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Deliberate productivity and the curse of overwhelm

So, intermittently I’m overwhelmed by the magnitude and number of jobs ahead of us. We still need to: And that’s before we get to: “oh…
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Future perfect

There are so many points in my life where there’ve been these big deciding things. Forks in the road. Places where things could have gone…
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Accidental Productivity, and Psion failures

Today I was unintentionally more productive than I intended to be. I’d not intended to be productive, well, maybe a little productive, but it got…

Another upgrade, and another fix, and endless errands

Yesterday was a solid day of progress on things. In fact, in general, there’s been a lot of progress on things. We’ve been working on…
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Upgrade and Fix

So today was a bit of a mission. I’d iiiintended to be back by lunchtime from a quick errand – namely, getting my glasses, grabbing…
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Horror Show: Resurrection

So, having replaced all the capacitors, today was the day for reassembly. In a hilarious misjudgement I thought I’d do it before lunch, and then…
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Horror Show: Restoration (plus bonus new toys)

So I spent today (literally nearly all of today, although I was kinda slow to get going) working on the A4. Having cleaned up the…
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back to blighty and back home

So I headed over to the UK for my mum’s 80th birthday. It’s the least complicated trip over to the UK that are done for…
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Project(ed) Progress

We’ve been making slow but steady progress on the many, many projects ongoing here at chez us. Having let the oiled pieces off-gas in the…
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Horror Show: Acid Bath

So I finally got myself together enough to tackle stripping down the Acorn A4 laptop. I’d been somewhat nervous about it because of all the…