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#today is the start of #festival week, so a ~300 mile train(s) journey to Cumbria starting soon, with a friend for most of it. I believe I have everything packed, well probably a bit too much. And as a sop to my inner sysadmin, yes I do have an

#today I caught up on some admin around one project in advance of a Zoom call for it, had the next stage of a slow-mo fight with insurers for a proposed new #RepairCafé, and two of us had to wrestle with the cable TV company cancellations folk for an hour to avoid home phone cut off AND price …

#today have done some work on the #paper revisions (purely editorial for now), and I am now going to finish packing for tomorrow...

#today my family is on its way back from France, so a tiny bit more tidying up and so on before they get back this evening.
Also, the journal has asked for another round of revisions on my #paper, though not too horrible at first glance. I may not get to think about it much today, and am in at uni tomorrow...

#today given that there is negatively-priced electricity available (though not to us on our #tariff), so lots and lots of renewables, I am running #maintenance (hot)

#today I have caught up on some #research reading that has been glaring at me from open tabs for a week or so, and there were some nuggets there. I have some admin chores and a meeting to chair this evening. Not much else.

I heard the UK Government's Children's Commissioner on #BBCRadio4 #Today Programme about an hour ago.
I won't get into the #UKPolitics of the discussion (a consultation on …

#today going into uni, scrabbling to finish #paper review changes in time!

#today will be mainly spent avoiding the heat again (34C forecast), with not much 'work' planned. I will attempt to keep on top of the #NewScientist article flood, if it arrives (only 5 unread tabs at the moment).

#today I start two days of heavy grind through requested major revisions of my #paper - this is going to hurt!
#research

#today is last full day at #GreenMan2026 #GreenMan ... Nights and mornings are COLD!

#today I have fitted an extra circuit-breaker to an experimental doohickey that I have going, I have checked some documents for friends, and I am about to do some admin including for a meeting next week. All wrapped around a nice warm relaxing bath*.
*Except for some HUGE knots in my hair!

#today I have done supervision and will potter on with some #research, and also prepare to release one moderately physical product idea developed into the public domain with the help of my supervisors. Now off to lunch. My son is on campus this week for work experience, so I may bump into him...

#today at #GreenMan #GreenMan2026 day 2 and queues are moderating so we may get on site this year. Not many people provably dead, even in the flash flooding which kept flashing back to steam on the…

#today did a little #research (drew the new building archetype outline), watered plants, put bins out (very early), and did a bit of tech fiddling...

#today I did some Tai Chi and I am back on my #paper, though with some excellent procrastination...
Temperature peaking at ~27C today.

#today I'm back (on Firefox, on macOS, on my MacBook, in my logged in session here)!
What do you mean you didn't notice that I was away / typing less? Huh? Huh?
Anyhow, I've been doing very little today, aspiring to the @… level of wo…

#today is a #BankHoliday but I am doing some mild chores and have an online meeting later...

#today on way to #GreenMan #GreenMan2026 with a bunch of friends.

#today I am *slowly* getting some admin done and doing some tinkering. My order with 12 Volt Planet was dealt with this morning, hurrah!
(I have also run the dishwasher and have laundry out on the line, and I think I shall go for a quick walk...)

#today I have just caught up on the #NewScientist article backlog, I am fiddling around with some logging detail for my microinverter proof-of-concept, and will probably go round to a friend's for the afternoon...

#today I am going into uni for supervision (and, I hope, comments on my paper revisions). I didn't get to start the energy system #schematic yesterday, but decided *how* to do it (with an eye to supporting a second use of it), and have started it this morning... The forecast is for 33C today, …

#today I am in at uni again (there was a third poster session this morning) and have the inventors' club this evening back in Kingston.

#today I submitted revisions to my #paper, a day ahead of deadline...
I have an ash-scattering and ticket-handover this afternoon and evening...

#today is a grand library tour with the new Repair Café at Tudor Drive in the morning, returning some stuff to the main library, and now on my way to chair KEF at Tolworth library, and meet the people who run the library services as it happens!

