Posts from 2023-08.

31 August 2023

#3GoodThings

☔️ Arrived home just as the first spots of rain fell, thereby not getting soaked and got the dry washing off the line before it wasn’t dry any more.

🍛 Requested paneer curry and my partner delivered. His cardamom rice was especially yummy.

💐 Safely transported a bouquet of flowers home in my bike pannier, dodging the rain again.

30 August 2023

#3GoodThings

☑️Deciding to sit down at my desk and just make the work thing work this evening, after procrastinating all day, was a good decision, and now the work thing pretty much works and no one ever need know it only took 20 mins and not several days.

👩🏻‍🔧My new local bike workshop seem to be very nice, very fast & very cheap. I hope there’s not a catch.

💬 A conversation I’ve been trying to nudge onwards for the last couple of weeks actually moved a bit.

28 August 2023

#3GoodThings

📑Got lots done on my big work project, feels like it is getting there at last.

🚲 Rambling bike ride exploring the city.

🥛Sharing a bottle of vanilla milkshake with the teen.

26 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🧶 A morning of getting some knitting done whilst watching the athletics.

📚 An afternoon in the sunny armchair finishing my library book.

🍻 Sun in my eyes in the pub, which sounds bad but was actually quite nice.

23 August 2023

It’s being a complicated sort of a week and I keep forgetting #3GoodThings which is one of the things that helps me keep the complications in their places.

📰I’m reasonably confident that “no news is good news”.

💡 I got most of my smart lighting working.

📚 I gave myself permission to give up on the books I was reading but had got bored with and now I’m enjoying the new one I’m reading.

19 August 2023

#3GoodThings

📚 My new central library is amazing! The building, the books, the opening hours (up to 2300 because the bar/theatre/cinema is open so the stacks might as well be too!) I feel like I’m in the future I wanted.

🏢The teen got their university housing sorted and they’ve snagged the en suite bathroom they wanted.

🛍️ I got a ridiculous amount of shopping squeezed into my bike bags and transported home.

18 August 2023

#3GoodThings

👩🏻‍💻My code editor decided it wouldn’t load any files from the server which stopped me dead in my tracks (plus tears, because that’s how you deal with IT problems right?) but eventually I found a workaround to make it do so.

🛋️Rearranging furniture to make the space in the new house work better. I always enjoy real life Sokoban.

🏊🏻‍♀️Now we’ve figured out which pool we like best, we sorted out membership and went for a swim.

17 August 2023

It’s been a mad day, there have been at least #3GoodThings

🧑🏻‍🎓The teen got accepted by the university they wanted onto the course they wanted. They were super worried about it and their A-level grades weren’t what was requested but it worked out anyhow. The relief is huge! I just hope they enjoy it now!

💻The fact that I made the last bit of the code I was writing yesterday work is very minor compared to that.

🫠And I’m just very happy for my baby who’s somehow almost an undergrad!

16 August 2023

#3GoodThings

☕️Remembering to take breaks.

🎨Some paint samples we put on the walls at the old house (in anticipation of redecorating that didn’t happen) turned out to be removable with a scrubbing brush and elbow grease. The hall looks a lot better without them.

👩🏻‍💻Some code that has been very frustrating to write nearly works, and I think sleep is probably necessary before I can figure out why it doesn’t quite work.

15 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🐞 Couldn’t figure out how to fix a bug but looked a bit further into it and discovered I’d already written a workaround for it in the only place that matters. Which will be fine.

🧪 Won a game of Quacks of Quedlinberg, a game where I usually push my luck too far and too often.

🌌Enjoying walking in the dark, I like the changing seasons.

14 August 2023

#3GoodThings

It’s been pretty good as Mondays go.

🛜Fibre internet installed at the new house, with minimal hassle really (for the install, making every device relearn where to connect to has not been minimal hassle!)

📚We managed to sign up for and pick up new library cards, also with minimal hassle.

⛅️Eventually found a dry spot in the day to go out for a walk (rain was determined to make itself maximal hassle to counteract the other things I think!)

13 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🍏 My neighbours were giving away cooking apples so I made crumble with those and the blackberries I foraged.

