2025-06-07
• weeknotes • 492 words
Weeknotes for the week 2025-05-26 to 2025-06-01, written a full week late.
I decided to, using crontab, place some restrictions on the time I can access my laptop. This is essentially to reduce my screentime. Mainly, the laptop is inaccessible (`poweroff` runs every minute, preventing access) from 21.00 on a weekend and 16.00 on a weekday, and every hour from 12.00 (meaning I cannot use it for more than an hour uninterrupted).
I also studied some IF2, made dinner, and spent a good time just resting and relaxing.
I went to a Bored of Dating Apps mixer event in Notting Hill. It was really good fun! I didn't meet anybody I would want to date, but still fun to just chat to people.
At lunch, I sat in the church and listened to recitals. There was Shostakovich, but they were very light, tacky tunes - completely unlike his symphonies!
I had my IF2 exam at lunch. Passed it, 81/100. So I've got my Cert CII now, which is good I guess. Would be pleasant if I could feel any accomplishment for the fact.
In the evening, I went to the British Academy. They had a talk on peat bogs, which was actually quite interesting! I talked with a man who wrote poetry (as they handed out a booklet with poems about peat) and a lady from York who works with Roberta Gilchrist, who gave the last talk I went to at the BA. Also some lovely pottery foxes.
I wrote my weeknotes for W21 (ever late), and decided to start having small bits of paper in my notebook that I can transfer from one to the next when I finish them. Not sure what else I did. Worked, I assume.
I made the access times for my laptop even more punitive, preventing access from 20.00 on a weekend, 15.00 on a weekday, and every half an hour until then it turns off.
I have found my phone screen time has significantly increased as a result of this, but it is easier to control my phone screentime than my laptop time. I'm more aware of it.
I also potted up the Dendrobium nobile and Begonia rex I have in my bedroom, watered, went shopping, and went to the cafe.
I was at the lottomento for most of the day. I received some seed potatoes from my new neighbour, and helped him out lifting the black plastic off his plot in return. I harvested some radish, too, and weeded the strawberry bed (eating most of the strawberries as I did it. After this, the glut is basically over)