BBC News stop spoiling the Formula 1 results before the highlights are broadcast on Channel 4, you cucking funts.

also look what other cool thing I found in the loft 😍🥲 it was a bit crumpled but a little bit of ironing made it not too bad. I need to put this up somewhere...

I did a rough count of Lego sets I've built, photographed, dismantled and organised so far. 72! x_x I estimate there's around another 10 amongst the residual mess of bricks sprawled over the dining room table, but I'm now at the point where there are no instructions or boxes left. So it gets tough.

TRIPTUNES RIDE MACHINE !! 🌠 Blitz Lunar / @iridescentaudio.bsky.social blitzlunar.bandcamp.com/album/triptu... #KirbyAirRiders #Digifu #カービィのエアライダー

Lego sorting has absolutely wiped out this month. But it's getting closer to done. Just 20 or more incomplete sets left now, to try and complete if possible, photograph and disassemble into bags. I cannot believe how much lego we have, it is wild.

Me: personally I think rights for queer folks matter, they should be able to live their lives how they choose and express themselves freely without intimidation or threats to their safety, and be afforded the same respect and dignity as anyone else. Facebook: 😠😠😠 wot about women you misogynist pig!

arrived and checked in at the hospital, now waiting in the radiology department... a lil anxiety beginning to bite. I could be waiting an hour yet. *twiddles thumbs*

just ate my last thing. only two days and I'm already fed up of plain white bread 😂 at least i got some tuna and scrambled eggs in the mix today, and some rich tea biscuits. but that's all i have been living off of. one black coffee tomorrow morning with my steroids, then fasting before MRI taimu~~

I need to stop idly commenting my opinion under Facebook posts by pages out of boredom, because holy jesus, what the fuck is that? It has got me fantasising about reducing my internet presence to last.fm scrobbles. Humanity is actually dreadful, what ever is the point in us?

Last day of eating normally. Next three days I am limited to a "low residue prep diet" of white bread, white pasta, white rice, peeled potato, chicken, white fish, eggs, black coffee & water, to get my bowels in condition for MRI scanning on Wednesday. No dairy, no fruit, no veg.

God what a day. The lego situation opened pandora's box. In a quest to find missing lego, the loft had to be half-emptied; now stuff is scattered all around the house. A lot of it is junk and would've been gotten rid of years ago if it was my decision. I think/hope finally this is the tipping point.

Test results arrived. No viruses. Normal B12, folate, iron, kidney, pancreas & liver function, but low albumin & raised CRP & platelets, all likely Crohn's related. Calprotectin is 718; >600 "suggests (Crohn's) disease". And I'm Vitamin D deficient. I should try goin outside sometime! MRI next week.

Another 7 hour day spent making up Lego sets from a massive pile of bits. Getting somewhere at least ~ about a dozen sets rekindled. Still many more but it feels good to finally do this. Fantasising about all of the extra space in the house like Marie Kondo. It has been nostalgic, too. Lego is cool.

There is currently lego sprawled all over the dining room table and in boxes, as attempts are made to reconstitute it all into full sets. It is one hell of a job. it took me all of yesterday to remake one set to 99%. Stuff that hasn't been touched since the 90s - some of it now valuable.

I had an early night last night, folded and went to bed just before 9. When I woke up I knew it would be early so I put my head back down. Woke up a second time, I am wide awake and rested. It is 2:52. Fuck these meds man.

Pred's beginning to make me feel shitty. It took a while but side-effects are intensifying. TMI: Oily face, soft/smooth skin elsewhere, change in body odour, tired a lot, not sleeping well (moving to GMT didn't help), palpitations, constipation, vision changes. But, it's doing the job...

The new Tame Impala has burrowed into my cranium and is on repeat in my head. Love it love it love it. youtu.be/xnP7qKxwzjg?... Silent Light from Chrono Trigger is still my #1 #spook tune tho, not sure that crown can be taken.

Noticed recently how defensive people can become if you say you are saving/don't want to spend money. Some people seem to take it as a slight against them personally that you're being careful, especially if they are aware that you have money you could be spending and are simply choosing not to.

Gotta be honest this was a serious slog the last few days. I have palpitations. Easier day tomorrow but feeling accomplished at least.

Love it when the clocks go back, me. I get a whole extra hour in bed, meaning I wake up at 4 o'fuck clock and scroll my phone for three hours instead of two. I will be finished by about 8 this evening.

