Felt like I really benefited from having last week off work, and that feeling lasted about an hour into my Monday morning. Turns out a lot happened last week so I spent most of this week trying to process change while keeping on top of my own work. I had another basketball game this week, playing for Worthing D&D White in a 64-80 loss to Shoreham Spartans. Didn't get much court time in this one, playing about 2 minutes before subbing myself out so we didn't have players with a DNP (did not…

dim light heat caressing skin rivulets running, running into puddles relaxed, two bodies in a sacred space almost touching a deep breath, a sigh eyes meeting, no words one soul reaching towards another reaching back

The American Sign Museum is ten minutes away from my house, but I'd never gotten around to a visit until my friend Sam and I were invited to type poems for guests at a bat mitzvah party there last night.The museum is bigger than I'd expected. You feel like you're walking down streets that are crowded with advertising icons and neon.Sam and I were very impressed with a display of glass panels from a Victorian artist's "specimen book." These are only about six inches across, and they show…

this was one of the, maybe, 4 weeks in the year that i felt really good physically and mentally together. i was hoping that using my little energy to go out to inspiring spaces would help me get up to a few more good weeks. we'll see, i'm hopeful after this last one! it helps my mentality and physicality that the weather is finally getting cooler. i loathe the large air conditioner units that take up my two favorite windows, so having our landlord cart those away for the season felt so freeing…

you ok? no me either. whenever I go on linkedin I just want to post “does anyone want a hug?”. That’s all anyone really needs probably. I’m not a doctor. some people probably need more, but not the people posting to Linkedin. I’d be such a shoe girlie if my feet weren’t such an odd shape. Too long, too narrow. Last week, with my talent acquisition partner, I was fighting with a spreadsheet and our recruiting software, miserably trying to open a job role for the T W E N T Y F I V E i need to…

A busy week catching up on what I'd missed while at Open Source Summit last week Mostly wrote up the main TODOs I had last week, but still need to get a lot of them thought out more and prioritised Haven't got round to my writeup of the conference I've unfortunately come down with a cold - which has got better, and thankfully wasn't COVID - but has dampened the week Got the plumber round to fix up the pipe I'd knicked, and now we've been able to have the heating on which has been nice! Had our…

Every Halloween season, I like to revisit some of the sitcoms I grew up watching in the ’90s, especially the ones that went all-in on Halloween. This year, I thought I’d group those episodes by series, revisit them, and rank them based on two very important criteria: how much Halloween atmosphere they actually have and how much I enjoy watching them again, and what better place to start than one of the great holiday sitcoms of the ’90s: Home Improvement. Oddly enough, when I think of horror and…

12th October - 18th October Impossibly warm sun shines through a chink in the seemingly endless rain clouds, catching the wings of a flock of crows in flight –I briefly wonder if one of them is the bird I saw dive-bombing a Buzzard over the fields yesterday– and lighting the first fallen yellow leaves scattered across the road like so much pirate gold. "you're the piece of gold that glitter on my soul" sings the guy from Air as though this moment is choreographed. My project didn't with the…

Dave's Probably Leaving Bearblog has me thinking. One fun thing about any given website you build is that you can convey as much or as little "tonal whiplash" through it as your heart desires. You can choose whether your most and least serious takes sit right next to each other on the same page or not. Various project types can be shoehorned into one convenient location or spread across countless standalone spaces. Articles with contrasting vibes can exist in different Internet protocols…

I laid down to run the Energy Food track from Wave III one last time. Four passes in, three of them ended by a cough at the same spot, I'd decided this was the final look. What happened instead was that my awareness got bored at exactly the part that needed attention, and I finally understood why.

Me and my 1979 Honda Civic. First car I paid for. It was a disaster. STATUS: Sitting at a computer when I'm not supposed to be TODO: Clean the inside of my car's windshield. Gross. READING: "Stolen Focus" by Johann Hari LISTENING: Saxon, "Hell, Fire and Damnation" I was planning to stay away from computers today. I've been partially successful. I'm staring at my notebooks and thinking that I'm doing it wrong. I recently bought the gorgeous and expensive Plotter, but I don't know how it fits. Or…

exhausted I'm writing from the couch on my phone. I hate typing on my phone. That's how tired I am. Today's choir rehearsal was extremely physical. Like we were doing some Cirque du Soleil type shit. I laughed a lot. Learning to relaxSpeaking of physical stuff, I started working with a new physiotherapist. I wrote about it. I really need to learn how to relax my body. For example, during choir we made a massage train. The person massaging me gasped when she touched my shoulders. "What is going…

Not sure if this is a British thing, but I love a good bivouac.53 words · 3 images

It seems like lifetimes ago when they were still a thing, but I remember way back yesteryear when a lot of times sites would have a guest book. I created a guestbook for this website some time ago but only just now got around to linking it. Feel free to browse it and sign it if you wish. Just don’t be a dick and spam. Long before social media was a thing they were interesting to read when you came across an interesting site. There are often links to similar ones. Spam wasn’t big yet. Social…

