George Abbott's Blog

I have written 293 blog entries, alongside 103 wordvomits.

This is a bit late, isn't it!

This is a response of sorts to Andreas of 82MHz's recent post about not feeling all that excited about new tech.

It's been the first week of normality, and I got back to work to find that I couldn't even get through my e-mails before the meetings that were set up as soon as I return told me that I had other priorities I had to focus on, things that needed to be done…

(I wrote this using help of translation tools so this is no indicator of how good my italian actually is - it's really much worse.)

I wrote a response-of-sorts to two entries of Bard's about rain and snow...

I've been recently feeling a little deskilled, or rather, like I haven't had the time dedicated to focussed activity in a given domain, that results in building skills.

I was at Aldis earlier, and had a bit of a naughty thought.

I figure I should probably title my weeknotes so that I can clearly tell at a glance what each weeknote is about.

My mother was recommended this book by my grandmother (her mother), and she then recommended it to.

The IndieWeb carnival for August 2026, hosted by Chris Shaw, has the theme of purpose.

This is an absolutely incredible video by The Leftist Cooks, very well researched and very long that I would recommend.

Don't you love it when a person's blog contains information that absolutely nobody apart from the individual themselves would find interesting?

So, I have had an interesting week!

(This was meant to be a response to a blog where somebody wrote about the concept.

This is a response to Bearly a diary's post on digital and manual creation.

It's improved!

At work, it's been quite busy this week.

Screentime stats again.

I notice the past few weeks I've been in a bit of a state.

In his paragraph entitled It's a shame, Anil states: But the adoption patterns and usage data show that even younger people are using some AI tools.

I run Umami analytics on my site, and have done for a few years.

Haven't done a proper weeknote for awhile.

Of course, one problem is that it's a huge problem in general, with massive numbers in question, and requiring huge populations to make changes.

I have been thinking a little bit recently, especially in the light of the question I received relating to AI, on my use of it.

I haven't written on the blog much at all the past six months, and really I feel no inspiration.

It's not really a weeknote.

So, I haven't written anything for the weeknotes, I'll explain why.

2025 is over, and it's been a good year, I would say, in all.

Last year, I set myself 25 goals for 2025.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Stats Screentime: xx Average steps walked per day: xx Reading M05 study update Languages Italian German Music Mandolin Health Exercise Weight and diet My current weight is around xx st xx lb.

It's been a week, and I wanted last week to try to get my life back in order, at least in how it feels.

A lot of my hobbies are what I like to call old man hobbies.

As usual, I've done a terrible job of writing down what I did.

This weeknote is written at the same time as the one for the week after (W41), as I've got to catch up on them.

Again, I was pretty bad at actually writing down what I did this week.

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I've been playing mandolin for a little under a year now.

(Also, this technically marks the end of 200 Days to Offload but I can't be asked to post specifically to celebrate it!)

Monday I had a swim in the ... evening, I think?

Whoa.

A while ago, I was thinking of giving up search engines, and in fact even blocked search engines on my computer.

Monday Well, work of course, but I also ended up finishing The Four Beauties.

Monday I've had a dry throat recently, that I think might be some amount of acid reflux.

I've been pretty good at updating the diary this week, which is good...

The holiday continued for the first half of the week, until Thursday.

A week that will be difficult, as I have not written many diary entries this week...

I went for a long walk today, around two and some hours.

Monday I didn't actually write a diary entry for the day...

God, I really am good at writing my weeknotes late, aren't I?