Pro tip: when opening a shipping container, you open one door first. Because science.
Pro tip: when opening a shipping container, you open one door first. Because science.
Turns out I should have brought at least some of my coffee tools to our temporary home. It’s a much smaller place but there’s nothing like the drink you learn to make yourself. For now, a single cafetière will have to do.
£215 million for a football player? Utter nonsense.
“Those who speak, don’t know; and those who know, don’t speak.”
Just went to Google Maps and suddenly North Wessex Downs has disappeared.
Michael Parkinson died!?
It’s frustrating to feel good about the new photo challenge and then be met with two broken parts of Micro.blog:
A September heatwave just before we leave. One last “fuck you” from the inlands.
Using the same trick as last time and bookmarking the Photoblogging Prompts to give me quick access to them outside of Gluon. 📷
It’s great to see that the folks at Hobinichi have expanded their ordering system to include international customers.
I have picked out my planner for next year — giving the “Cousin Avec” a whirl this time — and look forward to Friday when orders become available. 📔
I’ve been looking at some of the Hello pages linked to by Alastair Johnston. It’s been several months since I first read his introduction and the appeal has only grown stronger.
10-degree night forecast for Thursday into Friday. Autumn is keen to get here and I am so happy about that.
I’m feeling chatty on the timeline because I’m about to post an away note — as ever.
This is the kind of developer-hostile nonsense that too many customers and users are either unaware of, or to which they are wilfully ignorant.
Try to remember this the next time you decide to wave the flag for the people in charge (vendors, hosts, etc).
Pixelfed has a whole separate website for a blog and yet I still can’t easily find who it actually is that makes this product.
Disclaimer: I don’t need to know. Their publicly available information should be better, even if I am the only person who cares about this sort of thing.
Between the third episode of The Last of Us, the tenth episode of Andor, and the finale of Stranger Things 4, can all of the folks making high-fiction TV shows take a break.
Just calm down ok. 📺
Every now and then my mind tells me, “Look! We have An Opinion. Quick, tell everybody!” and I’m like, “haha no not today satan”.
Finished season 4 of Stranger Things. Like a punch to the chest. Excellent television, from top to bottom. 📺
Catching up on Stranger Things. The end of episode 4, of season 4, “Dear Billy” is uh… a lot. 📺
The “Focus Mode” for iA Writer is pretty good, and in fullscreen on this 24-inch monitor really gets the trick done. Typing flow-state feels so good.
After the four-month gap in journalling, which was bad, it has become increasingly clear that any work to which I commit towards the goal of including greater intention in my day-to-day life is always worthwhile.
That listless feeling? It is due almost entirely to a lack of intention.
I have a text file open in iA Writer, “Digital planning”. In it is a list of various random thoughts for outlining my collection of digital assets, resources, and so on. At the top I left myself a note:
TRANSFER THIS TO NOTEBOOK — NO MORE PERSONAL NOTES BEGIN DIGITALLY
This idea is compelling still, despite months of inactivity regarding the task. I believe the space between the physical notebook and the subject of the work, the digital objects, will provide the necessary separation for making good decisions towards the goal of maintaining focus and clarity of thought on a regular basis.
I wrote in my journal last night and this morning. Having not done so for four months I can confirm: making that gap was a bad decision.
Not only am I fully re-establishing this journal, I am also working on introducing at least one other into my routine; the original for work, the other non-work.
-> make quick to-do list for right now
-> anxiety recedes