Category: life
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Yesterday and today were blocked out as “growth days” on my calendar at work – we get a number of them per year, and if you don’t use them, you lose them. Having not used any of mine all year, I now have two per month pencilled in all the way through until Christmas. Of…
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It’s Saturday morning. The clock just ticked past 9am. You find me sitting in Wetherspoons, having just made a “traditional English” disappear. A cup of coffee is keeping me company – perched on the edge of the “table for one”. I arrived half an hour ago – after wandering past the local barber where a…
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I received an email this morning from the sister of a long-time friend. Her brother had passed away, and left instructions of the people to reach out to, and the messages to send. I was on the list. The simple message read “So long, and thanks for all the fish”. I smiled. I wonder if…
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While delving around it the loft over the weekend, on the pretence of throwing things away, I made sure to rescue at least one thing from certain doom – a twenty five year old iMac that I completed NaNoWriMo with. Wiring the Mac back up and switching it on was rather more nerve-racking than I…
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We hired a skip this weekend, and have been busy emptying the attic and the darker corners of the house into it. Twenty five years worth of boxes for cameras, televisions, video game machines, computers – along with the actual chassis of long dead computers, monitors, and endless boxes of wires, guide books, plugs, adapters,…
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After a couple of days staring at thousands of lines of code, I took the night off from pretty much everything this evening. I would love tell you that I used my time productively, but I did not – and perhaps that’s no bad thing. There’s this mania to always be busy – to always…
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Busy day ahead. After scraping myself out of bed this morning, and wandering down for a shower and shave, I discovered a box in the hallway. Amazon had somehow already managed to deliver everything I ordered yesterday. Inside the box (a box of boxes, in typical Amazon style), there is a wall mount for a…
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2026-08-07 Falling in love with the Masters of the Universe movie A few days ago I wrote that I only made it half-way through the Masters of the Universe movie before giving up and walking away – mostly on account of Jared Leto’s ridiculous portrayal of Skeletor. A couple of days later – while scrolling…
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2026-08-06 After midnight The clock ticked past midnight thirty minutes ago. I’m not entirely sure why I’m still up, but here we are. There’s a random playlist playing in the background. Just enough distraction to cause me to stop writing, listen, reminisce in my head, and not write very much at all. Gary Barlow is…
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I’ve been meaning to write something – anything – for the last several days. I just haven’t managed to start. I’m hoping that typing these few words will somehow hand crank the part of my brain that looks after suck things. I struggle to understand how I used to pour words onto the page so…
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2026-07-31 The Idiocy of Apple I bought some Apple AirPod “tips” yesterday. That’s their name for the little rubber bits that you stick in your ear. You won’t believe how long it took me to find them, given that they call them “tips” – it’s not the first word that comes to mind, is it.…
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I used to work for a small company, where most of my time was spent putting fires out. If I couldn’t figure out how to do something, there was nowhere to turn, so I ended up acclimatising somewhat. Blind panic, chaos, and fireproof trousers were very much my normal. And then we got acquired –…
