Ross Hendry

I’m sure pubs are struggling, but I got charged £5.90 for two pints of soda and lime this evening, so I’m not feeling all that sympathetic.

Getting tempted to try and make the wee one watch Mysterious Cities of Gold. Can’t take any more “trio of friends learning lessons” shows.

The wee one was sick today so we ended up watching films.

Watched the original Pete’s Dragon and there’s a lot more alcoholism and child violence than I remembered.

Of course, Disney+ immediately offers the remake, so we watch that. It opens with a deadly car crash and features guns.

Doing great on the “What’s that, Daddy?” today.

Time for some Horror at Fang Rock with lunch.

Bumped into an old friend I haven’t seen for several years…decades?

Him: “Still writing code?” Me: “Oh aye, still at it” Him: “Fuck that AI nonsense, right?”

Double whammy of pleasant morning feelings.

Strongly considering shifting my work day to include 2-4am so that when I’m inevitably awake and staring at the ceiling, I can at least run down the daily count of work hours.

The steady increase of people deciding not to stop as lights turn red, combined with people deciding that amber is the new green, doesn’t feel like a great situation.

Indulging in my hobby of putting another Doctor Who boxed set on the shelf and ignoring the accumulated running time of the ones I still haven’t watched.

Another job for today is getting all the recently delivered Kickstarter comics into komga so I can read them.

Time, once again, to spin the roulette wheel of car insurance quotes.

I’d completely forgotten that the first four pages of Asadora is set in 2020. And according to a YouTube video, it’s still only in the prologue phase?

I’ve joined the group of engineers who manage accounts using text files, grep, sed, beancount, and my own code. Because accounting is fun if you need to fix the code to see last month’s bills.

Day two of this season’s covid. Finished season 20 of Doctor Who yesterday, with the fun of The Five Doctors.

Going back in time to season 2 and The Chase.

Saw a picture of John Bishop in the tardis and my first thought was that it must been some promo for an upcoming show. Then remembered he was a companion.

Those years didn’t make much of an impression.

I wasn’t expecting The King’s Demons to be so short.

Started at a new Japanese class in town last night, and was talking about previous jobs. 私はポタトランドで働かたことがある leads to more questions.

I used to work at a place called Potatoland.

Apparently a previous student had also talked about it!

Onto the third Dune book. Is the general consensus that they’re less essential after that?

Thanks to grandparents, I’m pretty sure the wee guy has been on more steam trains than electric so far. He’ll be disappointed when he finally experiences Scotrail.

I’ve been looking at building a silent NAS, but maybe the answer is to invest in a fast mesh WiFi network and just put the box itself in the garage.

I finally finished the last Conan book the other week. I found the final novel a slog, to be honest, though maybe it was partly because it ended up being spread over short bursts of reading over several weeks.

Just the Hyborean Age history left.