2025 has been another mixed year. I still have two unresolved health problems, one of which was partly (and initially successfully) treated, but has since come back, the other I’m still waiting for an appointment to see the right specialist (because the hospital lost my referral and refused to take into account the time I […]
Goals for 2023
2022 has been another mixed year – I had some things go spectacularly well and other things fall apart. I’ve concentrated on clearing out dead wood, both physical objects – such as a books I’ll never read – and digital items such as old websites. I’ve got far too much stuff in my life and […]
Goals for 2022
2021 has been a mixed year, with some major ups and downs. Hopefully 2022 will be a bit smoother! This year’s goals were: Read 50 books: I’ve read 60 books this year (down from 79 in 2020) – success! Launch at least one of my side projects: Minimal progress on this due to other things […]
Goals for 2021
With what seems like remarkable foresight, but was probably just forgetfulness, I did not set any goals for 2020. For several reasons, including the obvious two, it was mostly a rubbish year, although there were some upsides, such as improving my French from “haven’t written/spoken for 20 years” to A2 on the Common European Framework […]
Goals for 2019
I didn’t do terribly well on my goals for 2018: Improve photography skills: Failed, I can’t even find my camera. Finish Configuration Management with Ansible training course and deliver it at least once: Failed, although I have added another couple of exercises. Read 50 books: Success! According to my Goodreads challenge, I managed 70 books […]
Review of the year
Have done this for the last three years, so here I go again… Best bands seen: Haven’t seen any, though I was mercilessly mocked for not knowing who Ash and Damien Rice were (or indeed James Blunt, but people were more of the opinion that this was a good thing). Worst bands: As above. 🙂 […]
Review of the year
I did this in 2004 and 2005 so here I go again… Review of 2006 Best bands seen: I haven’t seen any bands this year, unless you include Razorlight and KT Tunstall and I didn’t really ‘see’ them. Worst bands: As above. 🙂 Exotic towns/cities visited: I haven’t been anywhere special this year, mainly because […]
Review of the year
I did this review of the year in 2004, and now that I’ve finished what’s probably been the busiest semester so far in the two and a half years I’ve been at uni, I thought it was about time for an update. So here goes… (yes I know it’s not strictly the end of the […]
Review of the year
Via Jennie and David: Best Local bands seen: Don’t know any local bands. Worst local bands: As above. 🙂 Exotic towns/cities visited: Nowhere, not really one for travelling. Girls I fancied but failed to get anywhere with: Ha ha, wouldn’t you like to know. 😉 Girls I fancied and did get with: None. 🙁 Great […]