Entries tagged with "life"

Being Stupid

I used to be healthier (didn’t we all?). I am not. To motivate myself I’m doing the endure24 event. How far can I move this blubbery body in 24 hours? I’m hoping to do 10 laps of a 5-mile forest track. I’m also trying to do it for a good cause, so if you feel like helping please chip in. (Obviously I’m going to try and over-engineer some data for it as well.)

Being Weird

I’m having great fun writing pages on the new HL (coming soon ™). I’m embracing just doing things because they’re fun and weird and because I want to do them.

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Micro-Blogging

I’m currently berries-deep in the new version of this site. It’s not perfect. It’ll never be perfect. But I’ve wanted to make a new version for over ten years now. In the meantime, to actually make sure I’m using it, I’ve added a little micro-blog updates feed to it.

It’s what Twitter used to be. Back when the textarea had a prefix of “Currently…”. It feels nice to be journalling again as well. Seeing tweets from 2006, recalling days. I’m going to miss the five plus years I didn’t have any of that. Stupid OSINT.

As for when it’ll be done: never. As for when I’ll swap this old WordPress thing over to it: by 8th June latest.

Train Book

I read a book on the train into town today. I miss reading books while on public transport.

Long-in-the-Tooth

16 years ago I took on my first “proper” job. I’d done manual labour, I’d made websites for friends and family, but 16 years ago I got chatting to someone over Twitter DMs (this brand new feature) followed by CoD4 lobbies and started working with them.

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Joinery

I spent the day building out some wood framing, ready for plasterboard with my Dad. It’s always good, learning skills that are so different to everything I do just sat on a computer. I also got to learn about the difference between joinery, and cabinetry.

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Starting

I’m going to start blogging again. No reason why, no reason why-not. A lot has happened in the last twelve months; head, wife, job, decisions. Expect lots of random things.

For now, I’m in Saundersfoot enjoying the culmination of the World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals. Take care.

Lookup

Many, many years ago I was an avid reader and writer of various fiction writing websites. There’s still links to them on this site, which shows a. how long they’ve been around and b. how out of date this site is. Recently I’ve been on a bit of binge, revisiting my past and re-reading these old stories. Which led me to a quest.

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