The roof workers are done for today. They left a mess from removing the cantilever window. They’ll clean up as soon as they’re done, which can be in a few days. So I cleaned it up a bit, so my cats won’t hurt themselves on sharp wood nor rusty nails, or roll in the dirt. 🏠

Renovation 🏠 Tiles on back roof removed, including the cantilever window. It’s a mess inside, so it’s good the workers protected my carpet with plastic canvas.

🏃 with 23℃ in the shade was a challenge, so I did, again, 🏃🚶🏼🏃 9 km (900 m : 100 m). It was very traffic-heavy with commuters, who either aren’t allowed, can’t, or don’t want to work from home. Luckily, where I crossed the road motorists must let non-motorists go first.

Day one of my home 🏠 improvement project started with a visit per Dutch city bike 🚲 to a local home improvement store, called Praxis. I only bought what I needed, and still I spent more 💰 than on weekly grocery shopping for one person.

PS more and even more on my other blog.

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and nice to be outside, though it was more crowded than usual (10 people instead of 1).

Ah well, I did an easy 🏃 🚶🏼 🏃 of 9 km (900 m:100 m), followed by 1 km fast.

For more details, see my Garmin Connect page.

Currently reading: Programming the 65816: Including the 6502, 65C02, and 65802 by David Eyes 📚 👨‍💻

Question to the community…

A responsible and accountable person doesn’t measure their wealth in Snickers bars. So what budgeting solutions do you recommend for someone who has no clue about (nor experience with) double-entry bookkeeping? 🏠

I made a very basic and working 1-pass cross-assembler in Pythonista. It was more of a proof of concept, to help me understand the book I’m reading (Assemblers and Loaders) 👨‍💻

PS Notice it’s still big-endian, while it should be little-endian. 😬

Currently reading: On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser 📚

Today’s 🏃 was easy run-walk-run. It was raining slightly, but still warm, which made the heat worse.

For those interested, I ran 8,1 km in 55:46 min (6:53 min/km). Considering the circumstances, not bad. For more deets, see my Garmin page.

Currently reading: Assemblers and Loaders (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers & Their Applications) by David Salomon 📚 👨‍💻

I wondered about how to build (in Python) a linked list of tagged items, and how to print its tagged items. Each item has three containers: a link to the next same-tagged item (-1 if it’s the last item with that tag), a tag and a value. Here’s my solution. 👨‍💻

Today’s 🏃 was an easy walk-run-walk (800 m 🏃 200 m🚶🏼) of 9 km. Ran 7.2 km in 48:20 min (6:43 min/km), for those wanting deets.

Learning about iOS’s sandbox limitations. Pythonista has full access to its own private folders (on device and/or iCloud). You can edit external files, even run Python scripts, but iOS gives scripts no access to files outside mentioned private folders, unless files are shared to it. 👨‍💻

To bring variety in my 🏃 training, today I did an interval training. It was hot, 28℃ (82℉) in the shade, me in the sun. Still, well-hydrated, it was doable.

In case anyone wants to know, 5 times 200 m, with my heart rate above my LT heart rate, or 5:15 min/km on average.

Now it’s two weeks after my first 💉 I thought it safe enough to do some masked shopping (no not that kind 🔫 🤡 of shopping) in my local town. On my way back I walked through a park, back home to my two feline buddies, still locked up in a cage.

I had to make a peace offering when locking away my 🐱 darlings for their safety (renovation going on). Unfortunately, one of them can’t have it, since he’s allergic to regular cat food. Luckily, he’s up for cuddling and petting instead.

I guess I need superior knowledge, not reinvent the wheel. For creating a proper assembler, I need to know how others build those, and better non-fiction writing is a good thing too, since I’ll be communicating to others (including my future self) via code and comments. 👨‍💻

I find it empowering that one can build somehing useful inside a computer. What I do, I don’t think qualifies as programming, but is more like scripting, using macros, which is useful in its own way, though not as generic as an app on a phone or on the web. Doesn’t need to be. 👨‍💻

Wow, such a slow 🏃 At times my imaginary self could’ve pass me by power walking. Ah well, another one for the books, as they say, don’t they?

P.S. I found out why I was so slow, overreach, Runalyze told me so. A rest day was in order, as well as re-evaluating my training “plan”.