Beautiful. Plaid Cymru battered them.

Spending the afternoon mass converting Nintendo 64 USFs to 320kbps MP3s. Yeah, it's time. It's going to inflate my file storage but hopefully not too much. I decided that because I can't play these on mobile, I dislike playing them on Windows, and Linux is an unknown, they are a priority to remove.

Having a productive day solving Windows mysteries. Figured out permissions and finally deleted two 13yo WinXP folders; Documents and Settings, "895858986b3e00ad80ea". Took ownership of vstis & samples dir on C:, chkdsk'd drives & set up a bi-monthly backup reminder msg under Windows Task Scheduler.

Question, does anyone generate and maintain hashes on their data as part of their backup strategy, as well as synchronisation/mirrors? I am wondering if this is something I should start doing or whether it's a bit paranoid. I only synchronise currently, which risks synchronising rotting files.

Wow. Taking a moment to breathe this in. What is happening to politics in this country...

Serious music by serious people for serious people.

This morning: the weather looks rough tomorrow, I think today would be the better day to do some PC stuff, in case of power outages. 3PM: fucking power cut anyway sure why the hell not.

This morning I waltzed up to another human being & handed them my poop in jars "like normal" and tbh I'm not over it. I must say, she didn't seem impressed! This was worse than giving blood samples. Haunted by the Hey Duggee Theme playing in my head as I chop up my literal shit with a tiny shovel.

plz do not harass Ishikawa-san thank u

learning that jun ishikawa has been an ambient musician called mushio funazawa for 35 years is mindblowing honestly. so different from most of his kirby work, yet you can hear similarities youtu.be/PWu3DvbqDZY?...

the doctors drained me of GALLONS of blood today, the bloody bastards. but don't worry, tomorrow I will have my revenge, by serving them up vials of my poop. it's the least they deserve.

Unusually I am leaving my PC on overnight to upload some stuff and damn I cannot believe I used to routinely leave a PC running overnight in the mid noughties. This one has a case fan that runs at full tilt 100% of the time, and my desk has no sound insulation, this shit is SO noisy. :(

I (finally!) worked out a directory renaming File Op in foobar2000 to add release years. Wanted for my phone library en-mass since mobile fb2k doesn't expose %year%. (When I say "I" I actually mean GPT. This shit solved something I wanted help with for *ages* and has saved hella time. sry not sry.)

I've been thinking about my music library with considerations about how optimised it is for foobar2000 on Windows, mobile and Linux respectively, and also my backup strategy. It has my head in a spin. I think this is why people just use Spotify to be honest - then it's someone else's problem.

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

Picked up Alien Earth again, I am having a lot of fun with this series. Might even be peak Alien for me yet. Two episodes to go.

Huh. Anticlimactic. Well, I'm still investigating linnucks anyway. Dualbooting is good practice.

I just ate an ASDA raw chilli pepper that had "Mild" written on the bag. I am now down two kleenex and seething. Got trolled hard.

day three of prednisolone and I am beginning to feel mildly fucked up by it. feels a bit weedy tbh lol. after i ate lunch i started coasting on it, visual changes, feeling of floating, paradoxical energy/stimulation and weariness. four more days of max dose, wonder if it'll get more intense...

Okay I wrote a little bit more.

I guess it's too late to sign up for free extended windows 10 security whatever now right?

There is absolutely nothing going on in the world right now so stop looking you have better shit to do.

Not a lot of pred side-effects to speak of at the end of day 1. Very slightly clammier around midday, cool face and ears, earlier my ears popped / pressure change too, but mood, appetite and energy levels are all typical for now. I ought to be able to sleep soundly tonight at least.

I just took my first dose of prednisolone, at long last some treatment for my bellyachin'. Wish me luck gaiz.

So. I should probably start thinking about Linux Mint, huh... Headache.

Good morning. This was a mistake.🤕

"What you’re describing is honest, deeply perceptive, and actually very widely felt — even if few people articulate it so clearly" shut the fuck up.

having high minded principles and a moral compass sucks sometimes when you just wanna enjoy things. enjoy life and being here. know what I mean?

IBD nurse didn't get back to me about my blood test results so instead of taking corticosteroids I am taking dark rum. fuck's sake.

I know I posted about this last week or so, but like... When I say "Somehow, this is Kier Starmer's fault", I don't mean it satirically. This is entirely his fault.