Why the cheapest punch in boxing is the most misunderstood idea in corporate strategy Nobody has ever been carried out on a stretcher by a jabWatch a boxing highlight reel and you will see the last three seconds of a forty minute argument. The overhand right. The hook that arrives from outside the frame. The moment the legs stop being legs. What you will not see, because nobody edits it in, is the punch that was thrown more times than every other punch combined. The jab does almost no damage.…

An unexpected effect of the (not so) new job: I’m rarely in Bloomington anymore. It was such a big part of my life for thirty years. Now I’m there less than once a month. So many cool things in that town but now I think, “All the way to Bloomington? In that traffic?” 😄

But first, Minuet. This is what most weekend days look like. If I'm lucky, I get to grab coffee first. A list of unfinished thoughts. People don't remember you if you don't show up COVID may be causing long-term frontal lobe damage would explain lack of higher reasoning and other BS like not signaling when you change lanes If I do drop the info sec part of my job, I'm going to have to find a team again with my accessibility responsibilities being more diverse and not application-specific We had…

Here I am again avoiding the things I don’t want to do. I don’t want to clean this apartment. I moved in and it was, not spotless but pretty close to. Now, there are dishes spread out, some in the sink some in the dishwasher some on the table. The garbage is full, a McDonalds bag is on the island that is full of garbage. The dryer is open full of clothes I left in there for a week. The washer I’ve been using as a laundry basket. There is a pile of old computer stuff laid out in front of the tv.…

19:51 - Finally home. We had a very active choir rehearsal today. Gonna rest here for a few hours.

Things have gotten busy. Pokemichi consumed my last few weeks along with helping my sister out with some efforts. I also really miss tumblr. So in that spirit, gurupanguji.com now supports micropub to reduce post friction.

Sometimes we give ourselves many options in life, just in case. One example is having hobbies in case our job doesn’t work out. And of course, on top of that, we have the feeling that we could do anything we want in life. But soon we come to the point when our job is really not what we want to do with our life, and we want something else. When we open that door of possibilities, it looks like a supermarket shelf packed with so many different things that you can’t even see what’s on it. Here,…

On the matter of the blorbos in your head, here's a piece of advice you might want to follow or disregard completely: you don't have to let them out. Let's say you want to make a game. You want to write a book. You have your OCs you love dearly1, but everything you have in mind mostly exists right there. I'm a firm believer that if you just keep on polishing an idea forever no one will ever see it, and that sucks; lately I've come to think a bit differently and question the why. I've made quite…

I’m dating again. Not with great gusto so far, and my most promising dating opportunities are ones that sit outside the swipe-focused stuff anyway. But I am having a go with a few different dating apps to see if there are any that don’t make me want to chuck my phone in the Thames. This […] The post 4 reasons I will instantly swipe left appeared first on Girl on the Net.

Spent half the week battling with an intensifying cold virus, but luckily it didn't develop in to anything more severe. Frustrated as it meant I didn't feel well enough to attend the A11y Together/Champions of Accessibility gathering on Wednesday, and there won't be another until next February. Recovered in time to watch the new film, Prima Facie, at the Royal Festival Hall. Brilliant acting by Cynthia Erivo in a deeply unsettling story that highlights the law's failures in dealing with sexual…

After a two-week holiday, I returned to work. It surprised me when several colleagues asked if I was doing okay. Apparently, I was so quiet that it sparked their concern. This is a big contrast to how I was before the self-care holiday, when I carried a lot of internal tension and easily got triggered - signs that I was heading towards a burn-out? I guess the self-care did wonders for me; I am a much more zen person now, protecting my peace.I have visited the spa quite frequently lately, yet I…

I returned from Essex on Thursday after four days in a darkened dining room scanning 79 notebooks of my dad’s diary from 1955 to 2013. As regular readers will be sadly aware, being back there is always a mix of emotions. Last week I said I felt like a ghost haunting the house (I kept thinking of Ghost Story) but it’s at least as true to say that the house haunts me. It’s rarely been far from my thoughts for the past 2½ years and I have to struggle to think of other things – because I’m so tired…

The claim that AI consumes water sounds odd if you picture a server as a box of electronics. The obvious objection is that the cooling water goes round in pipes. It returns to where it started, gets used again, and never goes anywhere. How can a conversation with ChatGPT consume it? The answer is that you can be looking at the wrong pipes. A sealed circuit carries heat away from the processors. A separate circuit can release that heat through a cooling tower, evaporating some of its water in…

A few photos from one summer evening I totally forgot to edit. I hope you enjoy them. By the way, do you see this crater kinda standing out? This effect is called golden handle. Comment via guestbook.

Trying late-season beach for fall break this year

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 2 10.3km round-trip Beautiful autumn Sunday afternoon, bright skies, warm, but not too warm, so out for a little ride to a new park along the Tiber. The Parco Marconi used to be a total tip 20 or so years ago when I sometimes had to walk my dog down here. Used needles, human crap and crap, lots of litter of all sorts of broken stuff, from fridges to bicycles. Anyway, it is just one example of the buckets of money spent by the city for last year's Jubilee and it is now a…