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.
kind note
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.
Tonight’s cooking question: can I make egg fried rice with half a kilo of rice? Should be interesting…
It’s a “Free Electricity Hour” day today. Standing poised to run all the self-cleaning cycles, boost the heating, make a coffee. Didn’t get a chance to start on making bread.
Watched the first episode of Kamen Rider on YouTube. Hopefully I can keep up with the limited availability streaming as it goes on.
Going straight from Mickey and The Roadsters to The Owl House is fine for a 3 year old, right? How about Samurai Jack?
Turns out there’s an audio book of David Tennant reading Hairy Maclary. Slowly introducing more Doctor Who into his life.
I really love it when someone’s poorly implemented a debounce or something on a text field and when typing on mobile it grinds to a halt then shoves the cursor back and finishes the laggy input.
The thing about reading a new book to your child is that sometimes you realise halfway through that the story is an allegory for acrimonious divorce and its effect on children.
“Yeah, you can have this one again, but maybe Room On The Broom after it?”
Lots to do on a bank holiday, but first some coffee and the first episode of Terminus.
Currently suffering from the medical condition known as “gardener’s back”.
Bought a bluetooth adapter for my open-backed headphones. Of course, the microphone is dogshit which makes it pretty useless for work.
Every set of bluetooth headphones I’ve tried to use for calls as had awful microphone quality. No idea if it’s a config or device issue.
Finally managed to drag my Previews order helper into the current day and make it also pull in information from other distributors since there’s less and less in Previews.
A lot of my saved searches in it were for individual creators rather than book titles, so I could see whenever Jeff Lemire and Ed Brubaker have new books out without nedeing to worry about missing order cutoffs.
That’s the first major work I’ve done on it for five years, and I left a lot of traps for myself to fall into. Hopefully it’ll be a little easier to understand next time I have to dive into it.