2024-12-29
tags: weeknotes
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It's the final week of the year! Well, there is still two days left, but they will get lumped into next week's (and, the first of next year's!) notes.
2024 is over, and it was incredibly quick. I gave a bit of a review of the year in my yearnotes, so I'll just give details of this final week here.
I was working Monday, and I don't think I did too much in the evening.
I worked during the day, and then in the evening we had our Christmas eve celebration round ours. My dad made a Balti pie as usual, and we had the family round, unwrapped our Secret Santa presents, etc. A good day all in all. After the celebration, there was naturally huge amounts of washing up to be done, which I did (I love to do washing up when there is huge amounts to be done and I can dedicate an hour or so to it, otherwise I hate the more mundane washing up a plate or a glass here and there).
My sister applied gel to the nails on my left hand to stop me biting - it's the 29th as I write and I haven't bitten that hand at all (on the other hand... it's less rosy) so I'll probably get her to do both soon and hopefully I can start properly growing my nails out!
We went initially round my Nan's for Christmas dinner (at about two) and then went to my grandma's afterwards until quite late. We went there in the car, but I walked back from hers home instead of coming home in the car, which was a pleasant little walk.
Also a bank holiday, I mainly got laundry sorted and prepared all my clothes for next week. I want to get into the routine of, on a Friday or Saturday now, preparing all my clothes for the next week, and washing all of my dirty clothes just to keep a bit more organised. At the moment it's a lot more ad hoc.
I had work. Really, I was working pretty slowly, as most people were on holiday and I was not really in the mood to work very hard.
In the evening, I wrote up my yearnotes.
We went to the cafe to study/read a bit as is custom now on a Saturday, and then went to the jazz centre and saw Derek Nash (sax), with Dominic Ashworth on guitar, George Double on drums and Geoff Gascoyne on bass. It was really good... they are proper professionals, and seemed almost to flow with the instrument and the music came out apart from that, if that makes sense. Truly incredible.
I finalised my finances for the month in the evening: I have tucked away a fair sum, though a bit less than I wanted (due to buying tickets and accomodation for the Devon trip in February) mostly in premium bonds at the moment though I will move it into a savings account soon to capitalise on the high interest at the moment.
I woke up very late, had some porridge, and studied music theory for the guitar
It'll all come with time, but it is very slow going of course. I still am very beginner in terms of music theory and actually understanding the musical side of it. After seeing the jazz on Saturday though, it makes me want to better understand the relationship between different notes, and what to play that sounds good together.
We went to my grandma's to visit some guests in the afternoon, and I have come back, done a very, very small amount of RHS study and watched somebody program a game in Zig. I want to, whenever I can at some point find time, do a clone of Bloons Tower Defence in Zig and SDL. I did make some updates to the website (to make the pages all a bit more in line with each other) and updated the kmd script to add in comments. Though the website is still ugly, it serves its purpose for now, and that's all I care about.
Have a good new year!