Another nice hot day. Went out to walk, and found all the flying ants had come out and were swarming literally everywhere. I ended up with them landing in my hair and on my neck. Good thing I wasn't running, there'd be a big chance I ended up with some of them in my mouth.
With the pubs and restaurants now open, we decided to head out for some food, and went to our local Harvester. We booked a table in advance. Got a Quorn BBQ stack.
Flipped around today, no workout and just walking today.
Went a different route to see how long it would be and it turns out not too much longer than my shorter route, but with more hill work.
Day 101 of quarantine training. Cloudy day, 19 degC. FitBit workout done, was legs day and, boy my legs are burning.
Will probably head out for a walk to cool them down in a bit.
Hit day 100 in quarantine and my FitBit Premium trial is coming up for renewal soon. Still uncertain whether I should renew or not....
Did another FitBit coach workout and walk in again, ~20 degC temperature.
Another 20-ish degC day today, a bit breezy but decided to do the long 1 hr walk.
Spent a big chunk of today preparing for, and attempting to upgrade my Pixelbook to Gallium OS.
I imaged it, then made a file backup of my home directory, before installing the OS, overwriting my Ubuntu, then restoring the home directory backup into the newly installed OS and then chowning the directory to me.
As a habit, I then imaged the laptop at this state.
I prepared a semi-automated script to install apps that I had installed on my Ubuntu, which included things like virt-manager, virtualbox, google-chrome and the like.
However, I soon found out that VirtualBox 6.1 seems to crash the mouse driver on reboot and the mouse pointer no longer moves and Gallium doesn't even seem to see a pointer device when you check the mouse and touchpad option. I had to revert back to the image just after the file copy.
There is always the option of installing VirtualBox 6.0 from the Ubuntu repositories rather than the Oracle repositories, which uses a different installation setup. Maybe that will result in a different outcome.
Eventually, I restored back to my original Ubuntu installation so I can retry again tomorrow.
EDIT: Retried again the next day, and found out the sound wasn't working, even on the live disk. Better find out what's the deal with that...
EDIT2: Found out that my Pixelbook model doesn't have working sound drivers on GalliumOS. I guess I will have to wait until that is fixed before using that. I guess I'm staying on Ubuntu. In the meantime, I'm going to see if I can compile a later version of the kernel to see if I can somehow get VirtualBox working better.
A cool-ish day today, temp at 20degC so did my walk. The pubs were open again, so saw most of them in use. Even the local Wetherspoons was now open.
Barbers were open too. And pretty much all of them were packed except for the smallest one which only had a few customers. The nearest barber to me was only accepting appointments anyway.
Went for a mini-run today. Did my short walk, but decided to walk-run it today and went past the balloons house. Found out the name of the person was "Victoria"
Mixed weather day, some rain, but now its 20degC. Done my FitBit workout, will be heading out for walk soon.
Got caught in the rain, and had to sprint back -- still that's good exercise.
Someone asked me where the station was -- which was a 30 minute walk unless you get the bus to cut part of the journey time. They chose not to get the bus and continued walking -- in the rain too. And without an umbrella...
Found this in a nearby road:
A bit of digging round, and I found the reason:
[www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8480953/Girl-13-killed-struck-car-north-Londonng.html)
A 41-year-old woman has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a 13-year-old girl was knocked down and killed in north London.
Police said the car struck the victim and a 15-year-old girl in Barnet, north London at 9.35pm on Monday.
Scotland Yard confirmed the 15-year-old was uninjured but suffered shock witnessing the collision.
Looking at the location of the flowers, it is near the end of the road, which leads to a miniroundabout. The road, especially at night, is pretty empty and prone to fast drivers (regularly, we hear cars and motorbikes revving late at night), so my suspicion is that someone drove fast down the road, heading towards the miniroundabout, couldn't stop in time and hit the 13-year-old square, and missed the the 15-year old.
Muscles are still hurting from yesterday, so I'll skip my FitBit workout and just walk. There was rain earlier, but it's okay for now....
The temperature was also a lot warmer than the past two or so (very wet) days.
Another cloudy, slightly rainy day. FitBit workout for core and legs and my stomach muscles are screaming at me right now.
Going to take my chances and go for a walk in about 15 mins and see if I get soaked with rain or not.
Cooler today, so did my FitBit workout then went for my walk to cool down.
No walk today -- been raining on-off, so did my first FitBit workout in a while.
Significantly cooler and wetter today. Got caught in the rain while shopping, and in my T-shirt to boot.
Did my walk, but the clouds were not promising sunshine.
Reached 90 days of quarantined training. Another scorcher of a day. A bit of rain in the early hours of this morning.
FitBit shows 27degC, but a breeze made it tolerable.
Another scorcher of a day. 30+ degC showing in the car, 29 degC showing on my FitBit as of 4pm.
Went up to Sainbury's and there was no queue so went in to get some groceries. It was freezing in there. They'd cranked up the aircon high to compensate for the heat outside.
My FitBit is registering 29degC temperature so far, but it feels so, so much hotter than that. Had to use my Asics cap to keep the sun out of my eyes as I walked and my fan has been on almost the entire day.
TfL finally replied and my application for exemption of the CC is refused. Even though my car meets the CO2 emissions requirement, it doesn't meet the 20-mile EV requirement (must be table to travel 20 miles with zero emissions.)
Details on this article: [www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/car...](https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-6516655/Electric-cars-no-longer-Congestion-Charge-exempt-London-2025.html)
They refunded the £10 I paid for registration.
However, I may still be able to get an exemption. Since my dad also uses my car and he's registered disabled, he may be able to register my car as a blue-badge holder, which gives 100% exemption.
A scorcher of a day. My car is showing a temperature of 32 degC.
Had to dig out my desk fan again, only a few days after putting it away.
Noticed more shops are now open. The local pharmacy is open for customers, but a one-way system is enforced. My local Costa is open for takeaway only.
Several shops have signs saying they are opening soon.
Went to get my spare key from Toyota. Took them 2 hours to get my car into the workshop and get the key reprogrammed. They left a sign in my car when they were done. They had also washed and cleaned the car in the process.
A mobile coffee truck came along while I was waiting outside for the car to be done. I got a coffee while I waited
Forgot to log this yesterday. Spent most of the day in the car with my parents, letting my dad drive and get used to the new car.
I drove back after they stopped off for shopping.
The weather was sunny and hot and in the 20s degC so after I got back, I did go and do my daily walk.
A blustery, mixed-weather day today. Lots of cloud and threatened rain, but didn't during my run.
Been raining most of the day. A brief respite after work let me get some walking done.
Gloomy day, but still hot and muggy with occasional showers.
My hire car finally got picked up, exactly 8 weeks after it was delivered.
Had a moan at Toyota over email -- they confirmed my appointment to get the key reprogrammed, but attempted to sneak a £10 charge in, for "a 40-point surface point clean"
Considering I'm only going back there due to a mistake made by their mechanic and paint damage caused by them, I shouldn't be paying for any of that.
Charges are waived.