Think I need to start doing vocal warmups in the mornings. I generally speak very rarely so when I get the first work conversation of the day my voice tends to pack up.

Looking at the deals this year, next year is probably when I buy a ps5.

I'm supposed to be getting briefly filmed tomorrow as part of a promotional video but I expect I'll get cut either for time reasons or for looking too freakishly ugly to be suitable for advertising purposes.

Went to a news website without an adblocker.

I should go through my excessive collection of Switch games and pick things to try. Loads of things I've never played as I mainly got them for one or other of the kids.

Bacon and emmenthal panini for lunch sounds like a good idea.

My anxiety about being away from home is such that I had to check the cooker was off four times before leaving and bring all my Nintendo Switch and 3DS games with me, them being the most value-dense things I own.

A significant worry when I have to stay elsewhere overnight is that a burglar might break in and see how messy the house is.

Can't even get enthusiastic about going to a fancy curry place later.

Hi @robindlaws.bsky.social - just read a book summary in the latest Friends of Arthur Machen newsletter about Erik Satie. I knew I recognised the name and he's in the 'people' bit of the Paris Yellow King book. Thought might be of interest.

PS5 heavily discounted on Amazon but looking around, I think the only game on it I'm interested in is Astro Bot which means it's basically four hundred quid for one game.

🎶you gotta keep faith that your path will change, you gotta keep faith that your luck will change... tomorrow🎶

The piano music in One Battle After Another reminds me of the menacing piano in the recent Zelda games.

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

Reply to everyone on Reddit worrying about imposter syndrome with "you might just be crap".

That's thirty minutes now that I've been sat frozen, feeling absolutely starving but unable to go and get anything to eat.

I'm not very well, mentally, and I don't have any access to support.

So tired but there's stuff in the washing machine that can't be tumble dried so I've got to stay up.

Found this thing in a lung biopsy when I was in uni. Never did figure out what it was.

lads lads lads

Today's task is a refresh of the car playlist, including a purge of Dire Straits. The tracks are absolute hammers but they make me think of my dad which I'd ideally never do.

Burger two-ways for tea.

I'm at the can't be arsed with comparison sites for insurance renewal stage of life.

Think I'm going to have to buy a month of Lightroom. All the alternatives are a bit annoying in some way.

lol I picked up a block from a landlord sympathiser

Accidentally switched the washing machine off at the plug and realised and put it back on five seconds later and it carried on. Some big capacitors in there.

Blowtorching a microwave burger #snackhack #flamegrilled

Christ it's bastard horrible out there. I'm home and I'm going nowhere.

Ultrasound guy has spotted something on my mum's kidney so just looking up renal cancer differential diagnosis.

I should get out of the car but the sounds of impact from the rain aren't encouraging.

Never really got on with the idea of potential energy.

Must get round to playing this against myself. Set it up ages ago.

Yay, offshore meds. Daft that I've got to get these via Hong Kong when they're on the vitamins aisle in the US.

Sod it, I'm going to the shop to buy all the things.

Mad that nobody has yet invented a reliable hdmi switcher.

Bet the Bovril factory is pretty grisly. Still, good drink.

Petition to rename the Epstein-Barr virus.

Magnum x @brianbutterfield.bsky.social collab #bonbonbonbon

No tasks seem worth the effort. Struggling with the idea of getting something to eat but there'll be a queue and the food will be rubbish anyway. Rather just stick with being hungry.

kid1 is skipping lessons in school here and there and I can't say I really give a fuck. He's only doing it when he needs to.

Suppose I'm meant to watch that pluribus programme.

Looks like my works have opted for trans segregation for their facilities which is nice innit. I'll read their new bullshit in the morning and may be writing some strongly-worded emails.

The people on the phone-in saying their kids aren't allowed smartphones all have posh accents for some reason.

I need to replace a machine in work and the amount of fuss involved is insane. I've got the money, I know the one I want but the process is endless. Forms, forms, forms. Half-inclined to give the sodding money back and make do.

A sausage roll and a chicken bake is probably not optimum nutrition.

LinkedIn reply sections, good god. Talk about banality of evil.

Boo.

I need to hire a Cato who covertly gives me ailments that need brief hospital stays to get me out of work.

Another bloody day of having to get out of bed.

Got to go to the pub and play a board game in a bit but I'd much rather go to the pub and read :(