Hectic week. Crazy busy with work. My big project is not quite live yet, dependencies on other teams though. Still little snagging things for me to do anyway. It's good being busy. Then Friday should have been a more interesting day doing different things, and it was, just not the interesting and different things I thought. There was an incident on Thursday night and so we all had to work on things to make sure this could not happen again.
Missed several opportunities to post things in the week... Didn't have to go to London on Thursday, so took the opportunity to go out for dinner. We went to Sunshine in Hythe, it was nice, and extra nice because I called in the Potting Shed on the way. Did I even write up that I went to London on Monday, out of choice? Afternoon off, a nice walk around, a pint in The Harp and a half in The Coach And Horses then met with old friends in The Nellie Dean for a memorial for a friend.
T2 had a concert at school, he got to show of his guitar playing. He went first, on his own, and he was good. I'm really proud of how quickly he's gone from "not playing the guitar" to "playing a tune you can recognise" and playing it in front of other people. I'm also proud of T1, but he is the reason for my slow parkrun today:
Folkestone parkrun results for event #386. Your time was 00:36:39.
Congratulations on completing your 124th parkrun and your 112th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 297th place and were the 178th Male out of a field of 353 parkrunners and you came 27th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:23:24
297 out of 354... It was the first time T1 had done a 5k though, so we jogged a bit and walked a bit, but we got there. He'd never done anything like that distance, I think he's up to about ninety seconds of running on the couch to 5k app. This sets a good time for him to build on, though he's not that keen to have another go. He had to do this one as part of his DofE.
Oh, pay day yesterday, and actually profit share bonus pay day so I am quids in. We have booked a little trip that we are not telling the boys about yet and bought some shares and some premium bonds and that's it basically gone. Of course the money sent on stonks and premium bonds is not really "gone", it is saved. Still got a bit left for treats, including a trip to London next weekend.
Had a lovely evening in The Potting Shed again yesterday. It was fairly quiet in there, it often is at the start of a bank holiday weekend apparently.
Clare is in Canterbury shopping today, so I have a few chores to do here, but it's a lovely day so will take the boys out for a walk. Against their will I'm sure, they want to stay in and play Lego Star Wars on the XBox all day. A bit more butt sitting and another coffee first I think.
Gigiversaries for today include the Essential Music Festival today in 1995, Gene in 2000, Super Furry Animals in 1996 and Placebo exactly a quarter of a century ago today. Looks like I am not now going to the KISS tribute in Dover tonight. I am free, but no-one else will go with me. In other gig news though, the Motley Crue / Def Leppard show we're going to in about five weeks (exactly five weeks today maybe?) is actually at Wembley Stadium, not Wembley Arena like I thought. It had a review in the Guardian, they did not like Motley Crue.
Guessing 1042 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 prob'ly comes to £1.33 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 but not the 'leccy).
5k: Five km, just over three miles in old money.
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