7am

Woke up at Nikki’s and watered her plants.

7:30am

Cycled to the Repton Boxing Club. Didn’t run or skip too much, just did what I could. Boss was late tsk tsk!!

8:30am

Went for a coffee after at the caf.

9am

Cycled up Curtain Road with Nina, Simoneing loudly about how marriage is for old folks and bumped into my newlywed sister in law. What a coincidence =D

9:30am

Got into work nice and early, helped set-up, changed the flower’s water.

10am

Went to the Oasis and had a few dives.

10:30am

Finally got both websites .uk and .com uploaded, This is the next level. 😊😊😊

11am

Sat under the tree in the garden at the back of work trying to untangle two transitions. First, the websites now being live and steady, present a whole new set of horizons. Second, quitting smoking. Caught myself procrastinating by photo-editing, and fiddling with anything that tempted me, especially the cigarettes which acted as false punctuation marks. A way of pretending to begin without actually beginning. Talked it all through with Claude and landed on two simple clear next steps: connecting PayPal to this site and following up with Lily about the barter.

11:30am

Got PayPal reconnected to this site.

12 noon

Rebooked duff ballcheck appt. Round two is on the 10th at 7:15pm, same place… I hadn’t had the capacity to deal with that, so I long grassed it until today, exactly a week later. Very much an euugh situation, but I’m not letting it get to me, and I am going to always deal with this kinda institutional bullshit. Its not going to get to me.

1:30pm

Haircut one

2:30pm

Lunch snack with Tara, chatted about the Eugene articles on the hair site. She’s gonna have a read over them, I hope. Also really want to send her a Lifejacket login. Not sure whether to dedicate focus to that just now.

3pm

Haircut two

4pm

Built a new Calendly event type for bartering haircuts. Settled on approval-required over single-use links.

5pm

Saw Nina Simone’s chewing gum at Somerset House, as part of the exhibition on worshipping pop stars.

6pm

Cycled home and bumped into an old squatter friend from 43 Ken High days (2005) who told me sad news about a friend who fell off a roof in Spain.

7pm

The cards vision landed. Retro-verso subtly different portraits on either side one with scissors one without. Custom QRs to simonmcandrew.com and simonmcandrew.uk on either side, heavy stock, hand-guillotined by yours truly. A hundred of them to test out with Cardman John.

8pm

Had a great session with Claude and my notebook, dumped alot, ie most of the content of this post, Claude held all of it admirably and with real care.

9pm

Pasta for dinner

10pm

Called Nikki to say goodnight

All day long

Tired of smoking.

Mañana

• Message Lily
• Share Lifejacket with Tara
• Bike lights
• Think about post types for tickets
• The archive/ask-kive concept, Try to nail it