slightly less shiny but almost certainly more sensible Liquid template out-of-the-box-ish solution might be the way to go. I got to make a couple of prototypes though, which was fun.

Zed finally got side-by-side diff viewing. I can now wholeheartedly recommend it as an alternative to VS Code without being too embarrassed about its paucity of features.

Σσ’s work situation remains chronic.

We’ve got one month to find somewhere to rent because work is really actually going to start on our flat. Looking at the cost of renting a place close enough to Ηη’s school makes me feel slightly sick – another cost we hadn’t remotely factored in. Hopefully we’ll hear back from our (possibly AI) solicitor about whether or not we’ve been given a License to Alter the property before the builders start knocking walls down.

Running

Feeling pretty strong. On Saturday my heart was beating faster than it has in years. I think conventional logic says that if your heart is beating faster you should be feeling more knackered, but I often feel like I want it to beat faster when I’m working hard, but it doesn’t, and so I end up feeling knackered. I felt great on Saturday, presumably because my body was getting more oxygenated blood than it’s used to.

The relentless freezing rain on Sunday took the piss and I learned an important lesson about what happens when you forget to vaseline your nether-regions. Αα was also quite scared about my shouting in pain as my hands defrosted.

• Monday: Easy 40' – 4.69mi at 8:36/mi
• Tuesday: Heathside track – 5.57mi at 5:35/mi
• Wednesday: Steady 60' – 9.01mi at 7:02/mi
• Thursday: Tempo – 9.90mi at 7:15/mi
• Saturday: MP 70' – 10.84mi at 6:28/mi
• Sunday: LSR – 20.14mi at 7:31/mi