Bad Mike, no biscuit.

I've been very, very poor at keeping this updated. More details for the below will come along in the next couple of days (I hope!) but this is a quick state of the blog, a couple of days past one year into the experiment.

1. Training and running the 5k is still going ahead (tasks 20, 44 and 45). That's happening on Sunday 21st at 9:30, starting at Victoria Gardens in Leeds - cheerleaders welcome, as is anybody who would like to sponsor me.

2. I've not been visiting different swimming pools (task 38), but I have been consistently going to the same one twice a week before work. As this task was primarily an exercise one I think I'm doing quite well here.

3. I discovered that Open Street Map doesn't have my area particularly well covered. So I'm going to fill in the blanks as part of the "explore my grid square" tasks (5 & 6).

4. Thanks to some interesting pointers and online documents I've learned more about planning regs (task 75) than I ever wanted to. And I've discovered just how much commercial rents in nice areas go for (task 74). A lot, is the answer.

5. Walking isn't happening as much as I'd like - 30 miles in any given week is a lot. I can do 20-mile weeks reasonably frequently - I've done eleven so far - so task 4 is getting modified downwards, I'm afraid.

6. New lightbulbs don't get hot enough to make a proper lava lamp (task 84), so I'm having to rethink the original plan. Thankfully I came across this, which has given me ideas.

7. Wordle-ing the blog posts has dropped off. I think I'm more cross about this than anything else; they're there as a prompter for me to actually update the blog, and didn't work. I shall have to kick myself into writing proper updates to this, and expand on the things I've written about in this entry.

So: bad Mike, no biscuit.

#6

Task: (as part of 5) Thoroughly investigate my grid square

What my spreadsheet says: Track the square, street by street with the Tracker and upload the data into a Google Map, along with photos (geotagged if possible) and a detailed listing of everything I consider interesting.

More Details: This could be very interesting. What stuff could be hidden away, I wonder?

One off task? Probably not, as whilst it could be knocked off in a weekend it probably won't documented in the same timeframe.

Measurable? Yes, by blogging about what I've discovered, and producing a document about it.

#5

Task: Find out my grid square

What my spreadsheet says: Grid squares are nationally recognised OS co-ordinates. I need to find out in which square my house is, mark out the boundaries, and keep a printout of it somewhere obvious.


More Details: This could be interesting.

One off task? Yes, but it links into #6

Measurable? Yes, by reporting on what my grid square is.