It's my half day at work, half day of hobby gamedev, so I'm excited to get stuck into that. Been learning how to art, which is no simple feat for a programming nerd like myself, but games need both things so here we are!
Tomorrow my other half is off to some family thing, so I get the house to myself. That usually means sitting in blissful silence with no TV or anything, eating macaroni cheese. But occasionally it means a one-woman early 2000s rock dance party so we'll just have to see which way tomorrow goes 😆
My company guarantees one, three-day weekend a month and today is our day off! Gonna play some Zelda, maybe putter around on a personal project.
It's honestly a great system for morale. Highly recommend. Most studies show that productivity goes up when you move to a four-day work week, and this is a great way to dip a toe in that water.
Update: park run was cancelled, but the people who didn't get the memo still showed up. Ended up being an unofficial park run - cam second. Great experience and atmosphere. Would highly recommend to give it a try!
Going out tonight to have a nice steak at a new Steakhouse in town. Then stroll down the hill to see some live music be played in the venue I got married in.
No child to look after tonight so a nice full night sleep 🤨
Tomorrow hosting two friends and going to make a Beef Wellington for the first time, excited to do that.
Goddamn I am so jealous of people who live in places where there are things like restaurants and music and friends. You're very lucky, never forget it!
Haha, well it's cultivated over years. I don't think I could live anywhere that didn't have some form of decent restaurant options and people I could occasionally subject to my imitation of good cooking. As for music, I'm not like the headbanging rock live music type, but a casual evening listening to Hans Zimmer? That's a music event for me.
You must have chosen to live out in the sticks if that isn't a little bit of an option?
You are far braver than I am, I am a pretty decent cook but I have never attempted a beef wellington. Given the weather we are having I would be more likely to portion the beef into steaks and cook them on the BBQ.
I am still in a ridiculous amount of pain, but it doesn't seem like such a big deal now, as I plan to spend the next few days laying in the shade watching the Ashes.
Ah that sounds fun! We went to the one in Manchester a couple times, and there's a smaller more local one called NERG which is usually a good time. I hope your venue is adequately air conditioned, that's all I'll say!
If you spot a Marble Madness machine give it whirl for me.
The usual climbing outdoors but I'm excited to go out for a meal in town with my sister and her partner. Expensive but it always makes me feel good when people come to something I've planned.
Probably venture out for a wander along the canal, although sadly a load of fish have died due to low oxygen in the water so that's really upsetting to see. Sunday morning will be F1 quali highlights for the other half, good cross stitch time for me. Got stuff in for DIY McMuffins too.
Recuperating from 2 days of masquerading as an extrovert with work colleagues in London by sitting alone in my home office and talking to noone. Might talk to my wife occasionally. Maybe the cats too, but they don't talk back.
I'm hoping to finally get on top of my housework and chores this weekend - the weather has been insufferable all week and I haven't had the motivation to do anything in the house and things are piling up.
bitten off more than i can chew walking this afternoon. it's still half an hour back to my car where my water bottle is and i think I've stopped sweating. be smarter than me and carry water!
Working nightshift for 6 more nights, going to miss the nice weather this weekend. Not looking forward to trying to sleep during the day with the heat but hey ho, at least I get a week off when I'm done.
Might try to go swimming. The fiver fest is in town too, so I might do a bunch of random drinking and shopping.
I really need to finally nail down my Fringe plans, too. Can't decide where to stay or how to get there. If not for the 5 year old we'd train and hostel it.
I'm going to the north from London on the train, which confirms what I already know about how ridiculously expensive trains are. It's barely cheaper for two of us to get the train (with a Railcard) than it is to hire a car for the weekend, and no doubt there will be delays.
Looking forward to the slightly cooler weather forecast up there this weekend though!
Doing a meetup tomorrow morning, one of these detective around town things. In the evening, it's my brother in law's birthday so heading down there for jelly and ice cream.