#today I *may* have just finished revisions to my paper, though I need to do another read-through and wait for supervisor feedback... And temperature is 'only' 26C at my desk!

#today will involve a bath, the #NewScientist article flood, some #research work (I think I may have settled on a change of building archetype in a set of 4), and prep for tomorrow's new taster …

Yesterday had some unplanned #nightclubbing which meant #TaiChi with minimal breakfast and a slight hangover #today ... Just ordered some bits for my off-grid tinkering. Not doing much else...

On my way into uni #today, though hotter than I'd usually like to be travelling (~30C), so I am exposing my manly tank top to the train a/c to try to be less damp upon arrival... A friend is taking his viva today, so there may possibly be a beer afterwards...

#today is the TTK Energy Group meeting, which gets me out of the house and walking, then I aim to get back on #research ...
It will be hot again today (>30C) as the last couple of days and the next week or so.

#today I should do more admin and #research but also I'm going to prep some ideas for adding a little bit of #plugInSolar now that our

#today I'm not doing much at all. (I had a bath and did some washing up and watered some plants in pots, and tested the tomatoes for safety, thoroughly.)
Tomorrow is a #bankHoliday here but I suspect the journal does not know and I will be asked to do more work on my #paper then!

#today sent poster off to print (submitted paper yesterday), and have caught up on some of the most urgent admin. Off shortly to dance by a river...

#today is conference #poster work day (and bath day, unconnected).
Tonight is possibly clubbing with friends who have made a house sale after months of (the usual) horrors...
And it seems to be #NewScientist

#today am on campus at uni, I have shared an updated draft of my paper with my other supervisor, and I am starting on my poster...
Online PowerPoint will not do metric measurements. I wonder which bizdev genius thought that would drive desktop sales?

#today I did just half an hour of Tai Chi (but I also get the 2 miles walking there and back). I have worked quite productively (I hope) on my #research #paper revisions/corrections. Graphs looking smart…

#today I have made some progress on the paper. I think that it is good enough to trouble my supervisors with tomorrow. Then I can start on the conference poster!

#today visited the ARC@KU #retrogaming

#today is #RepairCafé ... and we're also on the way to setting up a new branch in a smaller library nearby!

#today (and tomorrow) I shall be back on corrections for my #research #paper and not much else I think. I have a large jug of

#today I have done some admin chores, noticed that my journal paper has had one reviewer respond so far, and would really like to get back to my #research #3D building

#today I having been plugging away at the new paper. I've nearly finished starting...
Well I am on course for a first draft this evening which will need at the very least heavily cutting down, or some more drastic action...
Tomorrow is #RepairCafé...

#today I must I must I must I must improve my paper (and try and get it to good draft stage, to share with supervisors). I will also be helping a friend with some legals, being a witness to a bit of admin. I also have a small wash of #NewScientist articles to read. Oh, and a bath, timed to hel…

#today I am trying to find a way through some trying insurance stuff for our putative new #RepairCafé and then will be probably back on some #research stuff - 3D building outlines in

#today I am overdue on my #paper resubmission but mainly only needing a final read-through and confirmation that my submission format is correct this time. #IThinkICan

#today on way home... Hoping for a hot bath and horizontal bed... Who knew that a 10-pack of Madri was between me and rolling down the hill asleep.

#today is #poster presentation then #beige #meetup

#today I am in at uni, for #JournalClub, but also trying to make sense of the next round of revisions required of my journal paper in the system!

#today I have more revisions to do! The journal responded same day yesterday with the second round of review for my #paper, which is unexpectedly fast! Reviewer 3 still wants major changes, and I am away at a festival for a few days very soon, so that is hard to manage! Eeek!
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(We may have had a tiny bit of rain last night.)

#today is forecast for a mere 34°C; I am running laundry (cold wash) now and have scheduled dishwasher (ECO) around PV generation and #SSES morning grid peak, and my laptop remains off-grid, though not the extra monitor I am using to help with my journal #paper reviews (I am on review 3, which is 'major' revisions, so the toughest).