Runuary day one done. I'm going to run every day this month. Should not be a big deal, I'm sure lots of people do it anyway and longer distances than me, but it I will find it a bit of a challenge. Was nice out this morning, bright and clear, lots of people out and about, and so sunny that it didn't feel as cold as it was. Still only just above freezing, but not icy underfoot like it was yesterday.
Last night was understated but nice. We had a huge fajita dinner first, though the boys ate less than they normally would. We had budgeted four wraps each, but they both stopped after two. It's not that they weren't hungry, but more that they had spied the pile of extra snacks in the lounge for later and were saving room. We played some games, just charades really. We tried an online charades suggestion thing but they had a real dated american bias that the boys could not get along with. Maybe there is a market for me to make something that randomly selects a film or tv programme from amazon and pops it up on a screen, along with a timer? We struggled with the scoring and the timing of this a bit. I am overthinking a simple game. Maybe we should get Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair round to act out the charades for us. We ate the crisps and nuts and things and watched some fairly disappointing TV. Nice try Paddy McGuinness, and we do appreciate that you kept it all family friendly even though it was on after the watershed but it was all a little bit limp. We saw some local fireworks off the balcony, and then the London ones at midnight, they were good1. Then we watched previous years celebrations on youtube, then put the boys to bed, then watch a few quizzes. I did my best to hoover up all the open booze in readiness for Dry January but there was too much for me, and I knew I wanted to get up and run today. So I have left open a box of my favourite cider, and half a bottle of prosecco, that Clare might polish off. She is not not drinking. There's also an open bottle of very nice sherry in the fridge that she got as a christmas present. Maybe it'll still be there and good in Febrewery..?
Thing two was up at watching Minecraft on youtube before I went out for my run, thing one only just got out of bed now at midday. It's going to be a lazy day and a quiet day. Relatively lazy anyway, running aside, All is quiet on New Year's Day, because there's no washing machine on, because my Nan would not like it. I'm not much of one for traditions or superstitions, but we still don't do washing on new year's day.
I had a really good day of work yesterday, got the work done that I wanted to, have reengineered some things that we need to use. I'm moving to a new "working group" building a new part of the system this year and the work I did sets things up nicely for that. Also on work, heard a hint of some good news yesterday that and old team mate is applying to Tesco too. It's good for him, though I don't know if it'll actually be our team. He will be a great loss to the company he leaves behind though, I wonder how many people are really left? I don't want the company to struggle, especially as they owe me money still and I still have shares. Until they can figure out a way of valueing them down to zero and then buying them back.
I had something else to add here but I can't remember what it was now. Maybe about shares? I have done some more small scale investing, including in Tesla that everyone has heard of, and that's doing well. Also taken a punt on a green energy company Ceres that has been doing very well for Dave. Only £100 at a time but it's an interesting way of saving. A bit more volatile than the premium bonds, but intersting and fun.
Hmm, it turns out European travel is going to be less convenient from now on, who knew???
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 19782844 | 343181 |
| Brazil | 7506890 | 191641 |
| India | 10224797 | 148190 |
| Mexico | 1383434 | 122426 |
| Italy | 2056275 | 72370 |
| UK | 2329730 | 71153 |
| France | 2562646 | 63610 |
| Russia | 3078035 | 55265 |
| Iran | 1206373 | 54814 |
| Spain | 1894072 | 50122 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Mexico + Italy + UK
dryanuary: Not drinking for the month of January.
runuary: Running at least 5k every day for the month of January.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in A small town. Wed to Clare + dad to two, I'm a full-stack web developr, and I do mostly javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, restaurants, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.