Stating the obvious today.
I got sidetracked today, thinking about how to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.
I was going to write something on Facebook, but Nick was a blogger and so this belongs here. I heard this afternoon that my dear friend Nick Booth died yesterday after a fall at the weekend. It’s not right. It shouldn’t be like this. We ought to have been celebrating his 60th birthday next month….
Back to the candles I went for a run this morning, because I was reminded, by a slight deterioration in my mental health, that I need to do physical and manual work as much as thinking and making digital artefacts. So I just gave myself to whittling down some of these candles, chipping a bit…
a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included 10:21 – : After 20 years of being trained to use web-mail, I think I might be ready to slouch back to something desktop-based (mainly because multiple accounts with different providers). What are you using, cool kids? This is an experiment…
I’m on the train to London and trying out Wordland on my iPad. All seems good. The editor box is left-aligned rather than centred, but I can live with that – maybe it’s an update that I haven’t noticed because I haven’t logged out on my desktop machine yet 🙂 I’m doing another round of…
OK, so the answer to the question of whether I work on Sunday was “yes, kinda”. There’s a reason for the sabbath. At a practical level it’s about unwinding and connecting with people we care about. Today was my son’s birthday and I’m glad I had a good long chat with him. But I did…
Here we are again, then. 48 feels so much nicer than 47, 47 is an unwrangleable prime, it’s great to be 2x2x2x2x3. My 16th birthday (feels like yesterday) was a third of the way here. My mood is tempered by my need this morning for emergency dental treatment. The pain has been creeping up on…