Weeknote 2025-W34

Monday

My screentime is still high, because I read a lot of blogs...

Tuesday

Work was decent - the train timetable has changed, interestingly. The train is now almost totally empty, since it doesn't stop as often now.

I had a nice curry for lunch - chickpea, ginger and turmeric, with quinoa.

In the evening, I went for a swim.

Wednesday

I had a similar curry to Tuesday, but made it with leek instead of onion this time. It was... even better I think, but I am a bit fan of leek.

In the evening, I saw a friend of mine to discuss plans for a holiday to Cardiff. I had... another curry there, so some 1700 of my 2300 calories for the day came from curry.

Thursday

I didn't really do much in the evening after work; I had planned to practise mandolin, and to go to the allotment, but neither happened and I just relaxed and made my dinner instead.

I really struggled to sleep, because... I don't know why. There were midges, but even after I killed them, my body was still itching all over, but in a slightly different way. Unpleasant, and made sleep difficult.

Friday

Because of my lack of sleep, I didn't go for the swim as I had wanted in the morning.

In the evening, I saw my friend online, for the first time in a good few weeks...

Saturday

I went for a swim in the morning, then to the cafe (a tradition I will start up again, I suppose), then went to the violin lesson (we covered the first finger, and also the second finger (F# on the D string). At the cafe I began reading The Gift, a Nabokov novel (I really enjoy Nabokov's writing).

After violin, we went to the allotment, watered, and grabbed the chairs from my shed there to bring to my grandma's for her do tomorrow.

Sunday

Swim, and we also had my grandma's do, where they made pizzas that were very nice.

Odds and ends

• I made a new spreadsheet for myself to maintain, weeklyweights.ods. I deliberated between .csv, .sc, and finally settled on .ods format. It is for tracking my calories and protein, with a few useful calculations in there as well.
• I found out that the oranges they sell in Sainsbury's are treated with Imazalil and the like. It... irks me a fair bit, and I probably want to switch to organic if I can. Reuters has an article (side note: that URL is horrid.) where they have a rather pyrrhic victory that it doesn't cause leukocytosis, and it's only a suspected carcinogen and probable endocrine disruptor that causes respiratory problems and muscular coordination issues. Well, sounds downright lovely then!
• I haven't been maintaining the blog much, apart from weeknotes. That's fine, and life is life.
• I am resuming the gym membership because I want to swim a lot more, and probably also go to the gym on a fairly minimalistic basis to lose weight without losing too much muscle. I don't know exactly how I'll balance it alongside having to study for work (M05), work itself, mandolin, violin, cooking, rest, etc. but I guess I'll see.