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February's Journal
April's Journal
30/03/2022
[17:20] Time again for my now-monthly journal update. I guess this is how it
is now, with only one update per month. Let me fill you in on what's gone on...
In very late January Rachel and I had an actual date night with a trip to the
local arts cinema, and then dinner at a burger restaurant. That was pretty
great. Later on that week Rachel's work arranged to have a Ukraine briefing
from a retired army officer, which was really, really interesting. Nothing to
do with her work, but as a friend of her charity he was happy to give some
thoughts on the developing situation, and even respond to mediated questions.
After that, over the first March weekend the two of us headed to Harrogate to
attend a day-long course on how to plant vegetables at home. We also combined
it with a stay at the Hotel du Vin there, and even got in some runs on some
very soggy ground. We headed back to my place in time for me to run a fairly
measured half marathon in exactly the time I was aiming for (nothing too fast,
more a test of maintaining pace for the marathon this coming weekend) without
feeling too blown away. I can't tell you whether I'd be able to hold that pace
for another 13.1 miles, but I guess we'll see what I do on Sunday! Since then
Rachel's been bouncing between Croydon (and working in her office), up north in
her new home, and here with me. I've spent a bit of time with her in each
location too, as well as running a marathon distance here around the outskirts
of the city for some "time on legs".
Work-wise I've been having a mix of very busy and very not-busy days. Some
days I've managed to fit in time to do some VMWare training (NSX-T, VCF, etc.)
and other days its been wall to wall work. I did managed to upgrade our Red
Hat Satellite server to 6.10.3, but then had a few support calls open to deal
with all the new errors and warnings that now appear in the logs. 99% of them
apparently I should just ignore, which really doesn't sit well with my OCD for
tidiness.
Otherwise I've had someone come to scarify and deal with the lawn today, the
old village pump next door has been completely revealed to the world and
encircled by a quite ugly fence. I hope they put up some greenery, because as
pretty as the (broken) pump is, the area is now rather bare and spartan. I've
had my "go faster" haircut for this Sunday's Manchester Marathon (heading up to
see my parents on Friday afternoon with Rachel), done plenty of early morning
patching, and am enjoying the few days off of running that mark the week of
tapering.
Upcoming after the marathon will be some time off from running, but not from
early morning patching and generally working hard. A work lunch jolly (a first
for about four years for me), Rachel running a 50 mile race, my birthday, a
work meetup (separate to the jolly), and then a trip down to Cornwall over
Easter, which should be really lovely as neither of us will need to run for
anything other than 100% fun. No training, no targets to meet, no distance to
cover, and no time to need to be on our feet for. Wonderful.
I imagine I'll post again some time in the last week of April. Unless
something else comes up.