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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?
π Every six months or so there's an intense reporting period for one particular client. We've just completed week seven of eight of this half-year run and boy am I glad it's almost done. It's precise, mechanical-but-not, very stressful, and not-really-insight. Gratifying to see it conclude.
βοΈ We've had the second heatwave of the year so far. It broke heat records. It was deeply deeply unpleasant...
π ...partly because it was too hot to exercise even at 6:30am. I usually do 30 minutes on a static bike every morning; this past week I did zero minutes. Made me feel slightly gross.
π©· The lovely team at omg.lol announced a hefty but overdue price increase, offering the chance to buy a load of upfront time now to mitigate that increase. I've taken up the offer and am subscribed through to 2031 (!) but even at $50 a year I think the service is worth it. I love their Mastodon instance, and the DNS routing is so simple that I point all my domain traffic there.
π§βπ§βπ§βπ§ Had an unexpected Sunday at a family fun event where we ended up seeing loads of the family - parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, niece, nephew, and aunts. I love those sorts of unplanned spontaneous get togethers. Even managed to sneak in an ice cream.
πΏπ¬π§ - I've mostly spent the week listening to this compilation about Britpop that isn't necessarily just the big Britpop hits. It's more about where Britpop started, the general background, the little bands that didn't make it, the origins of the ones that did, the deflation, the pomp, and the hangover. Enjoying it a lot.
πΊ For whatever reason we're in the depths of rewatching a load of old stuff rather than trying much that's new. I'm really loving Arrested Development after watching it way too often and then leaving it for over ten years; our current Seinfeld rewatch focusing on the lesser-watched later series has also been fun. The only newish thing I'm enjoying is Star City, the For All Mankind spinoff focusing on the Russians where all the actors are British. The communist sixties aesthetic makes it feel like some long lost kitchen sink drama. Adore it.
π I raced through Joe Dunthorne's Children of Radium, a family history where he discovered his Jewish grandparents' story of fleeing Nazi Germany was a little more complicated due to the fact that... his grandfather produced chemical weapons. A very short, very eye-opening book about the stories we tell ourselves to keep ourselves sane.