2026-02
- A- left for Colombia on Wednesday evening. I’m gritting my teeth because of that-part-of-the-world events but I’m really happy she’ll be able to spend time with her parents for their golden wedding anniversary.
- Not unrelated to this change in routine, I managed to lock myself out. Fortunately our kind downstairs neighbours kept the kids warm and entertained while 1st Metro Locksmiths performed open door surgery.
- I met Murray for lunch on Thursday - a restorative catch-up over falafel, chips and Hibiscus tea at Palmyra’s Kitchen.
- My brother visited at the weekend. He played a lot of Stardew Valley with N- while I took F- to music centre. We sheltered from the cold for most of the rest of the weekend, dipping in and out of various third-round FA Cup matches on a plethora of seemingly unrelated media streaming services.
- I’ve been pretty impressed with my new desktop computer - a GEEKOM A6. It’s very fast, running test suites for a couple of projects I’m working on at least as fast as my M2 Macbook.
- I was up-and-running with my emacs config, Dropbox and 1Password pretty quickly. I also grabbed a couple of Greg’s amazing desktop images. The painful part has been video conferencing. Google Meet makes the fans spin in both Firefox and Chrome, while Pop doesn’t allow screen sharing (something to do with “Wayland” 🤷♀️). To be fair, none of this stuff works particularly well on OS X either.
- I watched an episode of Camden on Disney+ - in particular the one featuring The Roots. I remembered reading in an old interview that they’d lived on the Queen’s Crescent while working on Things Fall Apart and this episode confirmed it was above the (pretty good) Blue Sea Fish Bar. As A- will confirm, I bore anyone who’ll listen about my “campaign” to get them a Blue Plaque. The letter writing continues.