Blog2020 ≫ Up early running off a curry

I boasted yesterday that I'd be up and out running before anyone else was out of bed this morning, so I had to stick to it. I was awake sort of at about 6.30 but jumped up at 7.30 when my unneccessary alarm went off. This alarm is left over from January I think when I was going out for a run every day. I've kept it because there are no real lie-ins, and it's nice to get up. This morning I got up and ran.

It's a lovely morning, I did the route to Waitrose and back along Princes Parade. I saw one person swimming in the sea1, one paddle-boarder, and about a million billion fishermen. Lots of walkers and runners too even at that time. I could hear one guy heading up fast behind me, so thought a) serious runner and b) I must be going a bit slower than usual. When he went past me he must have been twenty years older than me, and I checked my watch and I was doing a 4'45km which is faster than my recent pace. So, I'm running, but I'm not really putting the effort into it. Still, nice, and another 5k ticked off. If only these were counting towards another parkrun t-shirt.

Back to the curry, let's do the weekend so far in reverse order. For a treat we got a takeaway from the Clay Oven. I ordered online and went to collect it, and it was good. My cauliflower side dish was a little sloppy again, but most importantly I forgot to order the samosas. This was the main point of it I think for the boys, so slight disappointment. They enjoyed their tandoori chicken, and tarka dahl, but both seem to have gone off naan. I had dansak and vindaloo and there's enough left over for lunch today. I bumped into our window cleaner2) there, and then thought aargh I furloughed him to save money, how does it look that I don't have enough money to pay him but I have enough for takeaways? But then thought he's doing alright as he's also getting takeaways. He says he's busy and we're both exercising but missing the parkrun.

Before the curry I did a 10km walk to Morrisons on a quest for doughnuts. They did not have doughnuts. I did get some cider and wine and beers, and some vegan food that was on special. Two pasties, one for lunch, one for the freezer, and two lentil hotpot ready meals that were down to 1/4 of the price as it was the last day of best before. They're good for home freezing though, result. I had shopping for Jim too so walked via his house to drop it off and decided to leave the heavy stuff there for Clare to pick up later when she went round. Accidentally left my pasty, so got chips and mushy peas on the way home. A good long walk, but undid all the goodness right there, not a healthy eating day.

I started Saturday with an email out of the blue from a friend from Fortune City, he'd heard I was restarting popex and just thought to say hi. He's been in New Zealand for ages, and they're just coming out of the other side of lockdown. This inspired me to contact another friend from Fortune City days just to catch up and let her know about popex (as it's her designs that I will roll with next time I update) and she had a mixed bag of news.

Popex had a bit of a hiccup, I had to delete my only three players. I'd messed up something when saving new accounts so it let them play, but next session it wouldn't let them log in again. This is why I'm doing a very soft launch, I might put it out there more next week. And link to it from here of course. I have also updated it to save less often, as I found when updating the info for the divis that I got a warning "too many writes" to the database. I want to keep it as close to free as possible so there will be some compromises. I've done some work to make it easier to update the divis, but I do need to automate a bit more of it to make sure it keeps rolling without me keep tinkering with it.

Going back even further in time, the Inn Doors was open for my regular 5pm session on Friday! Only for takeaway, but still. The new decoration is looking nice, it's going to make a good Zoom background for the next time I call my buddies:

Earlier on Friday Clare had to do an extra few hours of work, there was no-one else to do all the National Trust security checks. She had to go check the gates and things around the properties, so took thing one with her for a day of work. It's nice for the boys to spend a few hours apart, so they appreciate each other more. Also it meant lots of good photo opportunities which Clare can use for the work "catching up" email. I'm doing nothing like this, I'm only in touch with a couple of workmates and very informally. While he was out doing this, thing two and I did more fun homework than normal. We did a science experiment, making some invisible ink. Proper mixing of chemicals from his set! Then we played two different kinds of Monopoly - that will do for maths homework for the day.

Two more things from Friday, I finally attempted the "Bring Sally Up" push-up challenge, think I died at 1'13 in, though it was right after our Joe Wicks. Also we did Jason Manford's quiz live on Friday night. A bit easy but very good, will do that again.

Clare has also been for a run this morning, and now she's going to do an online pump class, so the lounge is out of bounds for the kids for the next hour. This afternoon thing two is going for a walk with Grandpa for the first time since the lockdown. Making the most of a truly lovely day. Iwill hopefully make a nice presentation out of the science we did so we can send it in to the school, and maybe finally finish that book I'm reading. It's not very good.

Clare is thinking of going back to Morrisons today so maybe I will get those doughnuts...

Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + UK + Italy + Spain + France + Germany

popex graph Graph line from 11451.0 to 18090.0🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Graph line from 3278.0 to 7959.0🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Graph line from 1536.0 to 3849.0🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Graph line from 1272.0 to 3637.0Spain Spain Graph line from 1459.0 to 5855.0France France Graph line from 649.0 to 1577.0Germany Germany Y axis of graph 0 - 5000 - 10000 - 15000 - X axis of graph Apr 20 '20 21 '20 22 '20 23 '20 24 '20 25 '20 26 '20 27 '20 28 '20 29 '20 30 '20 May 1 '20 2 '20 3 '20 4 '20 5 '20 6 '20 7 '20 8 '20 9 '20 10 '20 11 '20 12 '20 13 '20 14 '20

5k: Five km, about three miles in old money.

10k: Ten kilometres, just over six miles to you. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step-count target.

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Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in A small town. Wed to Clare + father to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, + I do mostly js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, running, eating, home-automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.