Hit the 200 day mark in exercising while in quarantine. Although, strictly speaking, I’ve passed the 200 point already, just forgot/didn’t bother to log it.
Today’s walk was cold and dark, and absolutely freezing. Went out with a wooly had and gloves and STILL felt the cold.
I’ve been rather lax again with logging my walks.
The temperature has really dropped in recent days and it’s been absolutely freezing when doing my afternoon walk, not to mention its getting darker a lot earlier than before.
A very short walk due to heavy rain.
In other news, I found my replacement to Revolut — Curve.
Curve seems to be different. It’s not a bank of its own, but lets you put debit/credit cards onto your account and when you use the Curve card, the transaction goes onto the default card you have set on your account. And you can move the transaction from one card to the other (only once per transaction though).
Plus Curve supports FitBit Pay, meaning I can use that instead of Google Pay which has now broken again due to my device being rooted.
Another rainy evening, but still made my walk.
Evening walk, just under 3km and raining.
Slightly different walk today — went to see another prospective house, but didn’t actually go inside, since it wasn’t an actual viewing.
My offer on another house did actually get accepted finally (after a bit of back and forth)
It seems like Revolut’s latest Android update (6th November) has shafted some users, including me, rendering them unable to receive the update, and making the app disappear entirely from the Play Store for those users. No notification, no warning. Just a sudden stop to updates. I had to restore from a backup I made of the app, and was then able to transfer my money out of there.
I spoke to support, and their suggestion? Use a newer device.
I guess I will be closing my Revolut account.
Evening walk from yesterday that I forgot to log — short walk, the weather was looking ominous and did actually end up heavily raining.
Also, I got a notification a couple of days ago that Endomondo is being retired at the end of the year.
I knew this was going to happen soon at some point after Underarmor picked it up.
I’m saddened by this as Endomondo has been my go-to for a lot of running things, including helping me train for the Half Marathon. Strava is my alternative and a lot of my colleagues are on that, but I really do not like the interface and only really use it for storing my walk/run tracks.
Another evening walk, and this time I went to look at the back of a house that my folks really like post-viewing.
The back has a shared parking space — which, during the day seems okay, but in the evening, when everyone else is there, it looks very tight for space, meaning unless you have backed into the parking space, it’s going to be difficult to come out of the parking unless you reverse out.
A busy Saturday with several house viewings. One of which got cancelled due to a resident having to self-isolate due to covid.
One of the viewings today was originally written off by my folks as a “no-hope” but once they viewed inside, their tone dramatically changed.
A literal case of not judging a book by its cover.
In other news, I saw a tweet from https://twitter.com/VictoriaBID:
Now I work on top of Victoria Station, so I walk past the memorial plaque dedicated to the Unknown Soldier every day I commute to the office. Obviously not so much this year due to covid.
The Military Wives Choir did the song for Abide With Me using the now-common feature of a virtual choir:
The virtual choir idea has been used a lot this year due to social distancing, but let’s not forget, the idea dates back way further, even as far back as 2009 with Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir project (https://www.youtube.com/user/EricWhitacresVrtlChr) which also made it into several TED talks
From 2010:
2011:
And 2013:
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