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  • Final day (janathon day 2)

    Journal, Janathon  · 

    Today has been my last day of holiday before returning to work. This is neither good nor bad, really - I’ve enjoyed the holiday, and I’m looking forward to work too, so no complaints from this end.

  • Goodbye 2022

    Journal  · 

    Goodbye 2022. It’s been something of a mixed year. There were some good high points - changing jobs being one of them, and having all the kids being healthy and happy another. But my memory of it will be rather tainted by the awful ending with Tom passing away.

  • Crossing a hurdle

    Journal, Funeral  · 

    Tom’s funeral is today. It’s something that we’ve all been dreading yet needing to happen. We have no idea how many people will be coming to Amersham Cemetery, but I’m guessing it will be a very large number: Tom was a lovely lad, full of life and loved by everyone who met him.

  • Getting back

    Journal, Training, Search  · 

    I’m trying to get my daily pattern back on track, with a certain amount of success. This has been day two of not eating badly, and I usually find that’s around the point where it starts to get a bit easier. I do hope so. While I didn’t get quite as much sleep as I would have liked, it wasn’t...

  • Search (continued)

    Blog, Netlify  · 

    Less words, more code today. I’ve been playing with getting search working on this site, and have made a bit more progress. There is now a behind-the-scenes function that can perform a search on the site and return a list of matching pages, complete with a snippet of what has been found.

  • London

    Journal  · 

    Boxing Day morning was a leisurely affair, after a busy Christmas. The weather was beautiful so after some breakfast we popped down to Amersham Old Town for a short run. Beautiful, but did I mention it was cold?

  • Busy

    Journal  · 

    Today has mostly been a day of preparation for Christmas. I’ve managed to cross off some of the more persistent entries of my Amazing Marvin task management app … a fact only slightly offset by the observation that I’ve added even more items to the end.