Usual miscellany and trivia
Jan. 28th, 2026 09:07 pmI don't manage to make time to update much lately but I can write a little about this and that occasionally.
Our dog L. is still doing reasonably better, which is reassuring. He's seemed quite well lately. I look forward to being able to take him for a good walk again. Right now I'm in the middle of my in-office days for the week so not much else gets done, of course others are home with him.
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mst3kmoxie will graduate with M.A. (Hons) Art History so yay for them.
At work, I'm finally coming to the other side of a tricky project that's gone on for some weeks, I'm glad to be moving on to other, more usual, tasks, though today my current tasks got something of a specification change partway through. The tricky work is getting more testing now, I do hope that goes well. It's been nice to have limited timezone overlap with the person testing, then I can fix things before they start work and they get to test without me also fiddling with things.
Recently, I ran an errand which had me driving along a local road that had what seemed to me to be an absurd bicycle lane (on Google Maps), barely a couple of feet wide right in the door zone alongside the parked cars. If I were cycling, I'd not use it while hoping not to be annoying the cars behind. (When I passed, there were more cars parked further along the road than shown in the link.)
We saw Sinners (2025) and I didn't see what all the fuss is about. I tend to like the Deep South as a setting, and I like the blues, but I feel as if I've largely seen the elements before, it was easy to guess what would happen, the characters and plot seemed fairly thin; I just didn't end up much caring. I'm obviously missing something.
I've also been watching Pluribus (2025) which is an interesting concept but it does move fairly slowly, each episode doesn't come with quite the pace of developments that we get from, say, Fallout (2024). It's enough to keep me watching but, again, I'm not quite the fan that plenty others seem to be.
Our dog L. is still doing reasonably better, which is reassuring. He's seemed quite well lately. I look forward to being able to take him for a good walk again. Right now I'm in the middle of my in-office days for the week so not much else gets done, of course others are home with him.
mst3kmoxie will graduate with M.A. (Hons) Art History so yay for them.At work, I'm finally coming to the other side of a tricky project that's gone on for some weeks, I'm glad to be moving on to other, more usual, tasks, though today my current tasks got something of a specification change partway through. The tricky work is getting more testing now, I do hope that goes well. It's been nice to have limited timezone overlap with the person testing, then I can fix things before they start work and they get to test without me also fiddling with things.
Recently, I ran an errand which had me driving along a local road that had what seemed to me to be an absurd bicycle lane (on Google Maps), barely a couple of feet wide right in the door zone alongside the parked cars. If I were cycling, I'd not use it while hoping not to be annoying the cars behind. (When I passed, there were more cars parked further along the road than shown in the link.)
We saw Sinners (2025) and I didn't see what all the fuss is about. I tend to like the Deep South as a setting, and I like the blues, but I feel as if I've largely seen the elements before, it was easy to guess what would happen, the characters and plot seemed fairly thin; I just didn't end up much caring. I'm obviously missing something.
I've also been watching Pluribus (2025) which is an interesting concept but it does move fairly slowly, each episode doesn't come with quite the pace of developments that we get from, say, Fallout (2024). It's enough to keep me watching but, again, I'm not quite the fan that plenty others seem to be.
