The rain that fell most of the night has stopped. It’s a dull, quiet, much more typical May temperature day, which makes a change from the 27℃ and 25℃ of the last two. I’ve been on leave all week. It was front-ended by my wife and I visiting Uluṟu for our anniversary and back-ended by doing stuff around the house and gaming.
I’ve been doing very little thinking at all and that’s nice. What thoughts have crossed my mind have been natural and not demanded by work or Personal knowledge management goals. I haven’t even catalogued our holiday photos beyond organising them by date and time.
I did however spend time sorting out Quantum OS Source Naming Rules and finally removed all the historical note tags that were clogging up my systems. Tags are not knowledge and now all tags are just Quantum OS Class Tags or Quantum OS Journal Tags. Everything is nice and neat (just don’t peek under the carpet).
I though I might get around to a Map of Content for the Expand my Way of Being landscape. I did a small experiment over the previous two weeks of spending 30 mins a day working on maps. It showed me I don’t quite have the concept down, and my high-level maps need work. I did get Productive Laziness sorted to a much better standard. Anyway, Expand my Way of Being, in my relaxed holiday state, hasn’t had a look in beyond me recognising the most likely place to start is a mind map or concept map; visual, not text.
I read the new Mark Lawrence book Daughter of Crows while I was away and it’s up to his usual standard. I’m looking forward to see how the story resolves over the next two books; all his stories are trilogies. Swann’s Way has been put aside for the moment. I’m enjoying it by need a break from 19th Century France. Currently reading Children of Ruin and listening to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Alongside my reading I determined that KOReader to iPhone sync is not for me.
My daughter gifted me a Darth Vader LEGO set for Christmas which I saved until now. I build a bag a day to draw out the enjoyment. Not a lot to this one with only 5 bags, nevertheless there is a record of my Building the Darth Vader Helmet in LEGO.
I put the base coat down on the head and arms of Manfred von Carstein. Today’s plans to paint most likely scuppered by the dull light and the draw of Elite: Dangerous as that’s had my attention the last couple of days.
I posted on Monday that: In Bendigo the trees have just woken up to the fact they are 2/3 through Autumn. Perhaps it’s the balmy 26℃ today on 1 May that’s confusing them. It feels like those cartoons where a tree dumps all its leaves in a moment. We’re going to need to blower vac (sue me!) the leaves from the shade sail tomorrow before it rains. Have never had them collect there before.
A walk the next day had dried, crunched leaves all over the footpaths which is itself unusual. The leaves normally stay wetter for a while.