Highlight of my day, was finding the lost thumb drive that had snuck into the lining of my laptop bag. It's the little things.

Fireworks a plenty.

I don't love ticketing platforms. Currently on my list - eventim - their identity/auth API seems to be broken.

Sounds like a win - win for Obed and the Sounders.

Just tried leaving a message for @murray.senate.gov and her voicemail is full. Keep calling. Keep leaving messages.

Get yourself the 5 Calls app, make it part of your weekend routine to call your elected representatives.

Masters writing day. Annotated bibliography. Tedious. The very fine Mr Don Letts making it bearable.

Quiches, dinner, chickpeas ready for hummus, three masters papers and an exam done. Productive weekend.

Productive Saturday. Wrote three papers for the Masters (!), prepped for a cert, helped the eldest with a bunch of Python, and now making dinners.

Listening to Don Letts from the weekend. It's the best of 2025 part 2, and it's sublime. Happy dance while making dinner.

I ordered a pre release LP in September, the US release has been delayed four times already because of tariffs and the like. :/

Watching the youngest travel home from afar. Snow in the Netherlands has severely disrupted flights, trains, and buses.

Haha. Jetlag meant zzzing through all of the fireworks.

Flying in to SEA, lovely sunset and the mountains were out.

Be safe WA folk.

Listening to this absolute banger. @theslowreadersclub.bsky.social

£3.40 for a stamp to send a card from the UK to the US! Eyewatering. ($4.50 equivalent)

Two hours left of the day, five inches/124mm of rain since midnight. #wawx #issaquah

Looks like the river gauge at Hobart, on the Issaquah Creek, is going to hit 9 feet, which puts us in Phase 4 flood. Stay safe out there. flood.kingcounty.gov/river/4/ #issaquah #wawx

When customer service works. Double billed, call, and it's fixed.

Someone is trying to sell a New Order Substance gatefold for £2000 on discogs..thats crazy.

Almost 50mm rain since midnight. It's still raining! (that's two inches)

The warm front certainly came in. Windy, very wet, and it's warm outside.

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

Gig of the year has to be Shantel at Vera Groningen last month. So much fun.

At The Neptune to see @psbhq.bsky.social

@psbhq.bsky.social safe travels and see you in Seattle on Monday!

Buying local. Holiday cards are coming from the fab Katie at Little Green Designs. I'm a multi-time customer, and her work is first class. littlegreendesign.com

@elefantrecords1.bsky.social I was so impressed with the customer care from Elefant Records. Emailed checking on the delivery status of vinyl, amidst the import/tariff craziness.

Black Friday. Support local.

I hope Don Letts has a tribute to Jimmy Cliff. Sad news.

Forest done good.

I really dislike the NYT Thursday crosswords.

I ma making leek and aged cheddar soufflé. It's either going to be incredible, or inedible. It looks and smells splendid already.

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to text with Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) during Michael Cohen's 2019 congressional hearing and may have influenced her questions. Text message time-stamp match up with hearing video reviewed by The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

@psbhq.bsky.social wish I could have made the Paradiso gig - Elfstedentocht live! In the meantime, counting the days until Seattle. Last time (pre covid!!) was an absolute blast.

Anchovies are the bomb.

Aurora from the Quah.

Ubiquiti NVR didn't come back from a scheduled firmware update. Reset and restore from backup...

Well - my early flight to Miami is cancelled. No capacity for sensible routing, and high risk of being stranded. Trip cancelled. The knock-on effects for business and leisure destinations is going to be insane.

Penalties. Again? The cruelest finish.

Not ideal. Need to score two.

Well. Sounders are Soundering.

Nouhou red today. Wrap up his season.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Thursday night. Calling my electeds.

Come on King County Elections - get them numbers out.

Watching election results.

Spent the evening with some M, DAX, Azure Graph Queries, and Azure Resource Manager API calls. Nice data, all validated, pretty PowerBI visuals.