/now, 26th October 2026
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(This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too.)
What's happening?
I haven't updated this page for a few weeks because...
π₯ I've spent most of the last month or so dealing with medical issues. I had a modest cold for a bit, then my wife - who is immunocompromised and occasionally very vulnerable to seasonal illnesses - got very poorly with cytomegalovirus. Two ambulance rides, a crazy Sunday where we spent six hours on an observation ward only to be sent home only to then be urgently called to go back in at 10:30pm, and eleven nights in hospital followed. She was discharged ten days ago now and is definitely recovering well, but she is still recovering rather than fully recovered.
βΈοΈ Everything else - work, socialising, reading, watching, family - was paused. While Michelle is still recovering it feels like we're in slow motion, like we're remembering how to get back up to speed. It'll come.
πͺ I think my weird way of coping with a lot of this has been to search for cheap Prince records and CDs. By my count I've bought maybe 14 Prince or Prince-related records over the past month, almost all of them a pound or two. Driving back from hospital on my own at 10pm on a random Thursday night singing Holly Rock by Sheila E very loudly has been an excellent salve. Recommend it.
πΏ I've listened to a lot of the new albums by Bodega, The Avalanches, and Four Tet. But I'll save my thoughts on those for somewhere else at some other time.
πI picked away grudgingly at Brighton Rock by Graham Greene and was very glad to finish it. I prefer when he does comedy rather than heavy-handed rigidly constructed drama.
π΄ I usually do half an hour on an exercise bike at 6:30am Monday through Thursday. I didn't have the opportunity to do that for most of October. I'm really enjoying doing that again. Good for the soul.