My “overloading” experiment is over now it’s Friday, and the results are interesting, if not particularly clear-cut. Every day this week I’d intended to: write some FOSS code do 20 minutes practise each of French and (“Mandarin”) Chinese stick 100% to the “Four Hour …

As I was making my new week’s resolutions last night, I decided to try setting myself up for failure: making a list of non-trivial tasks and setting myself the goal of doing them every single day this week. It’s overloading, with the view that I won’t have time to think (and question, and worry, and …

It has, on balance, been a rather relaxing weekend. Of course, after yesterday’s power-outage inspired painting session, we got up early(ish) on Saturday with a list of things to do: finish the walls, cook a roast and clean up the work-site in time for dinner with Ken and Mary. A busy, tiring day …

Circa 3pm We’ve just had a heavy downpour of rain and, likely related, our power has gone out. No electricity means no Internet, which means no work — good time to do some painting (while there is still enough daylight) and write a blog-post now I’ve got my blog client working again. We pour out the …

A cold morning this morning, the coldest we’ve had since we moved into our little mountain retreat: the rain woke us, hammering on the tin-roof with unrelenting percusive insistence, even before the Lucy-pup nosed under the covers to tell us, yes, she would like to go out for a pee now please. Cold …

Okay, the new theme is a work in progress. Bear with me.