Had a work check in with the previous Seller / Co-Founder of the company we bought, to smooth things over, after a series of tense email exchanges between them and one of my peers. I kind of shrugged and said – don’t worry about him – he has good days and bad days. I never know which version I’m going to get, and I don’t get too worked up about it. And trust me, I have other peers to deal with – who are the same, so I’m used to it. Don’t worry about it, life is too short. The fact is, I’m struggling to care about all these territory marking, posturing actions. Life is just too short. I really need to get a new job. But I wonder if this will be better elsewhere. I think I’m just so over it with this corporate bullshit. Shame I’m no where near “FIRE”.

Did some light running – hill repeats (3KM total) – part of last week’s Garmin coach program. I had pulled forward a set of intervals from this week, and pushed the relatively low volume ‘hills’ to this week while the kids had chess club. So at least I can still do some running per my Garmin coach programme, but also follow my physio’s guidelines. Cooled down with my hip rehab exercises, which I think seem to be helping?

Song of the day “Something Just Like This”.

Had our usual post-chess club meal. The kids went to bed relatively quickly. Then when I was tidying up and wanted to put a book back into F’s bedroom, I noticed the kids together blocking the door, and discovered they were secretly playing the Switch. I *knew* they had found my latest secret hiding place, and were probably playing it last night when I checked in and couldn’t find it in its hiding place (but then mysteriously found it back in its place this morning…).