Week commencing Monday, 6 May 2024
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 6/7; Exercise 5/7 and Move 7/7. (86%). Morning walks: 2/3 (happy to have restarted the trend). Office days 1/5. Total steps: 67,658
Life
- Bank holiday Monday. It rained, quite a lot. I stayed inside, quite a lot (but not entirely).
- As it turns out, the washing machine was not fixed by fluke as I thought last week. Awaiting another engineer.
- Tuesday was sunny. I did a morning walk again and it felt good. It felt even better to do it again on Wednesday.
- Even if you don’t like Eurovision, you should have watched it for the amazing sets & Petra Mede. Sweden knows how to do it. The final was fun and, for once, the winner was in my top 3.
- Related. For the first time in many years we watched it away from our house at the home of friends. As we were not entertaining, and as they provided a helpful scorecard, we watched every song. Some of them felt much longer than three minutes. The accompanying food was lovely.
- Dinner with Greg on Wednesday night was Japanese (Koyn) and wonderful (both in company and food). Also, expensive. But as it’s our once-every-two-years meet-up, I’m OK with that.
- By the end of Thursday I was tired so skipped the work karaoke session. Probably for the best.
- Went to hire a mourning suit in Wimbledon on Friday evening. They were closed. Met PY and sat in the – very small – beer patio at All Bar One. Spontaneous and fun.
- Managed to do the hiring on Saturday. But it will be delivered the day before it is needed. Nervous.
- Sunday, on the way back from our Eurovision stay, to God’s Own Junkyard: a treasure-trove of neon. Wonderful, evocative and bright.