🥳 My daughter turned 21! 🎈🎉
🍕 Pizza and a catch-up with my sister; was going to watch a movie but yapped until nearly midnight instead!
♟️ Started learning to play Chess with a paid subscription to Chess.com and following the lessons. I've known the basics since I was a kid, but it's been a great refresher and I'm also learning plenty of new stuff. If you want to play with me, my username is: MRN44T
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.3 kg
🍺 Went to the pub for a pay-day pint after work with my new colleagues
🃏 Played in our monthly poker league on Saturday; only six people this time, finished second. Extended my lead by four points with four games to go.
🧯 Completed the Fire and Bomb Warden training at work. Scored 100% on the test, so I can now officially put out fires with the correct extinguisher and defuse bombs. Maybe… 💣️💥
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.75 kg
📝 A full week of technical training and lots of note-taking. Looking forward to getting properly hands-on with some things next week.
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.9 kg
🗼 Finally made it up to the top floor of the new office building to check out the views from the café…
💼 Started the new job! An entire week of induction training, but totally enjoying it all. Got a great group of people I'm working with; we've all clicked really quickly. Next week we move on to technical training.
🇮🇹 Made a pretty good Spaghetti alla Carbonara for two (authentic, except I couldn't get guanciale so had to make do with pancetta) on Friday evening 😋
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –1.1 kg
🐶 Found a fantastic dog walker for Ollie who will get him out while I'm at work; he'll be going with a small group of other Frenchies (four girls!) on lots of adventures; can't wait to see the photos and videos! ❤️
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.4 kg
🥱 Had a nice relaxing week pottering about doing jobs around the house and chilling out watching movies, before starting the new job next week 👔
☀️ Another warm weekend… 28–29°C
🥈 Celebrated my great-nephew’s 2nd birthday 🍰 🥳
🃏 Home poker league game, monthly tournament; 8 players, finished 3rd, moved to the top of the league!
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.6 kg
📚 Cambridge Latin Course I, Ch. 5 ✅
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –1.3 kg
🚘 Solved the car parking situation for the new job; it’s in the city centre so the only options are public car parks — found that a quarterly permit for the main shopping centre car park works out at £65 per mo. (~£2.95 per working day) with only an 8-min walk to the office, the best option by far 👍
🥱 Spent most of the week sorting out life admin and being ill with a bug 🤧
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –2.5 kg 👍
📚 Cambridge Latin Course I, Ch. 4 ✅
💰 Lost most of a day searching for better home and car insurance quotes; time well spent though, ended up saving a stack!
🎲 Monthly board game night at a friend’s house; played Terraforming Mars for the first time. Really liked it! Also, I won.
💼 Started doing prep for the new job
📚 Cambridge Latin Course I, Ch. 3 ✅
🍔 Tried a smash burger from a place nearby called Arnie’s — outrageously good! 😋 I’ll be back…
🃏 Won another tournament in our monthly poker league: 9 players, 1st prize was 6x the buy-in 💵 back-to-back wins move me up to 3rd at the halfway mark, only two points behind
📱 Broke my six-year-old iPhone, three months before I was going to upgrade to the latest model; have bought another old one off eBay to bridge the gap 😩
🎟️ Went to the cinema to see John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) …for the first time! 7/10
💼 Received (and accepted) a full-time job offer; start mid-July 🥳
📚 Started re-learning Latin—entirely for my own amusement—30 yrs after reading it at school; Cambridge Latin Course I, Chapters 1–2 ✅