Some mornings… you just gotta make a whole damn litre of coffee.
(for iced coffee purposes, of course; and definitely not just for me!)
Kind: Notes
Hot Dog Mess
Demmy would like to know why I haven’t turned off the UK’s heatwave yet. 🥵
Iced coffee and air con
Iced coffee and air con. Possibly the only things that’ll keep me sane, working in the UK’s current heatwave (especially with the schools closed and kids sent home!).
F-Day plus 130
A hundred and thirty days since we got flooded out of our home, and remedial works are starting to ramp up. Today an electrician, tracing a fault that’s developed in the wiring, cut a hole through a wall to repair it and threw up so much dust that it’s hard to see anything!
I was nearby, helping a restoration company assess the damage to the ride-on lawnmower that was in the garage and whose motor hasn’t started since (the garage saw some of the deepest water that hit us), when I heard the fire alarm and went to check on them. All is well: we don’t need to add ‘fire’ to the list of disasters befalling our house this year!
Bus LAN
Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these…
Theatreland Double Takes
Hanging out in London’s theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt…
Note #29501
The hours of queuing pays off! Let’s go!
West End Live queue
Back of the queue for West End Live. It’s gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it!
Note #29497
Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don’t wait up!
F-Day plus 125
125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.
Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I’m optimistic that perhaps, at last, reconstruction work is almost ready to begin.
It’s a long, slow process. And there’s clearly a way to go. But it’s good to see progress happening.
Note #29482
🎶 It starts with sausage,
A hot dog in a bun.
One simple sausage,
Put some mustard on one…
Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious‘s colours reminiscent of a hot dog?
The chair guardian
I guess it’s sweet that the dog has decided that I’m not to leave my home office without her noticing.
But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she’s going to get her paws run over!
Tango Two
Making another attempt at learning to tango, this time at a more-beginner, more-local class. It’s still super hard but he makes me question whether I even know how to walk, let alone dance, but I love it so much!
Remembering the 90s Web
This morning I had a lovely meeting with Andreas Marakis, who’s researching the sociological impact of the Web of the 1990s on people who experienced it first-hand.
I’m seeing more and more interest in this period – even, surprisingly, among people too young to be nostalgic about it – as the countercultural “web renaissance” tiptoes out of the shadows and encourages newcomers to take their first steps in building their own Web identity with HTML, CSS, and (maybe) JavaScript.
Anyway: chatting to Andreas was great and it reminded me of quite how grateful I am to have gotten to experience a lot of these seminal technologies when they were at their newest and most-experimental.
F-Day plus 115
115 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what’s beneath and whether it’s stable enough to lay a new floor on top of. Also, somebody’s coming around to quote for the laying of new floors (and we’ll see if their numbers line up with those estimated by the insurance company).
