Happenings

  • It’s been half-term week, and it was a major heatwave here in Britain.
  • Monday and Tuesday were scorchers. We got the paddling pool out only to find it had gone mouldy, but thankfully someone nearby was selling one, so I drove over to get it. Rest of those days we just watched the kids play in the pool and grilled outside.
  • It’s been a pretty tough week parenting. Mr Four is really quite deaf now, and on a waiting list to get assessed and treated (hopefully, it is just a case of glue ear, which is treatable). But it impacting heavily on his communication, mood, and behaviour. It’s upsetting to see him like this. We have started teaching him some Makaton signs, which he really enjoys.
  • Managed to make it to the gym a couple of times this week. Mr One has finally started to settle into better sleep patterns, so my wife and I are both getting into better fitness habits in the evenings, which is great as it means we both get actual me-time (while exercising, and while the other is exercising).
  • Today was pretty nice. Made progress on a DIY project, took Mr Four out for a ride on his scooter, and baked a trio of pizzas that turned out great.
  • Spent a while configuring my server.

Links

  • This post from Herman (of Bearblog) about Resurfacing old posts was good, not just because it’s good blogging advice, but the specific posts he chose to resurface were his reflections on journaling. As a regular failed journaler, they inspired me to give it another go.
  • The “normal” response to the Social Web. I wish more people I knew had personal sites and blogs, but there’s an image problem.
  • It’s time to talk about my writerdeck. I love Veronica Explains’ YouTube channel, and have tremendous respect for anyone who sets up a computer that can pretty much only run vim.
  • The Aesthetic Pipeline To Techno-Fascism. Why are tech guys suddenly obsessed with the concept of “taste”?
  • In Defense Of The Family Computer. With computer components getting rapidly more expensive, maybe we’ll have to go back to… sharing our devices with the other people we live with?!

On this site

I’m hosted on a VPS now.

I also added a page about my Miyoo Flip. The next day the hinge on my Miyoo Flip broke.

Playing

I finally finished Shadow Of The Colossus. Flawed masterpiece? Or just not really a masterpiece. I don’t know. The ending was really good, as everyone always says. The controls and some of the boss designs sucked though.

I also played some Sonic 2 with the wife, and she kicked my ass pretty hard in the vs. mode.