BlogHide Resteemslloyddavis (71)in well-well • 3 years agowot tho?dunnolloyddavis (71)in play • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Playing with Google Meet CaptionsI remembered that Google Meet does live captioning so I had a bit of fun playing with it. It's better than I'd expected. A rude word in the first few seconds though...lloyddavis (71)in writing • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Not full, not emptyMy days are not full of any one thing. Sometimes I give a few hours to something, but mostly I flit from thing to thing. A little bit here, a little bit there. I'm up by seven usually and…lloyddavis (71)in rust • 5 years agoSomething something somethingIt should be more than this. It should be less than a day between this and the last one, but it turns out there's not as much drive as I thought. Maybe it's like other exercise, you have to warm…lloyddavis (71)in writing • 5 years agoTempting to think that nobody's listeningThat's when it's my favourite time to write. It's perverse and contrary I know, but I never really wrote for the comments or even for interaction. Sometimes to be noticed, but enjoying the…lloyddavis (71)in exhaust • 5 years agoA milestone passedI ran 4.205km in 26mm:12ss ! This was a milestone run - it was a personal best over 1 mile and over 2 miles and over the whole thing I averaged 6 mins/km for the first time. When I started…lloyddavis (71)in exhaust • 5 years agoWent out for 3, did 4This morning I ran 4.013km in about 26mm:30ss ! This picture is one of the reasons I run. If I didn't I'd be at home looking at the most ridiculous things on the internet. A good day today…lloyddavis (71)in exhaust • 5 years agoBack on the beatThis morning I did a 4.48km run that lasted about 28mm:38ss ! Not quite 5k and not quite 30 minutes, but still, a good one and according to Strava a PB on 1k of 5:32 (I'm not sure what it was…lloyddavis (71)in coronavirus • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.#community work in the time of pandemicWhat's next? I've been Community Worker at a church in Guildford since just before Christmas. I'm getting to know the congregation and regular users of the church. People often remark on how busy…lloyddavis (71)in exhaust • 5 years agoNo Metronome TodayI just finished a 6.44km run that lasted about 43mm:19ss ! For the past few weeks I've been using a running app called runzi that measures all the things Strava does, but also has a metronome…lloyddavis (71)in pandemic • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Writing On Toilet PaperI've seen a few people on FB asking "Why on earth are people hoarding toilet paper?" or else "Why are people panic-buying toilet paper?". My intention here is not to put these people down, but to…lloyddavis (71)in exhaust • 5 years agoMet a small flood along the wayI just finished a 5.125km run that lasted about 34mm:46ss ! I will have to look back and see when I last posted a run. I think I've got a bit faster perhaps, the incremental improvement is…lloyddavis (71)in art • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Drawing BlindEvery day in February, I took a few minutes to draw myself with the "blind contour" technique - that is, capturing the outlines (and a bit of filling in) of my face while not looking at what I was…lloyddavis (71)in art • 5 years agoThe LineThere have been times when I've been obsessed with the ups and downs of different financial instruments. When I worked in the City, you'd hear people routinely say things like "The market wants to…lloyddavis (71)in blogging • 5 years agoOh go on thenYes, I'm still here really. I got a day job. It knocked out my will to blog. It's one of those "super busy at Christmas" jobs. Oh and then the STEEM price was dragging along on the floor and…lloyddavis (71)in travel • 5 years agoWater falls and shoots into the airWe got back on the bus and headed on around the Golden Circle to the Golden Falls. We didn't see much gold. Erla told us that the reason they called it 'golden' was because it was the good road…lloyddavis (71)in travel • 5 years agoOn the edge of EuropeThe loud, American, HR veterans group at breakfast had moved on to writing job descriptions. "I remember the first time I saw 'customer service' listed as a desirable quality - up until then, we'd…lloyddavis (71)in travel • 5 years agoLucky didn't bring us luckIf you go to Rome, you should see the Colosseum, try visiting Manhattan and not seeing the Empire State Building, so if you go to Iceland in November, of course you should see the Northern…lloyddavis (71)in travel • 5 years agoIt's an ologyThe facades of the Harpa Concert Hall are a honeycomb of programmable glass. The windows have been turned into rainbows and national flags. All sorts of images are possible, but when we were…lloyddavis (71)in travel • 5 years agoLike Wales only less colourful"Lloyd" is a Welsh word - it's usually translated in English as "grey" but it turns out it has a much richer heritage than that - what it really means is any dirty kind of monochrome, not just…
