By Adam Englebright in Weeknotes — Nov 5, 2023

Weeknotes 1594

bad week!

Weeknotes

Monday started off OK—got some work done, had lunch with a friend, sat down to an afternoon of boring admin, then I got a phone call from CM to say she'd been in a car crash! So I headed off to go and get her and we went to hospital and that sort of dictated the rest of the week.
Thankfully no-one was permanently injured, but she's got a few cracked ribs and a broken finger and is quite rattled, and I've had to work from home all week because car crashes mess you up in a way that means you can't really do all that much.
Several people have popped by over the course of the week which is really sweet. Geeta brought round Gus the chihuahua, who was given a tiny cable-knit jumper to match my cable-knit jumper.

On Wednesday when we were meant to be going to bonfire night (the display we were meant to go to was, for the second year in a row, cancelled due to high winds) a bunch of friends came round and we waved sparklers around on the balcony. The watering can we were using to quench them looked a bit like a hedgehog, so the next day we put googly eyes on it. In retrospect I think we were going a bit stir-crazy.

Thankfully CM seems to be feeling a bit better today so I'll be back to routine a bit more next week. Something that occurred to me is that I actually work really well in the space between waking up and "getting up", so I might try and harness that to 'work from bed' and get a bit more done in the space between wake-up and standup at 10.

We've been having a lot of CM's current favourite, truffled almond alfredo with really garlicky broccoli. It doesn't keep very well in the fridge but fortunately it's really quick (~15 mins once you've done it a few times) to cook, which means you have to be realllllly tired to give up and order takeaway instead.

Perhaps as a comfort thing I've been catching up on comics. Actually quite enjoyed the Sins of Sinister X-Men thing.

A friend is visiting this week and last night we took the opportunity to introduce them to House of Cards (UK), definitely my most comfort-watched bit of TV—crashingly unsubtle, but so, so good.

Keep it real. Over and out.