Russell Davies

Stepping out

As previously discussed I'm a devotee of the horribly unfashionable and widely discredited practice of counting steps per day. For 2018 I set myself a target of 15,000 steps. I failed. I was doing OK until the middle of the year when I changed jobs and walking to and from work became just too far. Also, all that walking was really starting to eat into my time. Walking 7 miles a day takes quite a while. And, around about August, I damaged my knee.

So, here's what last year looked like:

I averaged 14,636 steps. But, realistically that's not going to happen in 2019. So, to give myself a little stretch target, I'm going to aim for 13,000.

Music for reading in bed

My 'most listened to tracks' used to be heavily skewed by stuff I listened to while working. I don't really do that at the moment so now all my top tracks are from my 'bed' playlist.

They're the things I listen to while reading in bed. Atmospheric, not too intrusive, don't make Anne complain about 'weird noises'. These are all lovely, but I don't think I could hum any of them for you.

41256 - The Final

Right, that's it. Below is the last episode of 41256. I did one a week for a year. (Minus a couple of times where I evidently forgot, which I'm going to call 'holidays'.) I enjoyed it. I thought it was interesting, but now I'm done.

I'm surprised it wasn't more popular (though I'm not sure how popular it was) but, obviously, I'm also pleased that it wasn't. If it had started to be popular then I'd have had to have stopped it, since it's full of other people's audio material. I seem to have a knack for inventing self-defeating projects like this.

Anyway. This is it. Episode 50. A sort of supercut of the previous episodes.

I'm also surprised there aren't more short podcasts yet. One day.