Recursive Words
The life and times of a work-from-home software and web developer as he fights a house, four women, two cats, idiocy, apathy and procrastination on an almost daily basis.
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Back when I was at primary school, we each wrote in a book each Monday with our news of the weekend – accompanied by a picture. The teacher would typically help write one or two sentences, and we would copy what they had written. I thought it might be fun to title this post similarly,…
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While tidying up in the hallway last night I discovered an envelope with my name on it tucked down the side of the window in the hallway. An undelivered birthday card from earlier in the week. Upon opening the card I discovered not one, but two Amazon vouchers. Here’s the crazy thing – I have…
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Where does the time go? Where did the week go? Somehow it’s already Thursday morning – or rather, it will be when I get up in a few hours time – after I go to bed. Oh – while I think of it – for those that didn’t realise, yesterday’s post – “1973” – was…
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Time is a funny thing. We treat it with such immense, heavy-lidded gravity, yet when you strip away the calendars and the clock-watching, a “year” is nothing more than a record of how many times a damp, slightly confused ball of mud has managed to complete a lap around a fairly ordinary main sequence star…
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It’s 10am on Sunday morning, and the house is unexpectedly quiet – which makes me wonder what kind of shit-show is about to unfold. The bathroom renovation is still a skeletal mess of exposed pipes and broken promises, and the kids are still holed up somewhere or other scrolling a thousand TikToks. A few weeks…
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The bathroom still isn’t finished. It’s still nowhere near finished. We’ve been without a washing machine, a shower, or a downstairs toilet for a month now. I’m not going to name and shame the company involved. You can imagine how unimpressed we are though. In spite of the on-going shit show, I would like to…
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I woke a little after 7 this morning, told the radio to shut-up, then fell back asleep. I don’t remember what I dreamed about during the next few minutes – but I remember wishing I could return to the story when I woke the second time. After gazing at the wall for a while, a…
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If there is a creator in the universe, he/she/it has obviously noticed my occasional dissent, and started making moves to put me in my place. The electrician that visited this morning to finish re-wiring our bathroom – the bathroom that will be heading into it’s fourth week of construction next week – somehow managed to…
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It’s been three years since I last took any time off sick – which is remarkable, I suppose. I finally caved in this morning – after catching a horrible cough and cold from my daughters – and checked out of work for the rest of the day (not before I logged in and pushed several…
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After getting up this morning and feeling decidedly second-hand (thanks go to my children for bringing the latest round of the lurgy home), I fired up my work computer and posted a note to the wider team that I would answer any immediate questions and then sign off for the day. Only that’s not what…
Recursive Words 