- I took C to his piano lesson for the first time at a local piano teacher’s home. He’s really progressing well. He only started in September, but is fast catching up with his father’s playing abilities, especially with his left hand. My chords-only organ-playing experience means I struggle to fluently read music in bass clef.
- (This reminds me of the day as a teenager when my mother asked my girlfriend if I had shown her my organ yet 😳)
- C dressed as a Pharaoh for Ancient Egypt day at school, with authentic-looking eye-liner. He’s been learning grizzly mummification facts.
- I used to play my older son at FIFA/FC on the Switch, but he hated losing to me (or me letting him win). He has been practising, and this week asked to play me again. I lost 1-3 and 1-2, to his ungracious delight.
- Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man was a decent full-stop on the story, but it felt a bit flat without the full cast from the TV series.
- We’re three hours into The Pitt, however, and it is phenomenal. So much happens that you (rightly) can’t dual-screen it.
- It’s now the Easter Holidays for the next two weeks. While I’m at home/office working, L is taking the boys to her parents’ in Wiltshire for a few days.
- I would normally buy curry and beer for the nights I’m eating alone, but I’m trying to be healthier, so instead I’ve stocked up on low-fat chicken tikka and non-alcoholic beers. I still plan to watch a few sci-fi films of course.
- Claude is my new executive assistant. I’ve given it read-only access to my calendar and I feed it meeting transcripts to help build a model of my job though its folder of Markdown files. It’s becoming genuinely useful the more it learns. Next on the list is experimenting with opening its folder in Obsidian so we can collaborate on daily notes.
- I’ve been watching the coverage of the ATmosphereConf with a degree of jealousy. There’s a real energy to the atproto community, with an explosion of projects and new ideas being shared. I’m hacking away at a few of my own which I hope to write about soon.
