Monthly Archives: January 2019

Swimming, 18th January 2019

Bit of a chaotic session today. I’ve never seen the pool so busy in this Friday slot. I nearly didn’t go, in fact, as I didn’t sleep very well last night and then we had a visitor who only left … Continue reading

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Swimming, 17th January 2019

A repeat of my previous session today, though I had a day off yesterday. I was intending to swim, but a night out playing skittles on Tuesday put paid to that idea 🙂 The pool was eerily quiet when I … Continue reading

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Swimming, 15th January 2019

Back with a reduced rest interval today. I was expecting this one to be tough, but actually it wasn’t so bad. I failed once, on rep 15. Admittedly I was getting a little ragged towards the end, but not hideously … Continue reading

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TYR goggles: the final decision

Yet again in my session today these goggles kept misting up, often within seconds of being put on. I don’t think I’ve ever had a pair of goggles that misted up so fast, and certainly not when they were all … Continue reading

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Swimming, 14th January 2019

Another repeat of my last session today, but this time with the hope that I’d be able to get through the session with just one failure, having had two in both previous attempts. As it happened I managed to get … Continue reading

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Building an observatory. Construction #37

This weekend was grey and dreary and after a couple of hours of horizontal rain on Sunday I wasn’t really keen to go out and do much work on the observatory, especially as I really wanted the roof open so … Continue reading

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Ubuntu 64-bit ARM beta missing package niggles

This week I downloaded the Ubuntu 64-bit ARM beta image to try out (and so I could test building oacapture against the 64-bit ARM environment). It booted neatly, but I got a bit stuck when I tried to install the … Continue reading

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Swimming, 11th January 2019

Forced myself back to the pool today despite not really feeling on it thanks to sleeping badly last night. And I’d have to admit that I didn’t really swim as well as I felt I could. However, repeating yesterday’s set … Continue reading

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TYR Velocity goggles update

Disappointingly, on their third outing my new TYR goggles persistently misted up. No idea why. They’d been fine the first two times and I rinsed them in clean water and kept them in a hard case when not being used, … Continue reading

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Swimming, 10th January 2019

Back to the pool today with a new, faster, target, fully expecting it to be quite tough. I wasn’t wrong this time, either. It really was hard work. Had my first failure on rep 12 and another on 20, but … Continue reading

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