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It's my half day at work, half day of hobby gamedev, so I'm excited to get stuck into that. Been learning how to art, which is no simple feat for a programming nerd like myself, but games need both things so here we are!

Tomorrow my other half is off to some family thing, so I get the house to myself. That usually means sitting in blissful silence with no TV or anything, eating macaroni cheese. But occasionally it means a one-woman early 2000s rock dance party so we'll just have to see which way tomorrow goes 😆

The same as every weekend: drive the children to classes and activities...

My company guarantees one, three-day weekend a month and today is our day off! Gonna play some Zelda, maybe putter around on a personal project.

It's honestly a great system for morale. Highly recommend. Most studies show that productivity goes up when you move to a four-day work week, and this is a great way to dip a toe in that water.

My first park run tomorrow! Wish me luck!

I am still in a ridiculous amount of pain, but it doesn't seem like such a big deal now, as I plan to spend the next few days laying in the shade watching the Ashes.

Pay day, and 90% is gone before 11am.

Looking forward to Formula one this weekend, It's going to be strange but hopefully just as good in the community on Lemmy rather than the other place

Going out tonight to have a nice steak at a new Steakhouse in town. Then stroll down the hill to see some live music be played in the venue I got married in.

No child to look after tonight so a nice full night sleep 🤨

Tomorrow hosting two friends and going to make a Beef Wellington for the first time, excited to do that.

Building a garage so will be laying blocks. Takes bloody ages!

I know it's sunny but I'm going to be watching the new series of Black Mirror!

A totally stacked day at work, then a haircut, now catching up on Black Mirror before starting on the new season.

Since it’s going to be a few degrees cooler I might be able to leave the house without instant regret. Maybe a picnic is on the cards.

Recuperating from 2 days of masquerading as an extrovert with work colleagues in London by sitting alone in my home office and talking to noone. Might talk to my wife occasionally. Maybe the cats too, but they don't talk back.

We live in Edinburgh, where the schools finish at lunchtime, so I have about 3.5 hours of freedom.

And this weekend we're going through to the Play Expo retro games thingy in Glasgow tomorrow! Last one was in 2019, so looking forward to that.

Gotta drop the car off for a service (during rush hour) and pick it up later this afternoon (during rush hour).

#FML

I'm hoping to finally get on top of my housework and chores this weekend - the weather has been insufferable all week and I haven't had the motivation to do anything in the house and things are piling up.

Dog needs a bath, so that's Saturday. Boy, do I live an exciting life.

Might try to go swimming. The fiver fest is in town too, so I might do a bunch of random drinking and shopping.

I really need to finally nail down my Fringe plans, too. Can't decide where to stay or how to get there. If not for the 5 year old we'd train and hostel it.

The Ashes.

The usual climbing outdoors but I'm excited to go out for a meal in town with my sister and her partner. Expensive but it always makes me feel good when people come to something I've planned.

Hoping the pollen count goes down a touch.

I'm going to the north from London on the train, which confirms what I already know about how ridiculously expensive trains are. It's barely cheaper for two of us to get the train (with a Railcard) than it is to hire a car for the weekend, and no doubt there will be delays.

Looking forward to the slightly cooler weather forecast up there this weekend though!

bitten off more than i can chew walking this afternoon. it's still half an hour back to my car where my water bottle is and i think I've stopped sweating. be smarter than me and carry water!

Finally having a barbecue. So of course the forecast has changed to rain.

Probably venture out for a wander along the canal, although sadly a load of fish have died due to low oxygen in the water so that's really upsetting to see. Sunday morning will be F1 quali highlights for the other half, good cross stitch time for me. Got stuff in for DIY McMuffins too.

Doing a meetup tomorrow morning, one of these detective around town things. In the evening, it's my brother in law's birthday so heading down there for jelly and ice cream.

Working nightshift for 6 more nights, going to miss the nice weather this weekend. Not looking forward to trying to sleep during the day with the heat but hey ho, at least I get a week off when I'm done.

Fighting off hay fever, my usual remedies are letting me down and it's a snotty, sneezy, headachey paradise over here

Off to Arcade Club this weekend with some friends! It's going to be like an oven in there...

I found a new game called thronefall. it's not entirely out yet, but the demo is up. 10/10 will be playing more this weekend.