12 june 2024
Books
Finished reading Vengeance in Death, by J.D. Robb, which is In Death #6.
Essentially what I expect from an Eve Dallas book - reasonable procedural,
reasonably believable near-future setting. Somewhat copaganda, and actually
possibly too much steamy scenes for what I wanted this time around (I'll freely
admit it was part of the original appeal of this series, but idk, I wasn't in
the mood for that this time around), and probably a bit too gore/graphic for
my liking too. Still, it felt comfortable to be back around Eve and Roarke and
their set of secondary characters (I like McNab!)
Started reading Humble Pi, by Matt Parker.
Today we leave for Denmark! Looking forward to discovering a new place. And
also Legoland.
Travel log
- Arrived in Copenhagen around noon after a quiet flight (landing felt a bit
wobbly but wheel touchdown was incredibly smooth)
- Got the car, did a first stop in a mall for a/ lunch (decent burgers) b/
water bottle and chocolate shopping. Felt a bit stupid at automated
checkout, which did not work how we are used to (had to get someone patiently
explain stuff to us)
- First "real" stop around Storebæltsbroen, because nice bridge. I also
appreciated feeling a nice steady wind - I had missed that! Also visited
the small ice boat museum that was there.
- Arrived in Middelfart at the end of the afternoon. The hotel looks nice and
quiet; the person at the reception was very friendly.
- Went for a short walk around the hotel, saw mostly the sea channel (and all
the sails on it) and the port from afar, as well as a lot of brick houses
and buildings.
- Had dinner at https://faenoesund.dk/, which was delightful
- the first course really shone, hake with cauliflower and buttery herb
sauce, it was wonderful
- main course was veal with bordelaise sauce and veggies, maybe more
classic, but a flawless execution
- dessert was strawberry sorbet and white chocolate cream, also fantastic
- and all of that at a table with a direct view to the window over the sea
- Came back to the hotel to plan tomorrow and relax, and now it's bed time!
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11 june 2024
Went running this morning, and it actually went well! I did my 25 minutes (and
2.5 km during that time). The time between minute 19 and minute 23 was utterly
miserable, but it was significantly better after that, which does make me
hopeful I can actually manage the 28 minutes that's suppose to happen next in
my c25k program. Well, that will happen... after I'm back from holidays,
probably.
Also, in today's "maybe if I made things not as hard for myself": today I
finally realized that having my running belt on my hips and not my waist is
making things better to, like, breathe. I am not a smart person. But oh well,
realizing it now is better than realizing it later.
A bit more hope politics-wise, as apparently the left parties managed to reach
an agreement to have a single candidate per district, which hopefully will
focus things in a good way. I'm definitely in favor in multipartisan (as opposed
to bipartisan) systems, but the fact that the 6 (!) left parties found an
agreement may be a sign that this has gone a bit too far.
I realized today how bad yesterday actually was. But hey, today is
significantly better, AND while I was not in a state to do anything about it or
even to believe it, I did have a tiny bit of consciousness about my state and
the fact that I was actually not functional. That's huge progress, and deserves
to be celebrated.
Luggage ready, alarm-clock set: IT'S HOLIDAY TIME!
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10 june 2024
Yipeeee, I arranged transportation and accomodation to go to Wikimania in
August! Really looking forward to it. Well, a bit anxious and all of that
as well (I may have chosen the hotel for the ease of retreat if needed,
and was very relieved to see there's a "quiet room" planned at the location),
but really looking forward to it.
Work was frustrating today, but it really feels like a "me" thing rather than a
"work" thing per se. I don't think I was actually in a reasonable state to work
today, ... and it showed, I worked (and had meetings) through tears for most of
the afternoon, that sucked.
At least this evening I did most of the packing for the holidays. Yay! Oh, and
I fixed a trivial bug on our Mastodon client.
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09 june 2024
Went to the gym this morning, and it went very well. I'm very happy I hired
a personal trainer - already the first session was worth the monies. Instead
of doing barbell today, I lifted dumb bells, for both safety/confidence reasons
and to work on symmetry and balance. And, weight-wise, I didn't lift "a lot",
but the difference in form (as well as actually handling the dumb bells at the
beginning and end of the set!) made it so that I was TIRED at the end of the
session. But, like, good tired.
Grmbl, I was hoping that one of the two pairs of jeans I had ordered on Zalando
would fit, but no no they don't. Which is annoying, because my current amount
of wearable pairs of jeans is distractingly low (I think I'm down to 2, and one
of them is borderline.)
Also I'm voting for the European Parliament elections today, and it's kind of
funny because I'm technically voting for two countries today (since we also
have the quarterly Swiss votations today). I mailed my Swiss ballot two weeks
ago, but still: today I'm voting with two citizenships :D
Weeeeeeeell fuck. European elections in France gave a HUGE score to far right
parties, the President dissolved the National Assembly this evening, we're
voting in 3 weeks, and however I add numbers, I am exceedingly pessimistic. I
really, really hope I'm wrong. Very depressing, incredibly scary, and I'm
feeling a nice (not) mix of anxious and dejected. Wunderbar.
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08 june 2024
Yesterday's "game" night went well, there was some conversations about
meteorology and electronic piano signal acquisition debugging (and a few rants
about various stuff). All in all, good, but despite the lack of alcohol anxiety
still ran high. Oh well, I would have liked the issue to be "that" simple :(
also yesterday I did a larger foray on town's IRC, and I started publishing
moar stuff from my ~ homepage and linking stuff. yay!
Cool stuff read this morning:
did manage to hit my arm on an aisle shelf at the supermarket, ow, and this is
going to bruise, probably >_<
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THERE, ~ sweet ~, http://tilde.town/~balise has what I wanted to put on it for
now. yay!
Who has two thumbs and set up an SSH client on her phone and is currently
updating feels with, well, her two thumbs? This balise!
also fuck anxiety.
This season of Doctor Who is really fun. Episode 6, "Rogue", was brilliant
on its own accord, AND marvelous if you watch Bridgerton - it had the exact
right amount of meta commentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it - and Gatwa is an
absolute gem of a Doctor. Added points for "I'm Bond, Molecular Bond".
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