Week commencing Monday, 23 June 2025
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 2/7; Exercise 3/7 and Move 5/7. (48%). Morning walks: 0/3 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/4. Total steps: 44,057
Life
- The weather was still wonderful on Monday. We had our now-traditional post-festival brunch at The Dell Café. Delicious. Then we tried one of the new coffee shops on the Esplanade. Very busy with festival-goers en route back to the mainland.
- Related, the Hovertravel queue was long, but the FastCat had plenty of room. The onward connection to London was delayed considerably. Another “delay repay” situation.
- Wednesday’s 80s nostalgia: Just For One Day: The Live Aid Musical. It’s a high-energy celebration of Live Aid’s iconic music, featuring amazing vocal performances and reinterpretations of 1980s music, avoiding look-alike impersonations. The storytelling might lack some nuance now so much time has passed, but that didn’t spoil it.
- Thursday, drinks at The Ship Tavern near my old Holborn office. Bouldering and powerlifting were on the television screens in the pub. Neither strikes me as a big sporting event.
- Friday, not much more the specialist thinks he can do about my cough. They did discover I have a slight allergy to dust mites. That was the excuse I’ve been looking for to order the robot hoover.
- Barbecue at home. There was a lot of cleaning to do in the morning, which was a shame since the robot had not arrived yet.
- It was delivered on Sunday, but remained in its box.
Media
- Game Changers Radio: “52 per cent of Australians aged 10 and older say they listen to podcasts each month” – that seems like a high percentage to me, but apparently not.
- Rylan: How to Be in Love: Stephen Fry: From 15 years of celibacy to finding love – fascinating episode. Stephen Fry describes his teenage experience of love as a “tempest of feeling”, later suggesting “cheerfulness” is a crucial, often overlooked virtue that significantly improves a relationship. We should all take that advice.
- We have run out of episodes of Murderbot and need some more episodes to drop.
- For some reason, I binged YouTube videos where Good Morning America were preparing to move from their Times Square studios. No idea why I watched so many … but that’s the algorithm for you.
- I also discovered My Tiny Estate. There are a lot of those to keep me busy.