Highlights
- Broke 50km distance for the first time in 2019
- Kept up my daily devotional streak, thanks to the CoE’s Lent Pilgrim app
- Completed a book! (James Clear’s Atomic Habits). Still behind on the year plan though
Lowlights
- Habit streak tracking still patchy at best
- Finances ended up a mess - home improvements were unbudgeted for but perhaps add value to the house (not quantified though)
Next Month Focus Area
- Prep for Nigeria trip – order gifts for nephew and nieces
- Ola meetup
- Run a mile every day (except Sunday)
It is mid-March when I first notice the signs of spring looming, the trees behind my house once stark against the night sky now clearly visible and flowering. That they are visible has to do with both spring coming and the days getting long enough for the ambient light to make them visible by the time I set off on my morning runs. Rabbits also now dot the route I usually take, with the odd fox now and again, proof if any needed it that spring is truly here. At any other time spring would herald joy but this time it is a reminder of the ineluctable passing of time - the circle of life perhaps.
A trip from the airport reminds me about how I feel about taxi drivers. In summary, it depends on what direction the trip is (towards or away from home) and how tired I am. All that said, the conversations that ensue are infinitely more intriguing when it is a taxi driver who can tell his Benin from his Lagos. I had one of those on my trip from the airport this last time which made the trip that bit more tolerable.
Besides work (and an offshore trip I jokingly referred to as a return to the gulag on Instagram), things have been steady. There were no books finished this month, the downside of the tons of media I consumed including the entire Jesus and Jollof first season, Chimamanda’s seminal feminism TED Talk and Martin Freeman’s appearance on desert island disc.
Steady, steady then. Marginal progress for the win.