Weeknote 2025-W42

2025-10-20 14:00 weeknotes • 377 words
My weeknotes for the week 2025-10-13 to 2025-10-19.

As usual, I've done a terrible job of writing down what I did.

Monday

No recollection.

Tuesday

Yoga in the evening. Other than that no recollection.

Wednesday

I went to the music at the church at lunch as usual. No idea what I did in the evening.

Thursday

I went to Hobgoblin (the music shop by Tottenham Court Road) and experimented with different picks, as well as looking at the instruments. The mandolins there look so nice... some with scrolls, and that lovely yellow-orange colour, and also the citterns and the octave mandolas...

It's too tempting!

Friday

Saturday

I went to the mandolin meetup. It was a much smaller crowd than I thought, and they were all very friendly. The group is much better than I am, but I will learn as I go along, and it gives me a good excuse to practise.

In the evening, I went to a rave at the Cause with a friend. It was good fun, but I was quite tired. I was dancing pretty madly an hour or two in (being fanned by two girls beside me, which was honestly a godsend) but then got very tired and was a lot more relaxed and more at the back for the rest of it, and spend a good deal of time outside chatting to people.

I do like raves, though. It was good fun.

Sunday

Recovering... And, also, I went to the cafe with my mother in the morning, and then did very little in the afternoon. Towards the end of the evening I spend a good deal of time tidying and slightly rearranging my room.

The whole time, I've been thinking I'd really like to get an oud...

Stats

Screentime: 1d 4h, or 4h 03m per day. Sheesh!

I've taken a step to lower my screentime - Youtube is now blocked, so I have to download my videos in advance. I'm going to limit myself to say, 14 videos per week initially, and lower it with time.

Average steps walked per day: 89,630, equating to 44km or 2800 kcal. Decent enough.

Reading

I finished Fictions, and started to read The Beast in Man.

M05 study update

... No update.

Languages

Italian

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German

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Music

Mandolin

Well, I went to the mando workshop!

Health

Exercise

No swims and no gyms.

Weight and diet

No update.