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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T08:38:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible.\n\n## Highlights of the month:\n\n  * Published a link to Photographs on the main site\n  * Seedlings still having a hard time of it, but other stuff on the terrace flourishing\n  * Sporadic meals outdoors\n  * Good bike rides\n  * Visit to the firefighters’ museum\n  * Sinners in the cinema at midday\n  * 300 issues of Eat This Newsletter\n  * Started on a Melt the ICE hat with yarn selected by The Squeeze\n  * A few days away as designated driver for The Squeeze\n  * Watering system working again\n  * Trains to and from Düsseldorf for IWC\n  * Visit with an old chum not seen in years\n  * Poor lecture on a fascinating topic; floods on the Tiber.\n\n\n\n### Activities\n\n#### April:\n\n  * Walking with sticks: 1\n  * Reading: 12\n  * Steps (avge): 8356\n  * Podcasts: 14 (all of them logged)\n  * In bed/asleep 7:52/7:43\n  * Cycled: 3\n  * Weight (avge): 90.8\n  * Naps: 14\n\n\n\n#### March:\n\n  * Walking with sticks: 2\n  * Reading: 24\n  * Steps (avge): 8383\n  * Podcasts: 14 (all of them logged)\n  * In bed/asleep 8:11/8:02\n  * Cycled: 2\n  * Weight (avge): 90.3\n  * Naps: 16\n\n\n\nDaylight savings → less time in bed\n\n### Stuff Done\n\nIWC DUS was a lot of fun, seeing old friends and meeting new ones. I didn’t achieve much on Create Day, unless you count learning how much more I have to learn to do the thing I wanted to do: style webmentions. Now that I know, it is equal top of my todo list, but I have not actually made a start, which may be contributing to a growing sense that things are out of control.\n\n#### Hours logged per month\n\nSee Niggles; to be updated when I am back at the desktop machine.\n\nPrevious years are still on an archive page.\n\n### Goals\n\nFive posts isn’t too shabby.\n\n### Niggles\n\n**About that out of control feeling:** This often happens when I have been away from home too much, twice this month. Things back up while I am away, partly because I am busy with other stuff and partly because I am not as happy doing things on the laptop as I am on the desktop machine. At IWC I made a list of tasks I needed to finish to make the laptop more of a mirror in its capabilities. I did some of them, but that has to continue, which will require more learning. Still, that’s what I live for.\n\nOne example, in the spirit of thinking out loud. I have a few Python scripts that I rely on to do some tedious analysis, like make the graphs of how I spend my time. I very seldom need to run them from the laptop, and when I do, often the underlying data are not here. I can imagine a few solutions, with varying levels of complexity and fragility. I could share the entire Python folder using Syncthing. _Inefficient_. I could remind myself to copy the files from one machine to the other before any trip. _Fragile_. Or I could put the Python stuff on my Raspberry Pi and access it via Raspberry Pi Connect or Tailscale. _How?_ But I can’t decide where to put my initial efforts. I suspect doing it on the Pi would have the biggest potential future payoff, but I don’t know, and that makes it hard for me to begin.\n\n### Final remarks\n\nAll is actually very good, and I am currently enjoying sunshine and stout in County Limerick, so, yes!\n\n* * *\n\n## Here’s the table\n\nClick the triangle to see or hide the table Month | Total | Daily | Admin % | ETP % | Writing % | Other %\n---|---|---|---|---|---|---\n03 | 103.3 | 4.75 | 58 | 29 | 13 | 0\n02 | 112.3 | 4.9 | 57 | 28 | 14 | 1\n2026-01 | 54.25 | 4.2 | 56 | 9 | 35 | 0",
  "title": "Monthly report: April 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-07T08:38:00.000Z"
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