Life

We're going to move to Grenoble, France in mid-August. Super excited and a huge change. Counting down the days but savouring them while we are still here in the UK. Less than 3 weeks now until we go.

Learning

I am learning French again. Using DuoLingo. Currently on the 100 day streak marker.

Side project I am currently working on:

This month's side project is a french verb learning tool. The first current step is getting the source data by scraping a collection of verbs online. The next steps will be to display all of this scraped data, followed by devising a tool to test my knowledge of the verbs in the collection.

Reading

The first half of the year I read quite a lot of books but recently the frequency of books has dramatically dropped. This is due to many reasons including: sport (Olympics, Tour de France, Euro 2024, etc), preparing to move to France and saying goodbye to friends, family (and doing stuff necessary to move to another country), and the

Fitness

Have started running again. Started using the standing desk again and have bought a standing mat to make standing up for periods of time more comfortable. Strengthening the calf muscles. Going for more walks in the morning or at lunch time. Now that the days are longer and slightly warmer this is more achieveable. Trying to do Zwift once a week.

Job

I have resigned my job as my company were incapable of employing me in France (French tax laws require your company to have an office in France).