Appalling. Over halfway through this month before summarising last month, and I was sorely tempted to just abandon a report for May.1 I know what that would do to me, eventually. In any case, I have excuses, two week-long trips, one in May, and one the first week in June.
Highlights of the month:
- Continued to fix up the old Raleigh
- Teeth cleaned (mine, not the bike’s)
- A week in Tunisia, unblogged and uncatalogued
- Rode a camel to see bread being baked in desert sand
- Taxes submitted
- Walking tour of the Rome Ghetto; fascinating
- Abandoned my previous monitor speakers and bought a new pair
- Watering system needed only a new battery to function again
- Baby figs!
Activities
Steps down; time on the bus, sleep up. Must be the seasons.
May:
- Walking with sticks: 0
- Reading: 18
- Steps (avge): 7623
- Podcasts: 36 (27 of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 8:27/7:46
- 7 Minutes: 7 days
- Cycled: 3 days
- Weight (avge): 87.3
- Naps: 15
April:
- Walking with sticks: 0
- Reading: 5
- Steps (avge): 9143
- Podcasts: 33 (31 of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 8:12/7:26
- 7 Minutes: 5 days
- Cycled: 4 days
- Weight (avge): 86.8
- Naps: 5
Stuff Done
On the bike restoration, there has to be a word that is considerably less than restoration but considerably more than greasing up the chain. Fixing up doesn’t seem to quite do it. Anyway, I scored a quill stem and a saddle on eBay, though the saddle has not yet arrived. Sniper worked beautifully. The mismatched crank thing is weird too, because I found other pairs of mismatched cranks on eBay that, the sellers said, was just how they found them. Only the frame left now, but I seem to be procrastinating more than usual. Fear of failure, almost certainly, as I have never done anything like this. Of course I blame the wind, because I have to spray outside, but the basic problem is fear, no matter how many YouTubes I watch.
Hours logged per month
Percent of logged hours
Previous years are on an archive page.
Goals
Ten posts here, which is good, even though $project continued to be ignored. Trying to put Keyboard Maestro to more use, but the climb is steep.
Niggles
None?
Final remarks
Portable computing needs to be raised a notch. We will be on the road quite a bit this summer and I want to be able to keep up with things and, indeed, develop new things. So I need to mirror a bunch of things to the laptop and do it in good time.
Here’s the table
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| Month | Total | Daily | Admin % | ETP % | Writing % | Other % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 | 90.75 | 4.1 | 48 | 34 | 10 | 8 |
| 04 | 102.9 | 3.4 | 49 | 25 | 19 | 7 |
| 03 | 117.9 | 3.8 | 40 | 28 | 15 | 17 |
| 02 | 116.3 | 4.8 | 48 | 19 | 15 | 18 |
| 2023-01 | 101.0 | 4.8 | 53 | 31 | 13 | 3 |
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And it wouldn’t have been the first time, on the self same day, no less. ↩
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