notes
printed from blueskywriting
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Stephanie talked me into signing up for the Bellahouston Park 10K, on the 22nd of August, right as I finish Couch to 5K. Her reasoning: I won’t run it well, but that’s exactly why it’s useful. A number now, however rough, is something to measure everything else against by the time I stand on the Paisley 10K start line next summer.
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I have spent three years arguing that automation taking work away from us is a reason to want it rather than a reason to fear it. I still think that. But almost every objection worth answering comes from the left, and working through them one at a time has landed me somewhere more specific than enthusiasm: the technology is not the question, ownership and permission are. Including the part…
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I wasn’t there to race anyone. I was just curious whether the training was actually going anywhere. Turns out it is.
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A throwaway line in Pulp Fiction about finding your food waiting for you when you get back from the bathroom. On why noticing small good things is a skill rather than a mood, and why it is not the same thing as being told to count your blessings.
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Health and safety reps have had legal standing since 1977. Equality reps get theirs this October. Green reps have nothing, and a net zero target with no plan behind it is just a press release.
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A bowl of plant based udon at Wagamama in Silverburn, a note on why an RSS feed beats an algorithm, and how Stephanie’s chillies ended up in my broth.
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I spent a few evenings adding excerpts to years-old posts and accidentally read my own life back in fast-forward. On running threads, hospital wards, a screaming modem, and why the archive, not the audience, is the best reason to keep a blog.
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I’m 46 and just getting back into running. Here’s my one-year plan to go from Couch to 5K to running the Paisley 10K in under 50 minutes.
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After an MS diagnosis and one too many “I’ll start tomorrow”s, I got moving. Calorie counting, Couch to 5K, and logging it all on my own terms.
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I got tired of Google treating my search history like a diary it owned. So I built my own private search engine. Here is how, and why you might want to do the same.