Welcome Hi (´∀｀)ノ. This is my home on the internet. It is mainly my microblog but you’ll find some other stuff. Contents You’ll find: 📆 Week Note...
I am typing here while my spouse sleeps and I ought to settle. I’m finding it hard to let go of the weekend and accept the week ahead. Mondays in particular are input-heavy days with many stakeholder meetings; combined this week with both school runs, a cricket club pickup and dragging all the kids to my eldest’s drama audition ... I am dreading the day. I worked a bit late on Fri and a little…
The word that sums up this week is: thin . I continue to be stretched by work, and am feeling very ‘thin’. I foresaw a tough day on Tuesday so booked myself into a lunchtime swim and sauna, which was lovely. It was still really tough and I had to think about being someone who is focused on showing up despite everything. A top moment for me was taking a break on Sunday to read my novel after…
It’s been another crappy week and I can’t face typing up and posting my week notes. This weekend I have enjoyed a new single malt, Talisker Skye. I recently rediscovered a poem I wrote, which is enough for today: Though the dark dell of night gives way to a slate sky though the tungsten glow masks the glories I know the stars are there stars no less bright stars that shout and sing songs that make…
Normally at this time I would type up my week notes and post here. I have written them down on paper but the tank is empty. As a result of talking with my sponsor I think I have a better understanding of what made last week such a killer: lack of agency over my time. When over multiple days, this is a huge stressor for me; and this has been cumulative for months. This weekend has been great, but I…
We'll it’s been a shitty couple weeks. Work has been really tough; tears have been shed. Still hanging in there, somehow. I had a 6 hour round trip drive to a project site this week and listened to a double CD set of John Denver. This really resonated and I listened to it over and over: I am the eagle, I live in high country In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky I am the hawk and there's blood…
The word that sums up this week is: sun! . By golly it was lovely this week. The weather finally broke and it’s been glorious. I’ve also had an extra two days annual leave this week (with the kids at school ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! ), which has been so restful. A top moment for me was getting a load of charity shop picture frames and decorating the hall & stairs. I also rearranged my bedroom a little: got a…
I have been enjoying my CAL.md, a plaintext calendar, for a couple months. I have only used it for personal reminders as the family calendar, single-source-of-truth is a traditional wall-hung month-view calendar; no chance of changing that! I still like my own plaintext file to keep track of a few things, especially finance, birthdays, and such. I tried the very basic one line per day approach per…
This week note sorta covers the last two weeks. A tad longer! The word that sums up this week is: paint . We paid a friend to come and paint our hall/stairs/landing plus a kid’s room and the living room. The setup, decisions, marking out, and putting back have dominated quite a bit of this week. It was pretty disruptive (to be expected) which dredged up low level trauma feelings from the house…
It’s impossible to journey through this life without collecting a large trunk of regrets. I am not going to pull out and thumb through the serious ones here: but in pondering my past today, a few ‘ wish-I-hads ’ came to mind. I post them here as a way to acknowledge how small a vision I (we) have of what future-me will want or need. These are not serious regrets about things that shape…
The word that sums up this week is: resilience . A top moment for me was taking the weekend a bit easier (as it is a bank holiday) and spending time together as a family. Something I’m looking forward to next week is using up some time in lieu. “The brain can do really hard things for a long time if it's not alone”. Kurt Thompson Headlines May w/c 2026-04-27 Understanding. Again, how easy it can…