I just used Voicenotes.com on my phone to record various training prices from historical invoices reading them off my laptop screen, asked it to create a summary, copied into NotebookLM to sort and make a pretty table I could paste into Sheets, then tidied up the presentation.

Then asked Gemini to research three equivalent types of training from external providers, copied responses into Docs, imported Docs into NotebookLM and got a second shiny table for comparison.

Productivity through the roof.

Once it can make coffee and bring cake to the table, and make off-the-cuff wisecracks, I will be expendable.

It was a rough night. Little kid was awake in wriggling around in our bed from 4 am, although, of course, fast asleep again by 7:30 (and way past time to get up to get ready for school).

It could be a long night. Wife has just settled little kid back into bed. Big kid is coughing and snorting away, wide awake two and a half hours after going to bed. He’s started his asthma plan, and the room reeks of Olbas Oil and Vicks VapoRub.

Little kid fell asleep on my lap, as usual, watching videos of planets and being at one with the Universe.

This morning he exclaimed:

“Dad! You’re so… wide!”

Last night big kid fell asleep in his bed while wearing in-ear buds, ear defender “headphones” and an elasticated eye mask. Apparently he was “trying to be at one with myself”.

I ripped them all off him before I went to bed.

This morning he complained:

“Dad! Why didn’t you just wake me up?!?!”

Oh, and printed a couple of things I’ll need later on our new home printer - only to discover the kids have used up all the colour already printing off photos of planets.

I could use the printer at work, but it’s almost certain not to work when I actually need it to work.

Big kid always leaves his pizza crusts and asked me to make a stuffed crust instead.

I forgot all about, so just folded over the edge at the last moment before it went in the oven. It’s delicious, but looks and feels more like a pie, and no. 1 son didn’t like it at all!

Auto-generated description: A cheesy pizza with melted cheese is partially sliced on a wooden board.

Ten year old old just showed me how to do something on my phone.

I had a really poor night’s sleep, worrying about little kid.

Little kid slept in his own bed until 6 am. Hurrah!