I write the initial text for these journals on my main computer, often as quick notes during the day. To make that easy I made myself a little script (actually a fish function):
function tj
set T (date +"%Y-%m-%d")
vi ~/journal/$T.md
end
Since I've now changed to recording a weekly journal, I've also …
I've decided this will be my last daily journal for a while - they are just taking too much time to write and edit. I'd really like to hear from anyone who's enjoyed reading my musings, found them useful or has any other feedback - please comment below o r send me an email.
This isn't to say that I'm going …
Apparently government revenue from stamp duty is falling because the housing market has slowed down. Probably a combination of Brexit and increased taxes on landlords.
Nursery run this morning - so that our big two could walk to school again for their Golden Boot challenge.
Also had to pause this afternoon to do the nursery collection too as school …
Interesting Python UI builder - spent 20 minutes watching the video and quite a few more reading about enaml-native more generally.
New Python 3.7 features.
"Brexit will land badly, so the Bank of England needs to get the base rate up to 1% before that" - read about views and thoughts from the Expert Property Panel at …
I do like working from home and apparently it can be "13% better" (thanks to Terzo Digital's newsletter for the great link.
Notifying/managing utilities when tenancies start and stop is quite tedious, so I think the idea behind Landlord TAP is great - unfortunately the site was completely down yesterday and today I can't enter details about my …
Evening was a secondary school visit - great to meet our oldests new form teacher and hear more about how things …
Year 4 homework this week included trying to answer this problem about when clock hands overlap!!
An impressive looking web IDE from GitLab.
Checked-in new tenants - very happy to have it let again after the decoration and assorted repairs.
A thinktank has suggested more taxes for landlords to allow more people to buy instead of rent …
Walked our big two children to school this morning, although the oldest was so late getting ready I left without him - with instructions to catch up. Of course he decided to only do that at the last moment so he could walk to school on his own! Thankfully he did survive and I didn't hear any screams …
Monthly free co-working day today, this time at CoTribe.
I didn't get to talk to people as much as I normally like to on these days because I had some urgent rental property work to sort out. However I still enjoyed getting out and seeing people; hopefully the other ten or so people attending also had a good day …
Lots and lots of time today on pre-sales consultancy proposals (and a call) - 6 hours. The call was scheduled at 1.5 hours, a further 1 hour was planned for preparing a quote, but the remaining 3.5 hours was unexpected proposal work that couldn't be delayed. That meant other very urgent rental property work got pushed to …
An incredibly exciting day, mostly spent reading tenancy agreements to decide on the one I want to use!
Of course a new mini-Henry hoover also arrived in the house which a certain small person really was excited about.
Started the day with walking our biggest two to school, as fast as we (they) would go. Liz was feeling slightly …
Far too much packed in! Oldest two children performing in two theatre shows and Liz chaperoning at one too.
The show we watched was great though (apparently the earlier one was almost as good too) and the children enjoyed performing. Auditions next week for another, larger theatre production!
Squeezed in a tiny bit of writing - working on a …
Some more interesting Gothic tower and Guiness family properties to get distracted by.
An entire London skyscraper is sold for quite a lot of money.
About 3 hours logged to "email processing", including nearly 2.5 hours as a solid block of time at the start of my work day! I definitely need to get more detailed in …
Up early and out sightly late, yes child and medicine related delays again. Got to London Olympia (a fantastically simple and all overground journey) only fifteen minutes after the landlord investment show networking event started.
Good hot chocolate. :-)
Early morning networking - had a few conversations, one really interesting, probably not business advancing though. Another extremely interesting …
Another "interesting" looking property for sale.
Getting a bit of a theme - a late start due jointly to me and need to give antibiotics to a reluctant four year old.
Once started though, got through a bit of email clearing (total of about 1.5 hours across the day!).
Had a good call with an existing consultancy …
The future of parking?
Yet another late (for work) start due to extra childcare and household drain issues (I really dislike climbing through foliage to check the outside drain).
Booked the car's MOT and ticked off a few rental property tasks, including booking an electrician visit.
A doctors visit, following up on my ear operation last year - all …
Listening to one of the podcasts I follow this weekend and found a very interesting episode about the (continuing) expansion of co-working.
In other exciting news, Starling Bank have started offering sole trader accounts. But I also had it confirmed from their customer support that if you open a business account first you then can't open a personal …
Networking breakfast - late thanks to my first bad experience with Uber. The driver couldn't get his app to recognise the pick-up (despite mine showing it had). He tried taking me back home thinking it might be geo-fenced but that didn't help. In the end he used Google Maps to navigate and took me to Reigate. Thankfully I made it …
Today started with attending a school assembly. It was really good and even included a song from The Greatest Showman! A side benefit - I was quite pleased to see others there checking and replying to emails while I didn't need to. (I'd checked my email in the queue outside, nothing to respond to; and then spent the queue …
ASD had a bytes vs str (Python) issue after base64 decoding an authorisation header. Easily fixed with a decode('utf-8') but setting a suitable header in the Django test client isn't directly covered in the docs so here's what I did:
r = self.client.get('/test_url', {
'data1': 'test_string',
'data2': '127.0.0.1',
}, HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=b'Basic ' + base64.b64encode …