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I Own 2,000 CDs

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A few months ago, I reached the dubious milestone of owning 2,000 CDs. Which made me think, why the fuck do I own 2,000 CDs? I do listen to them all once. Before broadband, CDs were my main format to listen to music – and even discover music, and I would listen to each CD dozens of times. Now I listen once, perhaps twice. I still buy them. Not as many as I used to, but I still buy one or two a month. It is my way of being able to justify downloading individual tracks via Soulseek or similar … Continued

Life Update – Autumn 2020

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Been a great year so far, hasn’t it? Well, I’m trying to make the best of the situation that we’ve been granted and take what opportunities are available to me. And things are changing in my life. Firstly – work. We had an announcement a few weeks back that the team I work on, the product details page, was being disbanded. Project complete, and completed very successfully – one of the quickest loading product pages in retail (I think the quickest, but not entirely sure so don’t want to claim too much), much cleaner and more responsive than the old … Continued

Coronamoaner: The Fun Is Over

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In the context of April and May, the last couple of months have been rather fun. Nowhere near as much fun as late summer should be, and of course no autumn holiday like I usually have – trying to scrape the last of the sunshine and warmth from some semi-random location in Europe. The fun started with a relaunch of my life at Blacklock. I mean, where else would you celebrate the end of pandemic? This was when I was totally refusing to go anywhere requiring a mask, so my sister even picked me up and dropped me home. Next … Continued

Actually Losing Weight

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Those of you that have read my ramblings over the years will appreciate that my one major frustration, even more so than trying to get laid more than once a decade, is an inability to lose weight. Previously, I had discovered two proven ways of losing weight: Being unemployed Being on detox I had settled into a groove of losing weight during the January to March period, and then putting on around twice as much over the next 9 months. Not only was this not improving my sex life, but also it was having a negative impact on my health. … Continued

Post Covid Politics

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I remember just after the financial crisis a decade or so ago, reading a sizable report in the economist about the expected political repercussions. They suggested large-scale protests, a rise of populist leaders and possible government overthrows, all across the world. And this is what we had – from the Occupy protests, to the Arab Spring, to Trump, Brexit & Co, and so much more during the 2010’s – all either directly or indirectly, fully or partly, caused by the financial crisis. Which leads me to wonder what this current major crisis will bring in the way of politics going … Continued

Three Good Things

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I’m doing a thought experiment to write down three good things at the end of every day, that occurred during the day, for a week. I thought that I might as well make it pubic. This was from a fair few weeks ago. Sunday: My sister visited for our 3rd socially distanced Sunday gathering. I am limited in my ability to get anywhere so I am exceptionally grateful for efforts in visiting me in Harrow. We cooked Pizza In The Post. Granted, I burnt mine so I was eating burnt pizza, but it was fun and the start of my … Continued

James Went To Stratford. Upon Avon.

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I don’t count my blessings every day, but I do count them at times. One such blessing could be that Covid-19 hasn’t affected my health or the health of those close to me. It has, however, affected my social life, my roast dinners, my holidays – in May I was due to visit Japan and were life normal I’m sure I would have had a weekend away in some random European country that only Eurovision Song Contest viewers have heard of. I was also due to go watch the cricket last weekend, England vs Pakistan at Lords. And actually had … Continued

Coronamoaner – Masks

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I always get worried when I find myself on the same side of the argument as Donald Trump, so I was relieved recently when I saw him wear a mask – as I am against the imposition of masks. But why can I be against saving lives, I hear the moral crusaders amongst you ask? Firstly, I don’t believe that wearing a mask does save lives. There is much evidence against – albeit there is also some that suggests there might be a tiny benefit to others but nobody is sure. If mask-wearing was really helpful, then how come it … Continued

Coronamoaner: Location, Location…no location

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A few weeks ago, well a bit over a month ago, I was really struggling psychologically with the whole lockdown shiznit. One of the main factors was just how much my world had shrunk, how limited my options were and how I was trapped in Harrow. Then the enforcement of facemasks came on public transport and I realised that it would be months, or even a year or two before I could go anywhere on my own volition. Why Harrow? Originally I moved to Harrow because my first developer job was in Amersham, and I wanted to be somewhere halfway … Continued

Corona Moaner: Re-Imagining Life

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Lockdown life has become a bit of a struggle at times. I’m now back to my usual cheerful, jokey self and have been for 10 days or so, but I had a good couple of weeks before that where I was consistently really fucking miserable. I didn’t understand at first why I’d become so unhappy the last few weeks. It would have made sense at the start of lockdown, but why late May/early June when freedoms were slowly being granted? Normally in life I am happy most days, at least in the last few years since discovering purpose to life … Continued