Week commencing Monday, 18 December 2023
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 3/7; Exercise 4/7 and Move 4/7. (52%, I was ill). Morning walks: 0/5. Plant diversity: 19. Total steps: 47,242
Life
- Made it to Christmas Eve. Not the Christmas we were planning. But, we’re ready for tomorrow and, in the end, I watched a lot of excellent stuff on screens which I’ve documented below.
- I now know why I was exhausted yesterday. Less about the late nights last week more about COVID. Not good this close to Christmas. Monday afternoon and Tuesday were the worst days, but there was light at the end of the week. I checked, there are no rules only recommendations now.
- Related, nobody wants to see me sneeze on conference calls. Camera off.
- Related, all my social events cancelled. A lot of time at home. The room in which I work is very warm compared to the rest of the house.
- I was well enough to finish the shopping on Saturday and Sunday. Turkey acquired (too big for two).
- Administration 1: I had the wrong dates on weeknotes #46. The error lives on with The Wayback machine.
- Administration 2: Re-reading my 2020 Instagram retrospective I had a wrong date in the text for the 2019 entry. Corrected; this mistake also lives on.
Media
- Last week, I forgot to mention I finished reading Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries. Fascinating, compelling, and I did shed a tear at the end.
- Based on the real-life Kim Philby story: A Spy Among Friends. Brilliant drama with Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce.
- Based on real-life man hunts: The Long Shadow and The Hunt for Raoul Moat. Well produced but terrible events.
- Saturday night: A Haunting in Venice was OK but I am not a fan of the supernatural bits; Wham is a well crafted documentary that took me back to buying Fantastic in Argos, Wigan. Andrew comes across as a real friend. Lovely.
- Christmas Eve: I always think Hairspray is joyous; Nobody memorizes every page of their dead father’s notebooks for the money: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. A bit too ‘chase-after-chase-after-chase’. It does, however, feature the temple at Segesta.
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. YouTube links don’t seem to archive well so I don’t list them. If the source above no longer works, these should.
- Goodreads: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
- itvX: A Spy Among Friends; The Long Shadow; The Hunt for Raoul Moat’ Hairspray
- Netflix: Wham
- Disney: A Haunting in Venice; Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Blip: temple at Segesta