I’m happy with my tiny town garden. When I came here, the previous renter had left it in a poor state. I think it’s quite an improvement. They used it as a rubbish dump, for burying larger items of trash. I dug up 240 liters or so, replaced it with garden soil. 🏠🌸

Writing a print file extension in Pythonista 3 seemed so easy… I had to learn a few new things, so, in the end, it’s all good. 👨‍💻

🏠 Someone had painted the wooden door frame of my bathroom with wall paint 🤪 So it needs two layers of paint primer. I couldn’t sand off the wall paint, since I don’t know how remove the door, and, more importantly, how to properly put it back into the frame.

Today’s 🏃🚶🏼🏃 (900 m : 100 m) went surprisingly easy. Also special was that at some point there was no traffic in sight, while around 4 pm it’s usually pretty busy with commuting cars. Didn’t last long, though.

Went shopping for 🏠 improvement. Some paint and primer, degreaser, lacquer roller and brush, tape, system to catch the mail from mashing cat teeth. Not much, still 160 euros 😣

I thought my body deserved an interval training for my 🏃 It’s an acquired taste, I believe. I ran 200 m pretty hard, eased down 200 m, and did that five times. I needed 4:56 min for that fast-paced kilometer.

Someone in my hometown using a Mac (or a hacked Mac, overtaken by a criminal elsewhere), guessed my Google password, and the next day got into my iCloud account. I changed my passwords and turned on two step verification. I hope this is enough.

I wonder if 📚 lovers are prepared to goes as far as Ray Bradburry’s Fahrenheit 451, in which book lovers can recite their favorite book. Obviously, George Orwell’s 1984 would countermand this, by Newspeak, removing the words from those books out of the language’s vocabulary.

My cats have been quite behaved today, despite I had to catch them earlier than usual, because renovation workers needed access to my house. Maahir was easy enough, but Aziz is always suspicious when things go out of the ordinary. I had to mix 🐱 diplomacy and human determination.

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 📚 👨‍💻