As of today, some restrictions are loosening up in Ireland: • The 5 km travel restriction has been eased so that people can travel anywhere in their own county *or* up to 20 km from home to allow for some cross-county travel. • People from two households can meet outdoors in public, but not in private gardens. Otherwise, people are still not to visit other households except for...

I wake up from my first night of sleep with the plywood panels under my mattress. The support is much better! There’s only a slight tightness/soreness in my lower back when I get out of bed. The weather is still cold, with highs in the mid 40s F / high single digits C. There’s another short sleet/hail shower in the afternoon, but then the sun breaks through the clouds, so I take the opportunity...

It’s another day of moody weather with occasional blasts of sleet/hail throughout the day. My focus for today is to review a section of material in my CMA study programme and then take some practice tests. The way the programme is set up, you have to score 86% on 50 randomly generated multiple choice before you can move to the next section of lessons. There many tricky, counter-intuitive...