Category: life
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After leaving home mid-morning and stopping at an oddly soul-less rest area en-route, we arrived in Hay on Wye early in the afternoon. Against expectations – while wrestling with a navigation app on my phone that seemed intent on navigating us backwards towards our destination, we somehow navigated directly to the front door of the…
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For the last several years – since the children were old enough – we have escaped for a long weekend in the spring to visit a European city. Just the two of us. An escape from life, work, and whatever else for a few days – walking city streets, and wandering around museums, galleries, and…
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I’m watching the minutes tick down at the end of a three-day weekend and find myself wondering where the time has gone. In truth, it’s been a fairly quiet weekend. Sometimes, quiet is good. I spent much of the weekend recording content for YouTube—test-flying in-development aircraft for software developers, doing “first looks” at various other…
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A few months ago I found myself sitting in the dark of the junk room in the dead of night, writing a blog post, and wondered how many other people were doing the same thing. I started wondering if there might be some way we could be somewhere on the internet together – being present…
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While walking home from town earlier today I happened upon a huge unwanted soft-toy of an elephant, sitting quietly at the end of somebody’s driveway, with a cardboard sign propped against it with the word “free” written on it. I’m not quite sure why, but it really affected me. The elephant had such a hopeful…
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While everybody else was doing other things this evening I found myself spending a rare evening with my youngest daughter – just the two of us. I was pretty determined we should spend some time together, rather than fall into the all-too-common rut of her sloping off to her bedroom to chat with friends on…
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After conducting all manner of covert experiments in recent days and weeks – driven by a creeping disdain for the continued and increasingly brazen commoditisation of readers by the major online publishing platforms – I’ve pulled the trigger on a somewhat seismic change. My personal journal – recently called “Recursive Words” – is leaving Substack.…
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While tinkering with something on the internet this evening – and shaking my head at my own idiocy when it comes to not only finding rabbit holes, but actively digging them – I started reading old blog posts. Snapshots of my life from years gone by. While reading, I happened upon a post from the…
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How is it that if you look away for a few minutes, several days hurtle past? I guess it was a short week anyway – following the Easter long weekend – but still… it feels like I’ve been out of the loop forever. Last weekend we were invited to visit some wonderful friends, and spent…
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Every day seems to crash into the next at the moment. A never ending trudge towards nowhere in particular. Somehow almost a week has passed since I last wrote. Life keeps happening. Or rather, work keeps happening. I’ve been parachuted into a sizeable project that I have no real part in, and have been on…
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When I write for the blog, the words have recently started out in a note taking application called “Obsidian”. I like it primarily because it writes in plain text. When starting a new post, I invariable name the file with the date, and then the name of the day until I think of something better.…
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I fell down an internet rabbit hole this week. After posting my frustrations with Substack’s increasingly steep slide towards becoming a walled garden, a number of people got in touch – relating their annoyance too. Substack used to be simple. Online newsletters with email subscriptions. Then they added comments, likes, notes, chat, and all manner…
