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  • Monday (janathon day 23)

    Journal, Janathon  · 

    It’s been a busy day today, which I like. Also a pretty cold one, which honestly I’m not quite so keen on. It started with my early-morning training bootcamp thing, which was really mighty cold (something like -6C apparently). There was a certain amount of lying down to do core exercises, too, which thankfully got replaced second time round -...

  • Paperwork (janathon day 21)

    Journal, Janathon, Admin  · 

    What do we hate? HMRC. Why do we hate them? Because they make us go through a hellish process every year, which is bad news for someone with a tendency to leave things to the last minute.

  • Iterating (janathon day 20)

    Journal, Janathon, Meta  · 

    I decided to have a go at forming a daily blogging habit about two and a half months ago. Since then, the habit does seem to have formed fairly strongly; apart from when I’ve been ill, I have written a blog post every day since then. It’s been fun, too.

  • Training app (janathon day 19)

    Journal, Janathon, Training  · 

    If you’ve ever wanted to use an app to track your training, and you have an Android phone, I have a recommendation for you. The app is called FitNotes, and it is excellent. It does a single thing - tracking training - and does it very well. It’s also free (but you can become a supporter, which I ended...

  • Time management (janathon day 18)

    Journal, Janathon  · 

    Every day at the moment seems to be overly busy, without enough time to do the things I feel like I need to. I have a horribly long (and growing) list of things at home and work that need to be done by January 31. Clearly something is going wrong here.

  • Busy (janathon day 17)

    Journal, Janathon  · 

    Today has been pretty busy. The work that I couldn’t face doing last night ended up taking quite a long time today. After getting back, I managed a quick yoga class, then some boring admin stuff around a daughter’s university accommodation. And now it is time for bed, so there’s not going to be much more here today!

  • Work (janathon day 16)

    Journal, Janathon  · 

    I’m sitting here with a pile of work I need to complete. But I’m thinking about having done exactly that at the same stage last week, and know what the consequences were. So instead I’m going to take the alternative approach and just go straight to bed. Fingers crossed I’ll be fresh as a daisy in the morning!

  • Wordleversary (janathon day 15)

    Journal, Janathon, Wordle  · 

    Wordle statistics I noticed recently that I was approaching what I call my Wordleversary - and I have been celebrating it today. This is to say, I have completed 365 Wordles. I can’t remember the exact day I started, but it would have been just over a year ago as I have missed just...

  • Two-factor authentication (Janathon day 14)

    Journal, Janathon, Security  · 

    Today has not gone to plan. Early signs were a bit worrying - today’s Wordle was a nightmare (more of that tomorrow). And then, while stuck on the last chance to guess the words with only a few letters known, an email arrived which made it clear that someone had just succeeded in hacking in to Ellie’s Instagram account.