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06.08 – 06.14

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Life

The cat chilled out a bit after a few days and didn’t inflict any more damage on the kids. Ηη is still (understandably) refusing to move around the flat without a chaperone though. The presence of the cat has precipitated a slew of intense anxiety dreams, but I think my stress hormone levels are gradually receding now. Hopefully we’ll all get along soon.

I was in charge of monitoring bugs for the week at work, and there’s very few things more capable of making me feel like an imposter than having to navigate the AWS console to figure out what has been happening in the infinite array of service dashboards and logs. My line manager always does a commendable job of trying to help me to learn to fish, and I invariably behave like a petulant child, eager to weaponise my incompetence at the earliest opportunity. But I think it’s high time I dealt with this personal failing and have resolved to at least try to improve (and at least not behave like a prick about it if it turns out I can’t improve).

The builders have been pressing on with impressive pace. We narrowly avoided having a wildly inappropriate boiler installed. Thankfully the architect was on site and started asking questions about why it needed to be so big. He put in some calls to the main contractors and it seemed like things were on the verge of getting wildly out of hand (“we’ll knock down another wall and you’ll have to make do without some of the kitchen”), but ultimately good sense won out and somebody suggested we took the massive boiler back and got a more reasonably sized one. Otherwise things seem to going to schedule.

I spent far too long discussing ‘microcement’ and ‘limewash’ paint finishes with the architect – two things I didn’t know existed until Σσ stepped up to the choosing-the-pain-colours plate towards the end of the week. I stopped listening after a while but I think the take home is that they would both be a ball ache and dramatically increase the amount of time and money we’d have to sink into the project. I’m going to leave it to Σσ to continue that conversation.

We spent a lot of the weekend in the Lloyd Park playgrounds adjoining the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow. I’m not sure anyone had much fun, but it got us out of the flat.

Σσ is close to full burn out at work. I’m not too sure what can be done about it. I get the impression she’s so good at what she does that people just assume that she’ll always go above and beyond and don’t recognise that she needs any backing or respect for doing so. Living in Higham’s Park isn’t particularly helping either. She deserves a lot better.

Running

Foot still hurting and I didn’t feel bad about not running at the weekend.

• Wednesday: Lunch Run – 5.07mi at 8:40/mi