🏊🏻‍♀️ The new swimming pool was good and I think we’ve found our regular local pool now.

👀I did all the things I said I was looking forward to yesterday, and enjoyed them all.

12 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🛌 I got a ludicrous amount of sleep last night. It seems the cat broke into a packet of treats and ate herself into a stupor and left me to lie. Yay for the self-sufficient cat!

📦 I got the garage full of half unpacked boxes into a reasonably organised state. Differently arranged at least!

🍻 Tonight’s new bar was in a Jacobean Great Hall and it was my fave pub in this city so far.

11 August 2023

And the regular evening edition of #3GoodThings

🚙 Used the “where did I park the car” feature of iPhone/CarPlay in anger when it turned out neither of us had the foggiest idea where we’d left the car.

🍻 Bar that I complained to a couple of weeks ago about having no beer to my taste had more variety tonight (probably coincidence but it was nice).

🍕 The oven in the new house cooks pizza better than the one in the old one.

10 August 2023

Today was a 🤕🤢🤮 sort of a day but it’s over now, I’m feeling better and there were still #3GoodThings

🤝My business partner is very patient when I’m less than 100%

🫖 The teen brews a good recuperative cup of tea.

🛌 I’m back in my own bed tonight.

9 August 2023

#3GoodThings at the end of an exhausting day:

🧼Managed to mostly remove some kind of ancient goopy splatter from a room in the old house. No idea what it was, please don’t send forensics, it was probably art or craft related honest.

👩🏻‍💻I eventually managed to figure out some peculiar undocumented syntax to get the code to talk to the database and serve me up what I wanted.

🤞The people who want to buy our house have found a buyer for their house, so things are looking good on that front.

8 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🛌 Waking after a decent night of sleep.

👩🏻‍💻I didn’t get what I wanted done but I helped other people get what they wanted done, and that’s good enough for today.

🎲 Making board game convention plans for later in the year with my gaming friends.

7 August 2023

I had plans for today and they all went rather skewiff when my night’s sleep turned out to be a short nap, much awakeness and finally a short bit of the sleep you struggle to rouse yourself from and wish you hadn’t bothered trying! But there are still #3GoodThings

🫘 Turning the loose change I found into jellybeans using the self service checkout you just pour cash into.

🐐 Goat’s cheese that melted nicely.

📖Curling up with a book to hopefully make tonight a better sleep night.

6 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🚲 The teen’s bike needs a good service but they got into the city and home again on it.

🍦 We had ice cream by the river.

✏️ Sat in my garden and sketched the back of the house, which was a nice end to a relaxing day.

5 August 2023

#3GoodThings

☔️ Biking in the rain but I didn’t really get wet.

🦔The teen’s turtles thrashed my hedgehogs at Everdell.

🇮🇹 Local Italian restaurant turned out to be very nice.

4 August 2023

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🥪Nice family lunch at the teen’s preferred chain coffee shop.

😸The cat is getting more adventurous in her new home & ventured over the end of garden fence.

😻The cat came home again when we were just beginning to worry she was lost or couldn’t get onto the fence from the other side. She came back over the fence and charged down the garden at 100mph. Everyone’s home, doors locked, good night!

3 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🫧 I’ve cleaned up vast quantities of grimy skirting board and picture rail in the old house over the last couple of days.

🤗 All the family are together again for a few days.

😽So the cat is asleep with the (awake) teen again.

2 August 2023

#3GoodThings

👩🏻‍💻I enjoyed the feeling that work was going to plan while it lasted.

📝And even though I’ve realised part of the work didn’t go to plan I have another plan to deal with that tomorrow. (And I’m pretty certain I can iterate like this several times and we are not back at square 1 and I do not need to beat myself up about the step I missed!)

🧑🏻‍🍳 The teen who does not do cooking was cajoled into making macaroni cheese for our tea and it was good.

1 August 2023

#3GoodThings

🐛 I found a solution to a problem this afternoon that seemed intractable this morning; so I’ve only lost one day to it when it felt like it was going to be much more trouble.

🤗 Hugs with the teen.

🎲 Board games this evening, a break I very much needed.