Week commencing Monday, 14 August 2023
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 5/7; Exercise 3/7 and Move 3/7. (52%, another poor show). Morning walks: 0/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 0/4. Total steps: 63,768
Life
- Home from the Island Monday evening and back Friday morning. Fastest turnaround for some time.
- That thing about CC, mentioned last week, was confirmed in a Monday morning meeting. So, nobody was winding me up.
- A second documentation portal to worry about at work. Unclear why it’s different from the other one. We agreed to duplicate content as it makes life easier for us.
- I haven’t heard railway station announcements for Inspector Sands for a while. Passing through Clapham Junction on Friday morning and the announcement, slowly and clearly delivered, was on loop. No word on the incident.
- Then Friday to Portsmouth in the first carriage of the train. There were only the four of us for the majority of the journey.
- A day off to travel to Portsmouth allowed time for a trip to Gunwharf Quays. I bought new running shoes for my, as yet, undiscovered running career.
- Rescheduled Ryde Pride, officially Isle of Wight Pride, weekend. A proper community pride event. Wonderful parade down Union Street. Peter Tatchell opening the event, although I was not sure about the women laughing when he spoke about the death penalty. Utmost Elton was a lot of fun. Missed Woody Cook because we were still eating.
- Other food; Friday night Ryde Castle (disappointing), Saturday lunch at the Dell Cafe (wonderful views), Saturday night Ryde Thai (excellent, as always), Quarr Abbey (lovely cafe, MJ bothered by wasps in the garden), Fishbourne Inn (great fish and chips in the sun, not sure the buzzer ever worked).
- Sad news this week, Veteran broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88
Media
- Last week I bought a book in Ryde. This week I finished it and bought both the sequels: “You always know when it’s your first time, don’t you? But you rarely know when it’s your final time”, Thursday Murder Club.
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.