A small selection of flowers wild and cultivated
New Photos
On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible.
Highlights of the month:
- Published a link to Photographs on the main site
- Seedlings still having a hard time of it, but other stuff on the terrace flourishing
- Sporadic meals outdoors
- Good bike rides
- Visit to the firefighters’ museum
- Sinners in the cinema at midday
- 300 issues of Eat This Newsletter
- Started on a Melt the ICE hat with yarn selected by The Squeeze
- A few days away as designated driver for The Squeeze
- Watering system working again
- Trains to and from Düsseldorf for IWC
- Visit with an old chum not seen in years
- Poor lecture on a fascinating topic; floods on the Tiber.
Activities
April:
- Walking with sticks: 1
- Reading: 12
- Steps (avge): 8356
- Podcasts: 14 (all of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 7:52/7:43
- Cycled: 3
- Weight (avge): 90.8
- Naps: 14
March:
- Walking with sticks: 2
- Reading: 24
- Steps (avge): 8383
- Podcasts: 14 (all of them logged)
- In bed/asleep 8:11/8:02
- Cycled: 2
- Weight (avge): 90.3
- Naps: 16
Daylight savings → less time in bed
Stuff Done
IWC DUS was a lot of fun, seeing old friends and meeting new ones. I didn’t achieve much on Create Day, unless you count learning how much more I have to learn to do the thing I wanted to do: style webmentions. Now that I know, it is equal top of my todo list, but I have not actually made a start, which may be contributing to a growing sense that things are out of control.
Hours logged per month
See Niggles; to be updated when I am back at the desktop machine. Done 2026-05-20.
Percent of logged hours
Previous years are still on an archive page.
Goals
Five posts isn’t too shabby.
Niggles
About that out of control feeling: This often happens when I have been away from home too much, twice this month. Things back up while I am away, partly because I am busy with other stuff and partly because I am not as happy doing things on the laptop as I am on the desktop machine. At IWC I made a list of tasks I needed to finish to make the laptop more of a mirror in its capabilities. I did some of them, but that has to continue, which will require more learning. Still, that’s what I live for.
One example, in the spirit of thinking out loud. I have a few Python scripts that I rely on to do some tedious analysis, like make the graphs of how I spend my time. I very seldom need to run them from the laptop, and when I do, often the underlying data are not here. I can imagine a few solutions, with varying levels of complexity and fragility. I could share the entire Python folder using Syncthing. Inefficient. I could remind myself to copy the files from one machine to the other before any trip. Fragile. Or I could put the Python stuff on my Raspberry Pi and access it via Raspberry Pi Connect or Tailscale. How? But I can’t decide where to put my initial efforts. I suspect doing it on the Pi would have the biggest potential future payoff, but I don’t know, and that makes it hard for me to begin.
Final remarks
All is actually very good, and I am currently enjoying sunshine and stout in County Limerick, so, yes!
Here’s the table
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| Month | Total | Daily | Admin % | ETP % | Writing % | Other % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 | 67.75 | 3.05 | 58 | 32 | 10 | 0 |
| 03 | 103.3 | 4.75 | 58 | 29 | 13 | 0 |
| 02 | 112.3 | 4.9 | 57 | 28 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 54.25 | 4.2 | 56 | 9 | 35 | 0 |
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