Alasdair Craig

The week of Apr 27, 2026 – May 3, 2026

Monday: Public holiday. We went for pizza and beer at Mojo Market. A drive home along the Atlantic Seaboard. Grocery shopping. Chores.

Tuesday: Worked on the PROJ library usage. Gave gym a skip.

Wednesday: Dermatology appointment for the BCC to be removed — local anaesthetic, painless. Will be biopsied. Evening by myself while Susan was at Madame Zingara with some girlfriends.

Thursday: Work from home day. Susan had a financial advisor meeting. Braai just the two of us.

Friday: Public holiday. Worked on the side project.

Saturday: Shopping for the dinner party. Made crème brûlée and savoury pinwheels. Susan also made osso buco and mashed potato. A good evening with Julia, Jill and Liz.

Sunday: A fairly relaxing day. Walked around Hatfield Village. After-party tidying up. Computer work. Rob & Marian chat and F1 watching.

The week of Apr 20, 2026 – Apr 26, 2026

Monday: A wintry day. After-work spin class.

Tuesday: Unusually working from home. This sprint is taking a long time. First blue sky since last Thursday.

Wednesday: Gym. Not much to report.

Thursday: Sprint review meeting. Dinner with Brian and Di at Al’s Place.

Friday: Work day spent on non-Springburn-related things — nice to do that occasionally. Friday drinks were different with Chris in the office. A pleasant evening.

Saturday: Tidied the garden and put down some topsoil. A little time in the workshop polishing brass. Dinner at Hows Your Oni with Claire and Chris.

Sunday: Polishing brass in the workshop. Not feeling 100% — headachy. Marathon TV watching.

The week of Apr 13, 2026 – Apr 19, 2026

Monday: Finally got my vehicle tracker synchronised with the odometer reading — one admin job ticked off. After-work spin class.

Tuesday: Left work at midday for Susan and I to attend Uncle Martin’s 90th birthday party, organised by Gerry and Sitara. Grateful that I managed to fix Susan’s work problem that had taken ages to understand.

Wednesday: Dermatology appointment with Dr Omar — a basal cell carcinoma (BCC), needs excision and a biopsy. Thankfully still small.

Thursday: Work from home day. A pretty good day work-wise.

Friday: For the first time in two sprints, feeling positive about the tiled backdrop work. Gym.

Saturday: A very rainy Saturday. Spent the day on my computer — writing a work proposal for an AI pilot project and doing side project coding. Indian takeaway.

Sunday: Project Hail Mary at Nu Metro, Cavendish — a very nice theatre with spacious aisles and recliner seats. A pleasant and relaxing day.

The week of Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 12, 2026

Monday: Easter Monday public holiday. Walked around Rondebosch Common. Dinner at Sushi Box in Newlands. Baked a plum crumble. Rob & Marian chat.

Tuesday: Back to work after the Easter weekend. Two walks up and down the road.

Wednesday: Gym. Lovely warm still evening — supper outside.

Thursday: Rocky Horror Picture Show at Theatre on the Bay — a good production.

Friday: An IT issue finally resolved. Gym. End of a short week that felt long all the same.

Saturday: Running around on chores in the morning and playing with AI prompts in the afternoon. Went to the Lumenocity show in the Company’s Garden with Susan, Claire and Chris in the evening, after dinner at Col’Cacchio’s. An impressive display.

Sunday: Gardener here for the day — did a fabulous job tidying up.

The week of Mar 30, 2026 – Apr 5, 2026

Monday: Tired and slow day. Two walks up and down the road. After-work spin class — no air con made it hot and sweaty, and there was no water, so I had to wait until home to shower.

Tuesday: Booked a dermatologist appointment, hoping it turns out well. An after-work walk around the neighbourhood helped clear my mind. A fairly warm evening in the garden.

Wednesday: After-work gym session as I didn’t make it at lunchtime.

Thursday: Work from home day. Harrington’s Club for dinner and music with Claire, Chris and Susan — turned out to be more of a nightclub where food service isn’t the priority.

Friday: Good Friday. Prepared for the DIY decking repair project. Dinner with Duncan and his parents at Cattle Baron in Pinelands.

Saturday: Very busy and physically hard day repairing the decking. Utterly broken by the end of it.

Sunday: DIY morning — put up pictures, a map and a handrail on the walls. Quite a fun afternoon visiting nurseries before vegging in front of the TV.

The week of Mar 23, 2026 – Mar 29, 2026

Monday: Sprint review meeting — unusual for a Monday. Gym. Admin. Last night before Susan comes home; looking forward to seeing her.

Tuesday: Susan back home from her trip to Knysna. A few things I could have been more considerate of. Sorry, Susan.

Wednesday: An unsuccessful work day. Gave gym a skip.

Thursday: Work from home day. Finally had some success with work. Start of a birthday weekend.

Friday: Birthday leave day. Visited Toolcraft and went to gym. Bad traffic prevented me from doing more. Finished reading Say Nothing. Susan and I visited the Oranjezicht City Farm Market.

Saturday: Birthday. Formula 1 watching. Time in the workshop. Lunch at La Parada at the Waterfront, followed by Wedgewood ice cream. TV watching.

Sunday: Breakfast at the RCYC with Brenda, Wally, Claire, Chris, Duncan, Susan and me. Side project coding time. Rob & Marian chat.

The week of Mar 16, 2026 – Mar 22, 2026

Monday: Still tired after another DIY-heavy weekend. Gym to stretch out. Turned out to be a good work day — feeling optimistic about the current proof of concept. In the evening Susan and I spent more time getting the house back in order after the painting works.

Tuesday: Little to report. Struggling with a georeferenced tiling project.

Wednesday: A frustrating day at work — so close to a good tiling solution, but not quite properly georeferenced, which makes it useless. Gym.

Thursday: Susan left for a few days in Knysna with her mom. Finally getting somewhere with the tiled backdrop project.

Friday: End of sprint, but no review meeting due to absenteeism. A long and tiring week.

Saturday: Quiet day spent on gardening and side project coding. Still managed to get my car washed. Watched the movie Snatch again for the first time in years — very funny.

Sunday: Grocery shopping and computer time trying to get Goose OpenCode working locally with Ollama — unsuccessful. Visited Denise. Chores.