2026-01-05
05 January 2026
The new year has brought with it particularly cold weather but, for the first time in my life, I have acquired all the gear in one place to keep me warm: fleeces, coats, gloves, actual walking boots. …
The new year has brought with it particularly cold weather but, for the first time in my life, I have acquired all the gear in one place to keep me warm: fleeces, coats, gloves, actual walking boots. …
Christmas Eve. My old nemesis. Here we are again for round 33. I have a difficult relationship with Christmas, more so now as an adult. As a young child I enjoyed it enough. As I grew older I …
I wrapped up reading the first of Obama's memoirs this week. I probably sit slightly further to the left of Obama. But I have the privilege of being able to say that without needing to balance …
To say I slept badly last night would be categorically false. I barely slept. I was plagued with a continuous dull pain at the top of my stomach for the entire night. It meant I couldn't sleep …
Like any self-respecting adult, Christmas and the festive period does not get acknowledged by me until December. The only exception being where, as is the case this year, the 1st December lands on a …
I made a visit to London for work on Tuesday. Our client's offices are in Victoria. I'm not hugely familiar with Victoria or west London in general, work has mostly kept me fairly central in and …
My general state of mind can be readily determined by the amount of time I waste on my phone. When I'm in a poor or spiralling state of mind, I'll constantly pick up my phone and refresh personal …
Monday was my birthday. I have mixed feelings about birthdays. I'm not particularly fussed by aging I just hate being the centre of attention. There's also this strange expectation that a birthday …
Last Friday I had to travel to The Belfry resort, just outside Birmingham, for my firm's away day. When I first took a 'proper' job I didn't mind these days so much – it was just an excuse to eat …
Barely slept last night but at least I woke up to see Mamdani won the NYC mayoral election. Thank fuck. Matty Healy of The 1975 fame removed a track (Human Too) from Being Funny in a Foreign Language …
Roon ARC randomly decided to stop working. Port forwarding seems to be failing, no matter the amount of tinkering I do. So I've resorted to setting up WireGuard. Which is probably the more …
The past weekend has been a mixed bag. Friday brought disappointing news in relation to my salary at my job – no pay rise. Computer says no. My 10 years of experience is now valued at the same as …
A new season of the NBA means I make my annual promise to make the most out of NBA League Pass subscription. I half-watched the Rockets-Thunder on opening night. Loved seeing the Thunder win the …
Olive and I had the weekend to ourselves as H was away for most of it. I wound up watching Big Fan after hearing Patton Oswald on an early episode of Marc Maron's WTF podcast. I enjoyed it enough and …
Spent Tuesday and Wednesday in London for work. Having left booking a hotel until the last minute, I ended up staying at the Wilde Aparthotel ( 51.50984° N, 0.12230° W), just off the Strand and right …
Yesterday morning was spent getting a haircut followed by a trip to IKEA to pick up some new bookcases (x3 Billy) for my office. I usually loathe visiting IKEA as the way it's set up – moving in …
Spent the early hours lying in bed with ideas whirring around my head, having fallen down the rabbit hole of Tom Hull's website. It's like Aladdin's cave. This got me on to thinking about my own …