Weeknotes 2026 W28: Home troubles

These week­notes are brought to you live1 from the Barbican. Quick bits For no discernible reason, my to-do list had the item “retractable baguette” on it. I’ve had just about no time to continue with game development. I miss my desk setup. I have totally converted to Actual. I’m not going back to YNAB. I’ve even canceled my subscription! London bits: London has a remarkably high density of people with Metallica T-shirts.2 The taste and especially the smell of the tap water is different in London. I had a similar observation when I moved to Berlin: it took me a year to get used to Berlin’s water. It’s so nice to have English-language book stores in London. In Berlin there were only a handful, and the English-language sections of regular book shops consistently made me sad. I adore Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures in Tate Modern. I paid my TV licence. The licence type says “colour,” because this is the 21st century and colour TV is the norm. (I have never seen a monochrome TV in my…