Now

Twenty years since Preethi and I started dating, and fourteen since we got married. Everything else this month is a footnote, but here are the footnotes anyway.

Launched this site. Self-hosted, obviously. Moved my food diary onto the NAS and taught Claude to write into it. Found out Docker had never been on my SSDs while writing a post claiming it was, and fixed it the same afternoon. Built this theme, then rebuilt it roughly fifteen times.

Off the keyboard: heading to IndieWeb Kerala, arriving with a self-hosted blog like it's a membership card. Then Hiran's AeroPress workshop on the 29th, where I expect to learn I've been making coffee wrong for years. And prepping for an overnight trek in the Periyar Tiger Reserve next month. The tigers have not confirmed.

• Weight: [end-of-month figure]
• All three targets: 25 of 25 days so far
• Steps: 526,957
• Active: 5,881 min, 35,078 kcal

Rewrote my resume by asking an AI to roast it like a hiring manager. It was rude. It was right. Picked up a new consulting project with an AI startup that models cause and effect, which is how I ended up mapping Dubai oil prices to GDP at 1am. Built a small ball-maze game called TILT for no good reason. Revisited my Harry Potter opinions. They have not softened.

• Weight: 79.3 kg
• All three targets: 31 of 31 days
• Steps: 693,249
• Active: 8,155 min, 50,349 kcal

Badminton got serious. Dog-sat the neighbours' dog. More hospital runs. Two consulting projects on the go: a CMS that would like to make money, and a hardware company asking itself the same question. Spent more time than is reasonable predicting F1 grid positions, mostly wrong. My smartwatch spent the month eating its own battery, so I spent mine finding out why, with ADB.

• Weight: 82 kg
• All three targets: 31 of 31 days
• Steps: 650,557
• Active: 7,698 min, 46,906 kcal

Anu's chicken pot pie was my first real temptation, and I lost, repeatedly. Then back to India for a run of family hospital visits. As a Lewis fan, a ridiculous month: P2 in Monaco, then his first win in red, in Barcelona. Started playing badminton with the neighbourhood.

• Weight: 85.2 kg
• All three targets: 24 of 30 days
• Steps: 512,019
• Active: 5,558 min, 32,385 kcal

Preethi had a work event in Las Vegas, so I went early and stayed with Alex and Anu in New York and New Jersey, then met her in Vegas for a short holiday and the Grand Canyon West. The plan for my cousin to drive us from Vegas to LA fell through; we got to LA anyway and stayed with them. Then two weeks of doing nothing much in New Jersey. Three cities, other people's kitchens, and I didn't miss a single day of targets. Also, Lewis P2 in Canada.

• Weight: 88 kg
• All three targets: 31 of 31 days
• Steps: 544,386 (half an effin' million)
• Active: 5,807 min, 34,366 kcal

A doctor's visit made it official: this is a project now, not a someday. Started the month at 97 kg and ended it at 92.

The rest of the month went into making videos for @aztecdranzer. Thomas had a DaVinci Resolve Studio licence he wasn't using, and now I am. It's a ridiculous amount of software for someone filming collectibles on a desk, and I've loved every minute of learning it: colour, cuts, and how much a video improves when you stop being precious about footage.

• Weight: 97 kg to 92 kg
• All three targets: 27 of 30 days
• Steps: 339,601
• Active: 3,610 min, 21,510 kcal