{"id":1427,"date":"2017-04-26T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:03:23","slug":"week-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/week-293\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 293"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week of Apr 17, 2017 &#8211; Apr 23, 2017<\/p>\n<p><em>Feeling satisfied with side projects and reading&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Monday:<\/b>\u00a0Public holiday: Grocery shopping, haircut with Lynn. Back to my flat to do some computer catch-up. Gym, wind down to a rather uneventful long weekend. Finished reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.<br \/>\n<a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1817975.Pattern_Recognition\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1397712792m\/1817975.jpg\" alt=\"Pattern Recognition\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1817975.Pattern_Recognition\">Pattern Recognition<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9226.William_Gibson\">William Gibson<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1150696065\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not a very complex story. Only one dominant character. A lame ending. Dated web 1.0 references. Sometimes hard to follow sentence structure.<br \/>\n<b>Tuesday:<\/b> Early start to beat the traffic, turned out not that\u00a0congested. Picked mom up from the airport at midday. Reading. Tired, early to bed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday:<\/b> Gym. Published a <a href=\"http:\/\/sideproject.acraig.za.net\/2017\/04\/19\/365-day-time-lapse-with-a-raspberry-pi\/\">blog post<\/a> and accompanying YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PX6UJ-aZOW0\">video<\/a> on my time lapse project. Glad that it&#8217;s done and out of the way.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday:<\/b> Successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/acraig5075\/codeeval\/tree\/master\/59-telephone-words\">completed<\/a> CodeEval challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codeeval.com\/open_challenges\/59\/\">59<\/a>. Moves me up the leaderboard to 14th in South Africa (any language) and 549 in the world (C++ language).<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>Friday:<\/b> Gym, grocery shopping, YouTube and reading.<\/p>\n<p><b>Saturday:<\/b> Copy shop visit for some guillotine work, scanning documents. My sister gave me a belated birthday present of some artisanal chocolate covered Turkish Delight. Afternoon spent finishing the cabling for moms well point. Sushi dinner at Sukura with Barbs, Estelle and Heidi.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sunday:<\/b> Bacon and eggs for breakfast, can&#8217;t remember when last I did that. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endomondo.com\/users\/7853450\/workouts\/910138411\">Walk<\/a> with Julia in Tokai park, followed by coffee at Vovo Telo. Lunch with mom at Cafe Magnifico. Tidied the garage, chores.<\/p>\n<p><em>My work week was divided into: <\/em>50% new work, 50% bug fixing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acraig.za.net\/podcasts.html\"><em>Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em> listened to this week: <\/em>PitPass; CppCast; (x2); How I Built This;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of Apr 17, 2017 &#8211; Apr 23, 2017 Feeling satisfied with side projects and reading&#8230; Monday:\u00a0Public holiday: Grocery shopping, haircut with Lynn. Back to my flat to do some computer catch-up. 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