Day: 4 September 2022

Weeknotes #18

Week commencing Monday, 29 August 2022

Symphonic Universe

Quantified Self

  • This week: Stand 6/7; Exercise 4/7 and Move 5/7. (71%, down again).

Life

  • Lovely to meet Gerry and Paul at the Hampton Court Palace food festival. It was a great way to spend a bank holiday morning. Ended up trying remarkably little of food.
  • To Jo & Phil’s for a barbecue the same evening, and considerably more food was consumed: I am not sure how they do it, but the barbecue is always perfectly done.
  • The Riverside Studios in Hammersmith were once, albeit prior to the redevelopment, one of the many homes of the BBC’s Doctor Who and Quatermass. We went for ‘an evening in a dungeon with a gorgeous male escort’. Or, more accurately, to see Horse Play a comedy about such a situation. I feared it would be a bit cringeworthy and, actually, it was really amusing.
  • Thursday was my last day in the office: some lovely words were said, and there was a great gift. It felt a bit odd leaving the building, but we had fun at the drinks.
  • Friday was even odder, as I was officially working but had no company equipment. Mainly used webmail to send my goodbyes.
  • A wonderful evening at The English Grill in Victoria with Rashmi. It looks like she will be moving to the US.
  • Saturday night it was off into the Symphonic Universe at the Royal Festival Hall where the London Concert Orchestra played film scores, mainly – but not exclusively – from the Marvel Universe (think Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man and Captain America). It was quite a last-minute booking, and I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like, but it was superb.

Break

I am going to take a break from Weeknotes as I’ve decided to spend some time decorating and visiting family before I start my new job. Hopefully, I will be back doing this at some point.

Archive

To save the links getting lost in the future I checked the Internet Archive to see what they had saved for the posts linked here. If the original source above no longer works, these should.

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Originally posted at curnow.org and archived at The Wayback Machine.

View From Above

Great pictures on other people’s web sites.

Matt Haughey has a superb picture of San Francisco on Ten Years Of My Life (entry for 1 September 2004), which – for some reason – is making me yearn to go back there. I once visited on a rainy week in 2000. It was a business trip, and my first time in the US, so there were so many other things going on that I didn’t really appreciate it as much as I would have liked to. I do remember the view from the top of the Marriott, but it’s certainly not as good as Matt’s view from the plane.