Reader, where did I leave you? Ah. On the train to watch the World Cup. Monday was a holiday, so we pulled an all-nighter and enjoyed watching Spain win, followed by a quest to find a full English breakfast. 大成功だった！ During the day I managed to crank out the chores including finishing a clothes shop.

Summer is well and truly here, and for the next six weeks (at least) I am going to need to sequester a supply of spare shirts in my office desk.

A decent chunk of my time at work this week went into getting last week’s plan moving. This involved a lot of talking but things are going swimmingly and I’m chuffed.

My class-load also dialled up considerably from this week: Reader, I have homework assignments, and honestly I could not be happier.

Did you know that you can comfortably fit every single weeknote and journal you’ve ever written into the context window of a big model like Fable, and ask it to spot story arcs, trends, blindspots, etc.? Over the week I did this and compared results with Z. A few highlights:

• My net-sentiment is positive trending upwards, with very rare low (and even rarer negative) sentiment. I was pleasantly surprised at this result.
• High-notes usually come from doing the hard/scary thing. Meanwhile low-notes usually come from avoiding, putting off or missing the hard/scary thing (or it being random/unavoidable).
• High-notes (and my mood index) also correlate with how much I write about the future, and while there’s no negative sentiment correlation with writing about the past, I keep picking rivalries/feuds with past-Alex.
• Food/drink directly correlates with relationships: I write about (or include photos of) food/drink when they are a proxy for meaningful time with meaningful people, and this pattern holds true across everywhere I have lived or stayed.
• So, in short: JFDI, think about the future more and continue sharing meals & drinks with good people. Maybe I’ll share more lessons in the future.

Speaking of writing about meaningful time with people, unfortunately our plans to watch Fujirock this year fell through because one day sold-out. So, instead we gathered to watch the live-streams on Friday and again on Sunday:

• The XX was great: I’d seen Jamie XX before and hadn’t realised there was more, or that my Putney flat was seconds away from the school where they met!
• Kneecap gave me goosebumps and was surreal? I’ve always wanted to see them live, and while I wasn’t there in person it was everything I hoped it would be, mosh-pits, flags and all. When The Recap finally came on I was so ready.
• Massive Attack was, well, pure art. It pushed some pretty strong emotions. Fewer words better than more for this one. Please watch the VOD.
• Unexpected highlight was Tāl Fry which I am not sure what to make of.

Saturday night we watched the Sumidagawa fireworks festival from a balcony. Felt pretty smug having a private front-row seat for one of the hottest 花火 of the year. Some very good conversations, and of course, we had Fujirock and F1 on in the background.

And also made very some good progress with a side-project.

Of sacrifice at world's end.