Week 33 of 2026

Two basketball sessions this week, and I gave myself plenty of time to warm up before each one. Not that warming up made any difference to my jump shot. I seemed to go through streaks of makes and misses, where there were more misses than makes. Frustrating when for large proportion of those shots I'd been left wide-open. I had some new noise cancelling headphones and earbuds arrive this week. Compared to the last pair of noise cancelling headphones I had the newer ones are noticeably better. It would have been very disappointing if they weren't. I'm most pleased at how low I can have the volume when I'm used to the audio competing with the environment around me. Becka and I had been planning to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day while it was still in the cinema. I, oblivious to planetary alignments, booked tickets for Wednesday evening because there was a lot of seats available. Of course the cinema was nearly empty when there's a (partial) solar eclipse happening at the same time which…