Category: Misc
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Weeknotes: 23rd-30th March
This week was annual leave (or rather taking back some of the lieu time I’ve built up recently). It’s not the tandem riding with Sara, afternoon teas and long lazy luxury lunches I’d planned though. It’s been teaching instead. I’ve really enjoyed it. Hugo has too, he’s been able to finish his work hours ahead…
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Weeknotes: 9th-15th March
I’ve been concentrating a lot on catching up on various things, lots of odds and ends to tidy up. I’ve also been concentrating on my leadership course. At the prompt of the leadership course, I read Dan Pink’s Driven in preparation for a talk on motivation I’m doing. His theories about motivation really chime with my experience:…
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Reading 2019
Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson – short story from the Stormlight Archive Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwall – really good historical fiction, some of Cornwalls output seems a little formulaic but this standalone novel felt really imaginative. Codebreakers Secret History – massively comprehensive book covering cryptography until about 1960 (post-enigma computer cryptography is covered only in the…
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2018 in sport
Running Running went downhill for me, I never took it up properly after getting shin splints, I started running more as the year went on but only ever managing 5km or so each week. Over the year I averaged 5km a fortnight, which was rather disappointing. I did run the Bolsover 10k which was supposed…
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Reading 2018
Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick – fantastic, though ending let it down slightly. World War Z by Max Brooks – unusual format – a series of fictional interviews. Nice take on zombie fiction though. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson. Gripping This is the Way the World…
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2017 in sport
Running One of the biggest changes to my life in 2017 was that I took up running. I built up from running 2-3km to regularly running a 5k two-or-three times a week. Running culminated in finishing the rather hilly Hardwick 10k in one hour and 41 seconds. Sadly, after the race my motivation waned and I gradually…
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Reading 2017
Nomad by Alan Partridge. I do miss the TV show Bands of mourning by Brandon Sanderson. Enjoying the Wax and Wayne series more and more Mistborn: secret history. Novella. Reread due to reading Bands of Mourning Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb. Fantastic story telling as usual. Really needs live ships trilogy to have been read…
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Cycling 2016
2016 was my first full calendar year of cycling. Most weeks just have the short ~20 minute round daily commute to the train station. Once the days are longer though and on some weekends I’ve taken the chance to cycle further. In March I bought a new bike – another hybrid, a Giant Roam 2.…
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Reading 2016
First full year commuting by public transport, which is where I’ve done the vast majority of my reading, well on public transport or hanging around empty platforms… I thought 52 books sounded very achievable this year. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (reread) What If? by Randall Munroe – Enjoyable, though I’d read most of…
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Reading 2015
I was very busy playing Destiny so didn’t read much this year until Terry Pratchett’s death in March kickstarted me on a Discworld city watch re-read. Commuting via the train rather than driving also meant I read more after August. Too many re-reads though. We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver – I’d…
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