long way home

Boy do I ever not want to go to work today.
I’ve been up for a while — around 6:30 — and it’s now after 9am, so it’s not like I couldn’t get in early and catch up on some of the always-present, always-urgent, never-scheduled, always-stupid tasks that seem to get punted down upon us (from [...]

I have a theory, admittedly immature, that the human life is punctuated by pivotal events and decisions, nexus points, at approximately prime multiples of years i.e. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and so on up the prime number series. This means you will have life-changing moments at (for the second prime [...]

With Chris Kendrick coming to visit, I went ahead and booked a Haggis Tour: Skye High.
This should see us travelling around Scotland and Skye on a bus for a few days, with plenty of opportunities for walking (Chris’s idea) and drinking whiskey (my idea), as well as a chance to meet some new people on [...]

Time is ticking by — it’s time for some reconnaissance!
To that end Dee has booked us into a hotel in London for the Easter long weekend (6th – 9th April). We’ll be staying at the Hilton Docklands, which is close to where we might want to live and work and thus will give a good [...]

I’m at work early this morning, sitting around waiting for other people to do stuff (I’ve done everything I need to already!) so we can get somebody to sign off the whole morning as a success. Oh the joy of tech!
I’m pretty much convinced that we won’t be going to Singapore now. It [...]