Weeknotes 146

The weeknotes have really suffered this week; can you guess why? The physical move is a massive hassle, obviously, but it’s the admin and bureaucracy that gets you. Still, I am sort of getting excited about moving now.

My Amazon account and debit card at getting absolutely hammered with stuff for the new house 🔨

In an attempt to continue my health and fitness progress I’ve signed up for a new gym a 10 minute walk from my new house (I’m hoping this will mean at least some steps each day). They happened to be running a special deal when I signed up so I get my first month for £13, which is a nice way to see if it suits me.

I’ve been doing small, but tedious jobs around the flat this week. The flat, has, in the past, suffered from some sort of water ingress as is evidenced by persistent water marks. We (all the residents in the building) had expensive chimney restoration done last year, and previous to that, a complete new flat roof.

Still, I have decoration issues inside which may be leading to something more as my attempts to “make it good” went downhill. I think I need an expert.

We started watching Fallout and despite never having played the games I like it so far. Considering The Road is one of my favourite films, anything with a bit of apocalypse suits me.

Taskmaster exposed me to Sophie Willan and I also started watching Alma’s Not Normal. Worth checking out.

Despite being busy with loads of other stuff, I procrastinated enough to book my hotel and train to Brighton Ruby 2024 in June. I’m glad that’s sorted. I’m more interested in seeing friends than I am the conference tbh, but it’s been a constant for some years now, and I think that’s worth supporting. See you then.

Don’t worry, I had still had time this week to uncontrollably, unnecessarily, worry about my current task at work. Sorted it now 🙄

We attended a cookery course a few weeks ago which I seem to have forgotten to mention until now. One of the things we made was Gnoochi, which I’m ambivalent to at best, but this turned out nice and we had a lot leftover to freeze. So I made this sauce to go with remainder this week – recommended.

Of course, in order to do so these fancy Italian tomatoes were absolutely crucial to the success of the dish. I am a fool, but a happy one.

The Great Move is next Friday. Will the weeknotes weather that storm?