Weeknotes 341: Slowly recharging

An exhausting week at work, back-to-back with a largely exhausting week of travel, has left me drained. I’ve spent the weekend slowly recharging with no commitments or activities and I’m almost back to normal. Three gyms, back in the rhythm. No net progress but I’ve shed the holiday weight like it never happened; an adipose no-op. For whatever reason I couldn’t face the epic space nonsense of Redemption Ark and chose to be alone with my thoughts on the treadmill instead. I am in principle still interested in it so I intend to grit my teeth and dig back in next week. I finished season three of Succession. Obviously Too Much Birthday is a straightforward classic, nicely kicking off Kendall’s spiral into self-destruction through Chiantishire and the brilliant All the Bells Say to wrap up the season. Although this season as a whole felt a bit more uneven than the previous two, the scenes with the sibs in that last episode are so well-written and well-performed that it feels like they pay…