Tank crisis No 3,653

And more issues with the fish tank.of course it's the one with the goldfish in it. Lost three of the little catfish, last two not sure of. Had to do pretty much a full water replacement to get rid of the bad water.

Lightning!

Early this morning we had a lightning strike pretty close to our place. I happened to be awake at the time (storm in progress), and the flash of light and wall of sound arrived pretty much at the same time.

Two air con units dead, so they'll need to get repaired or replaced. Luckily no damage to the internals or the electrics.

Jan 2020

First post for the year, and the decade.

Wow, didn't really think I'd be around this long. I remember watching episodes of Beyond 2000 on tv back in the late 80's / early 90's, talking about "the paperless office" and I remember one bit where they were really amazed at comparing a high-end video camera with the studio cameras and how the quality was "nearly the same".

Now almost everyone has a HD video and still camera in their pocket, along with a personal computer and fingertip access to almost the sum total of all human knowledge.

Starting the year (actually, continuing from the end of last year) by working on improving my push-ups. Started doing sets of 5 up to 40 per day at the end of November, today I've done sets of 15 up to 60 and it isn't 10:30am yet. Working towards doing 100 per day before work starts again.

No real progress on the creative front, but I did get reminded of my old Badly Drawn Cinema project. I only made two of those...

NYE 2019

Last post for the year, and for the decade.

Bad dreams

Not really a nightmare as such, just a dream that was a bit unpleasant.

At the airport, trying to get on a flight and every little thing that could cause a delay, caused a delay. Ended up doing bulk running chasing the plane on the taxiway.

Only just woke up and I feel utterly exhausted, like I'd just finished a marathon.

New PB on deadlift

We've shifted focus a bit from pure cardio to more strength-based training. As a result, we do more "pick up something heavy, then try and pick up something heavier" sessions.

I'm pretty tall, but I've never had a lot of upper body strength. Part of the training regieme involves deadlifts, which I never did much of.

On Friday, I managed three sets of 10 reps at 60kg (olympic bar plus two 20kg plates). I could probably do more as a single lift, but the objective is to do sets of ten, which makes sense to me.

Never mind that one of the skinny females then used that combination as her starting weight! I'll still take my new pb, and keep working on improving it (hopefully without damaging my knees... )

Gone analogue!

For that retro feel!

My previous watch was on the way out. The watch itself was fine, but the band had previously perished and the replacement band that I jury rigged to put in there was a cheapy which was on the way out again.

Since it wasn't worth spending money on buying another band, and the sockets where the band mounts were getting damaged I figured it was time to get a new watch.

I was looking at buying another cheapy from a local store or online when my wife surprised me with a watch. It has an analogue face instead of digital. Digital is my preferance (probably just me being lazy) so using analogue is a touch more effort - but got a new watch!