I can't focus on tasks.
I just keep listening.

22:00
Everybody else is in bed.

I'm relaxing in the lounge, with the fire blazing & Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder playing in the background.

Fantastic Saturday evening FTW

I hadn't done it for years, but dear god, does getting soap in your eyes hurt...

I need a new USB stick.

I am seriously contemplating this beastie.
https://www.kingston.com/en/usb-flash-drives/datatraveler-max?capacity=1tb&connector=usb-c

Do I really want to trust 1TB of data to a hunk of silicon & plastic that weighs 12grams?

One major benefit of living in Palmy; no 0630 emergency alerts.

Every day the enshittification of the Internet frustrates me.
I used to have strong Googlefoo (I even put it on my cv).
It is weak now because I need to verify every single result it returns.

Been having a discussion, and thought I'd have a quick poll. Please boost to get this beyond my bubble.

Is zero:

FENZ decided to use it as a training exercise for some newbies.

Spicy pillow containment deployed. Will take to the recycle centre later.

Wife pops into my office asking if I have a battery bank she can borrow as "there's something weird with mine"

We tried out Te Ahu a Turanga (Manawatū Tararua Highway) this morning; popped over to Woodville for a coffee and op-shopping.

The drive is fantastic (albeit steep), and the views are spectacular.

Also, you turn the corner and, BAM! multiple huge wind turbines less than 100 meters away. Amazing.

I just learned there is a cat show tomorrow; open to the public, at the event centre 5 minutes from our house.

Brisk start to the day.

They are going to use our diesel loco to shunt the broken down Electric unit to the station.

Every sort of weather kills trains in Wellington. Frost on overhead lines causing massive problems this morning.

I'm going to start telling my boss "Sorry, I hallucinated, won't happen again" when I screw something up.

Huh.
Apparently CrowdStrike day was a year ago.
Amazing how fast time has gone, and so little has changed.

Civilization VI (Platinum Edition) is currently FREE on Epic Games

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sid-meiers-civilization-vi--platinum-edition

The three hardest things in computer science
* Cache invalidation
* Naming Things
* Off-by-one Errors
* Threlti-Muading
* Cache Invalidation