Things I learned this week, in no particular order:

I can only listen to so much audio fiction before I want something else, input-wise.
Which means I went out to discover some non-fiction podcasts, and that was quite successful. So here are three podcasts that I thoroughly enjoyed: You are not so smart, which is about the weird things your brain does so you can better delude yourself; Training Beta, which is interviews with climbers about climbing and training (I figured if my ass is stuck on the couch for hours on end, I might as well think about getting it up a wall); and Futility Closet, which is about forgotten stories from history (and has the coolest logo - who could resist a penguin with a monocle and a tophat?).

If I have interesting stuff to listen to, I can spin for a longer time (duh, who'd have thought it, right?) and I can manage up to a kilometer in a day. That, however, will eat up all the workday, and I'll be totally tired in the evening - it's not a really sustainable pace if there is anything else to happen as well, such as keeping on top of emails and other stuff, or running the rest of my business.

Also spinning-related - having an actual piece of goal yarn works better for me than checking against a chart, plus, as an added benefit, these reference snippets on a card can be filed later on for reference in case of similar projects in the future (where I'll be a lot, no make that a huge lot, smarter about calculating).

Third Time's the Charm seems to actually work, and - as I sort of said yesterday - tenacity and stick-to-it-iveness through the suckitude of getting your face kicked by archaeotechnic mishaps is key. At least the current status of the last batch of yarn is "suitable, and work is progressing well". Whew. Might be we'll actually make that deadline.

In all that stress with the spinning and exploding project and so on, I realised that my dieting phase has made me completely quit the habit of stress-induced eating, which is really, really nice. On a half-related note, doing a pullup or chinup is much easier on an actual bar that is easy to grip, not swaying because it is hanging on ropes like a swing, not ice-cold and not rotating than trying it on things that are not really bars, or swinging, or rotating, or ice-cold, or whatever. (Which means I did manage to do my very first pullup - something I've wanted to be able to do for years. Decades, even. Yay!)