More bike riding than writing (or dog walking). Monday 2020/06/22 Should have been on holiday in Shetland. Rode the bike to work as a test of the route and how long it would take. My tracking app put me at 55 min to get there and 45 min to get back. The wind was definitely …
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Quarantine – Week thirteen
Live Updates? Monday 2020/6/08 Royal Society of Chemistry meeting via Zoom to kick the week off. Seemed to go well, but we did miss the catered lunch. For once I’m slightly ahead of my commitments to the group, so I just need to wait for my co-author’s draft to arrive and I can add in …
Quarantine – Week twelve
History in real-time. Monday 2020/6/01 I’ve been in my current job 11 years today. I’ve mostly worked on the REF case study today. Spent the day blocking adverts on Twitter and processed images of the moon taken a few days ago. Probably the last of the astro images for a while, as the nights are …
Quarantine – Week eleven
The ongoing train wreck just ploughed through the burning orphanage and is headed for the oil refinery. Monday 2020/5/25 Speculation is rife that Dominic Cummings will resign / not resign. He’s giving a speech from the garden of Number 10 later. Most irregular. Later : We’re fucked. People will now do just what they want. …
Quarantine – Week Ten
Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines. Monday 2020/5/18 Another day I should have been away with M. Builders did more on kitchen. Camping upstairs while they work. Found an old circuit I’d made as part of a radio I planned to build. Never did get around to finishing …