What nerds do, on evenings and weekends, part 2…

- Week of 20 to 26 March.
- Limited photos this week. Phone stolen, see last week’s post. This week I have an old photo as the top header photo.
- Stating the obvious, but… smartphones are pretty cool. Just go a week without one.
Kinda weird not being able to take photos or make notes or listen to podcasts. I had to just sit through a lunch staring out the window – which is not bad, just different. Turns out two year old phone models are actually also pretty amazing devices. - Monday, school holiday, ice cream for brunch, de-cluttered my possessions a bit, swim with Mia, braai at Dirk’s house.
- Tuesday, Human Rights day / public holiday, brunch at Ya Ya with Mia – chats about her teacher’s ideas for how well she should be doing – and why, found Mia a new gum guard for hockey season, swim, Mia moulded her gum guard with some hot water – seems they can be trusted to do this at a certain age, Mia watched Batman Returns with some dark chocolate while I attempted to load a school hours friendly iOS configuration profile on her phone with some CBC Pilsner in hand – since the Ourpact app was a bit lame, sunset walk, we shared a pomegranate, backups, Mia watched Casablanca while I processed photos and updated my blog.
- Mia is now 161.5cm, 51.3kg, age 10, shoe size 7, 36.5″ hockey stick… she insisted her hockey stick was too small, so we had to go look it up. She grew 6cm and 4kg is the last 8 months.
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“Even Ned Flanders couldn’t resist the temptation of Vegas.” — Paul, about Heleen in Vegas.
- Don’t lose your self belief
- Wednesday, school run, gym, office, catch-up chat with Michael – back from holiday, fetched an iPhone6 from Dirk’s house – a girly white one.
- Thursday, up early – if I leave home at 4:50 I get to the Point gym at 5:30, gym, tinkered with an aquaponics doc while having a bulletproof coffee, swim, office, SIM swap, meeting at the Vodacom office in Century City – nice office space, office, rainy afternoon promenade walk, AfrikaBurn camp meetup at La Vie.
- Friday, up early, podcast drive to the Silo VA, 300 Vitality points, swim, office, Claremont Police station to try and find my phone – no luck, catch up chat with Warwick, fetched Jacques, stopped for biltong, Jacques got stuck in a gun shop, showed Jacques the BIA machine in Stellenbosch, braai at Dirk’s house, good fun – some diagram drawing and Chardonnay, time well spent.
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“Important things are interesting.”
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“Your ability to execute is a function of skills, capital and network.”
- Two ways things get done: 1) you love doing it and it happens anyway, 2) you are forced to.
- After looking at my gym visit stats, I ended up joining the Silo gym, I seem to go 20+ times per month, I was just planning to go for one free visit, but it’s really awesome. Yes, yes – I know, don’t be a connoisseur. They only have 4Mbps wifi there – so it’s not all amazing.
- I might be the most gamified health nerd. Watch. Shoes. Classic Collection Gym. Team rewards freebies. I just need to start flying more.
- Saturday, Headspace meditation, backups, photo processing and general tinkering, more Headspace, epic nap, swapped an off-site backup hard drive, swim, dinner with Paul at Tigers Milk – very nice salads, Telegram chats with Heleen who is somewhere along the Colorado river, a quick Akker visit, in bed early.
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“Dear Mia, I wanted to say again, super well done with the swimming and lifesaving this past season. I’m very proud of you. It took many hours of training, and I hope you feel it was all worth it. Well done with the medals… but, most of all, well done with the bravery to compete and swim in that freezing water. I little bit of discomfort never killed anybody. Lionhearted girl. X”
- I’ve been pondering some strategies for a digital afterlife, maybe because I made a big backup this week. Hmm. How could I get this blog to still be on the internet in about 200 years?
- Note to self: eat more oysters for brain health.
- Sunday, breakfast for lunch at Basic Bistro with some notes processing – cat typing and Chardonnay – official nerd business – processed about 50 notes, gym – mostly some interval cycling to get points while listening to a 99percentinvisible episode, more cat typing, a glass of wine with Paul and my neighbours and some blogging.
Have a fun week, crazy kids.