Theophile Escargot @TheoEsc@mastodon.social

Urgh, just spent about an hour fixing 2 unit tests. Not sure if it's because they're fiddly asynchronous stuff or I'm just too tired. Think I'll call it a day as I think my brain has decided to.

Today: Buzzcut my hair. Wife took kid out. I hoovered house & cleaned bathroom, finally got power drill sorted and fitted smoke alarm, did 3 loads laundry, remade beds, went to supermarket. Trying to work now.

Yesterday: cycled 25km, ran 3km first thing. With kid: dropped DVD at library, shopped at farmers market, went to cafe. Visited family 2 train rides away, went to their school fair. Bathed kid, did some work in evening. Was so tired. Burned 4400 kcal tho.

I always had thick black hair that gave me 5 o'clock shadow even after close shaving. Now it's turning white I have these weird bald-looking face patches because the short white stubble is basically invisible.

Gravel. Bike skitters
Like foal. Change up for tarmac.
Already in top.
#haiku #cycling

Stumbling and Mumbling: Centrists against freedom
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2018/06/centrists-against-freedom.html

Amazon delivery notification now feels like coming under machine gun fire, as phone and watch both vibrate with app and email buzzes for each item in the parcel.

I didn't realise after-school club places were a scarce & precious resource, so by the time I applied they were mostly gone. We're on waiting lists for the first two, waiting to hear back from the last but not optimistic. Whole school system seem to work on assumption that every household has a 1950s sitcom housewife to cover holidays, after-school, inset days etc.

Getting bus again. Increasingly hard to find rental bikes. People not just vandalising & breaking the locks off, but blatantly stealing & chaining them up with own locks.

TIL that poet Roger McGough wrote, uncredited, some of the dialogue in the movie Yellow Submarine https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/06/yellow-submarine-film-50-years-the-beatles-sixties

APOD: 2018 June 25 - Hayabusa2 Approaches Asteroid Ryugu
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180625.html

Garmin reckons I burned 382kcal cleaning the bathroom an 715 doing the garden. Total so far today: 4420. Now have to get a bus to collect. Going to be another struggle to get dinner ready for bedtime.

Cycled 24km, ran 3km; did dumb-bells, core & foam rolling, burned 1360 kcal according to Garmin. Time for a shower, then make breakfast. #running #cycling #exercise

Dawn summer bike ride
Sparrows scatter from towpath
I wheel, one of them.
#haiku #cycling

Worked till 10:30PM last night. Kid got up just after 6AM. Got the ironing, hoovering & big food shop done at least. Hoping to watch some of the Germany/Sweden match before getting the kid to bed. So tired today I fell asleep in the library while kid was choosing books.

It works! Checking in and going to bed.

OK, the merged code compiles. Next: run the unit test suite and see what that does.

So. Friday it's my job to merge our branch code into the trunk: normally takes a couple of hours. Mid-morning I find out they can't deploy for testing from the branch: I tell them to wait till Monday & do it from trunk. Then PC problems take me out for a couple of hours. Now I'm getting unusually nasty merge issues. So that's why I have to do stuff when I'd like to have finished. #coderlife

Dreading the weekend again. Have to do garden which means a day of agony from allergies. Also need to do work-work before a deployment on Monday. Will be non-stop grinding mental & physical labour again. Wish I had a time warp to next week.