2026-08

Sprinkles of good news (the arrest of “Prince” Andrew, the sort-of-overturning of the palestine action proscription) this week to compliment the improving weather and early signs of spring.

I went to my first Green Party meeting on Wednesday night after joing up last year. It was a more serious debate than I’d expected (and apparently this is somewhat unusual) but the high spirits and diversity of the members attending made me feel quite hopeful.

I had a pretty productive week at work and enjoyed doing a bit of prototyping/data analysis again. But I’m continuing to struggle with the current state of the industry. I spent a bit of time on lobste.rs again. It’s less slop-ridden than elsewhere but still not that enjoyable. I’m thankful my RSS feeds keep coming up with uplifting things to read, and James does the same in one of our Slack channels. I think I just want Computation Club back. And the time before all this happened.

A- bought me a laser-cut MDF old west saloon kit from AQS Games to sit alongside the two scratch built buildings I’ve made for my slowly-expanding Spaghetti Western town. It was quite good fun to put together, although I think laser-cut plywood would be nicer to work with - the MDF absorbs glue like a sponge so you have to work quite quickly when gluing things together. I’m looking forward to getting them painted up and eventually playing a game of Dead Man’s Hand with the kids.