Happily Imperfect

Draft post Edit post Schedule post. Post date arrives, post appears, re-read post, spot spelling error. Every. Damn. Time

The sudden death of my father, taken ill and gone within a matter of days, felt less like an event and more like a subtraction. Something essential removed without warning, without preparation, without any sense of proportion. One moment the world held its usual shape, familiar and dependable in ways I had never really questioned. […]

At least that’s my guess from looking at all the single page views all across my blog, in a somewhat random manner.Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?Given I willingly publish my content to the public World Wide Web, can I really complain?If I chose to, can I opt-out? If so, how? It’s […]

As with most Apple apps, Reminders is all I really need, except when it isn’t. One of the default “dates” is “Next Week” which is fine, but I’d love it to be Project aware as right now I have 13 Reminders for today, 8 of which I can’t do until Thursday. Yeah yeah, select the […]

🤷‍♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched Up next will be For All Mankind, and excited for the return of Criminal Record. 🎧 Listened 🩻 Health 👨‍💻 Tech 🗓️ Next Week

Go away! Jack is on the mend so we are heading out for a wee visit to the playgroup that Becca volunteers at, they are having a fundraiser, bouncy castle, stalls etc. There aren’t that many local options around here, not indoor. It’s not that we don’t mind the rain, more that he’s still not […]

Over the course of last week I’ve spent a lot of my free time on my novel. Pulling in pieces half written, getting the flow sorted, adding a new character and more. It’s all in my brain, and so many little thoughts are firing I struggled to get to sleep. Planning to put it aside […]

At work — Weekly reports, prep for next week, to do lists updated. At home — tidying up some old files/folders, switching energy suppliers (bye Scottish Power, hello Octopus). And even managed to nip out for lunch with a beautiful woman! (My wife!)

The advantage of being awake since 4am is that my brain tends to find things to do to fill the time. Notably I wrote several thousand (just shy of 9k) words today, although it helps that I already had some ideas in mind and had starting points drafted so it was mostly just free writing […]

Wrote a long post you’ll see here next week. Found some cool indie.web sites (more on those later). Looked into RSS+Newsletter combined apps thanks to Jason Snell. Morning!!

For those in the UK, some nostalgia. Via Feeling Listless, a website that lets you select a channel and a region, then the clock of your choice. Warning: you will lose hours of your day — ok, maybe minutes — at Project Pendulum.

Been a while since I had one of these but, as I still read many RSS feeds, I thought it worth replicating one here, needs a prune and a few additions but I’ll try and keep it up to date as I continue to (re)discover blogs again.

For a long time, the Archives page of my blog has been pretty bland. A clickable array of each year and month that I’ve posted to this site. I’ve given it some spit and polish and now it offers a little more interactivity, a few more ways to unveil the legacy posts (for whatever they […]

The first grass cut of the year. Overdue by a couple of weeks but the weather didn’t play ball. Other excitement, I’m building an actual app (following on from today’s Musing).

This may be a very niche post as it’s entirely about something I built for me, for this blog, and the way I want it to work. That said, it’s also a bit about the fallibility of AI and the human(s) who operate them. Posting a Note Since restarting the Notes/miniblog part of this site, […]

Regular working day today, productive but of COURSE, after 27 seasons in one day yesterday, today has been lovely and sunny. Plenty of garden chores to get too, but need a dry weekend soon, please Mother Nature!

🤷‍♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched 🎧 Listened 🩻 Health 👨‍💻 Tech 🗓️ Next Week

Not being religious, teaching Jack that today is mostly about chocolate is going down well. But then he’s 4, everyday should be chocolate day according to him!

Orion (the spacecraft part of the Artemis mission), successfully managed the Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) Burn. This was the critical one to fully escape Earth and head towards the moon. If it had gone wrong, mission aborted and Orion brought back to earth. Phew!! Track it all here.

I was a technical writer geek for many years, so I know full well about em (and en) dashes, and why they are called that, but what I hadn’t ever pondered was how they are used, especially in fiction. As ever 99% Invisible opened my — I was going to say eyes but it’s a […]

A couple of weekends ago we all headed down to London for a few days down London. Ostensibly it was to catch the Mundo Pixar exhibition, but we thought we’d extend it out a couple of days to make it more of a mini-break. Thursday So it was we came to find ourselves in a […]

🤷‍♂️ Life Quiet week after the madness of London. Mostly work during the week, including a trip up to Blairgowrie (which I’ll repeat on Monday as well), which means a night in Vera by myself which then means some time to watch a movie (see below!). This blog has gotten a polish, a new front […]

Jack awake at 5am with a cough. Headed through to comfort him and get him a glass of water. He sat up, took a drink, and was asleep again before his head hit the pillow. Meanwhile my brain is now firing on all cylinders, so here I am. Updating my Reminders, making notes, doing digital […]

After no amount of faffing (and there is still more faffing I want to do but I can do that in the background), the new look for Happily Imperfect has arrived. Nothing radical, but a subtle shift here and there, a new font, a new logo, and a new colour scheme. Just enough to freshen […]

In rethinking where I publish my content Elliott Richmond captures my thoughts pretty well on this topic. So well that I won’t bother saying anything more, just go read it if you are (like I was) re-assessing the where of the what you produce.

I’m slowly tweaking this website to the way I want it, learning a little more about the back end of WordPress than I’d hoped to have needed but so far it’s getting close to where I want it to be (until I change my mind, again).

I’ve had a running list of apps that I’ve used on my various Macs over the years, I’ve mostly just copied and pasted the post and updated things as and when I change my ‘system’ (god I hate that term). Then I stumbled upon this App Defaults post and thought it would be a good […]

tldr; there is no such thing. I recently bemoaned the fact that having not used my printer for several months, when I did need to use it, it was nothing but a pain. Admittedly this is my own fault but it’s a frustration none the less. Whilst articles like this exist, the fact is that […]

A long time ago I used to maintain a miniblog alongside the longer pieces. I’ve been toying with starting it up again and, well here it is. Shorter reactions, commentary etc, which may or may not end up being longer pieces. Let’s see how long this notion lasts!

🤷‍♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched Not had much time to sit and watch (I like to single task when watching TV/Movies). 🎧 Listened 🩻 Health 👨‍💻 Tech 🗓️ Next Week