- Slept: 23.30
- Woke: 09.30
- Screenplay pages: 0
- Coding practice: 1.5 hours
- Piano practice: 1 hour
- Movie: Now You See Me
Writing
Nothing writing today. I wasn’t sure if I wasn’t ‘inspired’ enough, was too lazy, or got too swept up in a deep dive on equivoque in magic/mentalism. You should Google it, it’s fantascinating.
The deep-dive was inspired by Tim Ferriss’ interview with Apollo Robbins, who is fascinating in his own right and has some wild stories (including the time he pickpocketed the Secret Service, and didn’t get arrested).
Regardless, I didn’t get any writing done, which feels like I’ve cheated myself a little there because I was on a role with 15 pages over the last two days. Broke my streak.
Coding
On the flip side, I got through 1.5 hours of coding (which kinda made up for not managing to fit any in yesterday because I caught up a little). I’m getting a little deeper into Python, little by little. It’s tough, though, because I have to keep going back over things a lot, which means I’m constantly pausing and rewinding video. When it’s a six-hour course, that means it’s probably going to take me at least 12 hours to complete.
Music
I’ve managed to get through Angels enough that it’s all down to practice now – I know all the notes, I just have to get them flowing, which I don’t need music for, just practice.
That means I’m ready to find the next thing to learn. So far I have two classical pieces, Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi, and Angels.
I just need easy things, that’s the trick of it. Easy things that sound amazing – the Capaldi song is literally four chords except for eight bars in the middle which change everso slightly.
Other stuff
On top of all that today, I managed about 90 minutes of house work: cleaning, tidying, vacuuming etc. That probably isn’t noteworthy to many people, but it’s a lot of work for me and it left me quite shattered by the end of it.
Ended up on the sofa watching a movie for the first time in a little while (maybe a week or so), which I really enjoyed. The Apollo and equivoque chat led me back around to Now You See Me, which I haven’t seen for ages and even though this must be my third time watching it I still love it.