Weeknote 2026-32

Talking about a tough week padded between with a great run, and time relaxing at football/rugby.

My second ever week note, and holding onto that weekly cadence so far. Hold on for a week of mediocrity and misery, front-ended by a fantastic 10km run.

Work

Probably the least said about work this week the better. I was hoping to launch a transformation project next week which I have pushed back to mid September as a result of current workload and resource. It is a bit catch 22, as launching this piece of software will reduce my workload dramatically - but I need to be able to configure it properly and support the launch. Very disappointing all round, contributing to a very miserable week.

Projects

Amidst the mediocrity of work though, I have ploughed on with a number of my personal projects which I'll start talking about soon. I think that they are all heading past MVP now and towards 1.0.

I have also made a cute little expense and mileage tracker for work. Not sure if it will roll more widely at this point, but for the first time ever I'm essentially 3 weeks ahead with my August expenses rather than catching up in a hurry mid September. I might talk about this project too, but a big improvement on spreadsheet, even if it's deliverable is a zip file containing that same spreadsheet, with receipt images.

Sod it, here's a few screenshots...

![Expense app showing receipt and manually entered metadata below](/content/images/weeknote-2026-32/IMG_0563-copy.webp) ![Expense app showing a route being plotted on a map to calculate mileage, with buttons to enter instead by odometer or from saved routes](/content/images/weeknote-2026-32/IMG_0564.webp)

Exercise

I started off the week really well, following up a strong run last Sunday with an even stronger fastest 10km of the last decade holding onto the long group at Trawden AC on the Barrowford Summer Route on Monday.

My training suffered after that as work life balance deteriorated heavily, and I've not ran since - though I have been in the gym and on the bike towards the end of the week.

Exploring

One of the other benefits of watching sport at the weekend is that I find it helps to put distance between myself and work and the week. It is pretty much impossible to work while inside a stadium too.

I spent Saturday afternoon at Turf Moor watching a clearly superior Burnley side scrape past Notts County in the League Cup on penalties following a 1-1 tie, inertness in front of goal clearly unresolved from last season.

I then finished off this afternoon watching Oldham do their best to throw away a three try advantage, before winning the game 31-30 with a last touch drop kick.

![Me wearing a cream Burnley away shirt with green and claret trim - surrounded by green fields and blue skies at Bank Hall in Burnley](/content/images/weeknote-2026-32/IMG_0567.webp) ![Me wearing a read and white hooped Oldham Rugby League shirt, outside the Rifle in Oldham](/content/images/weeknote-2026-32/IMG_0588.webp)

People

I hate people. Other than that, not much to report this week - other than Vickie running up the Barrowford Road for the first time today - the return on my Nelson Skyline Route. While I'm very proud of her progress, I doubt she will make that mistake again any time soon.

Hopefully I'll be back next week in a more positive mood.