This week has been a little dull,  full of routine and sameness.

Monday May 11th

We launched our new website Ginger Robot and set some goals for the coming months for it.  Jan and I have cooked a lot of delicious meals this week, teriyaki chicken, grilled lime salmon salads,  grilled beef sweet chilli salad wraps. yum.

Tuesday May 12th

The weather was pretty awesome the last few days.   We went back to the gym and it was awesome.  Tried out the rowing machine and did 400m in 2 minutes, which is a good starting point.  Be cool to test it out again in a few months.

Wednesday May 13th

Jan and I popped into a Chinese grocer and bought some goodies, udon noodles, mirin wine, Pokky.  Went along to the python meetup at the Bull and Castle.  There were about 20 python geeks and I shared pokky with them!  I decided we should buy a book about Django, and I chatted with Vicky about the python group and their plans.  I chatted with Stephen about his talk about Django and QT, he’ll also be speaking at the conference I’m going to in the Canaries in July!   I wish I could have stayed longer but i had a headache and the football blaring in the background was too much.

Thursday May 14th

Gym again, horrid weather outside. I made myself a 101 goals in 10001 days list.   Since doing that I started thinking of a bunch of other things to do too, so have started a second place to put those goals as they come back to me.

Friday May 15th

I worked late then met Jan to try the new sushi train restaurant in town ‘Yo Sushi’ behind the Brown Thomas building.   We were a little shocked at the prices, and the lack of variety on the train. However you can order things from the menu and they have 30% off the bill until the end of May.   We noticed the fish slices seemed extra thin compared to the same restaurant in England,  we were left feeling similar to eating elsewhere in Dublin, ripped off by  skimpy portions for higher prices.  Anyway I’m sure we’ll be back, we love sushi.

Back home I looked up the nutritional information for sushi, while in general it’s healthy and low calorie, rice is high in carbs so adds up pretty quickly.  Also anything non fish adds up, we had duck rolls,  fried prawns, eel, so it wasn’t such a diet friendly night, but was fine in the end.

Saturday May 16th

Up to thrashing rain and winds.   By the time we were dressed for our run it’d calmed down to just the wind.  We went out into the wild weather with wind in our faces as we ran down to Howth Road.  We ran along the seaside being pushed to the side by the stiff breeze.  I thought it was very pretty,  grey sky, green mossy rocks with the tide pulled back at the waterway between our coast and the long Bull island.  Along the path there was purple flowery heather.  I found it hard to keep my heart rate down low enough to not be over doing it. I had to slow down a lot to get my breath back.  My body feels fine other than my lungs/heart, so hopefully they’ll improve as we continue our training.  Jan is really struggling to go slow enough to stay back with me, which he finds frustrating, but it’s nice to head out once a week together in any case.  We can go at our own rates at the gym Tue/Thursdays.

We relaxed in bed watching Eurovision with glasses of white wine.   We really enjoyed the performances this year, the stage was so amazing, with giant screens all around them, including on the floor, the quality of the screens was spectacular too.

Sunday May 17th

A giant flower appeared in our front yard.   I prickly pear like pod had grown in the middle of our wild garden and in a few seconds the flower burst out.   Anyone know what it is?

Spent the rest of the weekend scrapbooking, working on my New York Album.  Working on the OSSBarcamp2 website, planning to cook up a giant lasagna for the freezer too.

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