Now
Turns out a periodical format is a nice counter to indefinite procrastination, but can’t cure it entirely. Here’s the second update to share what has been occupying my mind and my time over the past month.
Yes, I realise timing means that then would probably be a better tag to categorise this post, but we’ll get there…
What I’ve Been Enjoying
- TV
- White Lotus—Mainly wishing I could return to Thailand some day.
- Music
- A good few singles ebbed out this month, in particular from The Hives and Wet Leg.
- Le Poisson Steve by Tomo…
- Games
- The Finals—After burning out on a lot of FPS games (and especially battle royales), the addition of a Team Deathmatch mode has made an already fantastic multiplayer gmae more accessible for in-and-out fun.
- BeamNG Drive—The realisation that the agonising load times were due to my install being on a redundant HDD and not one of my NVMe drives means I’m having a lot of brainless fun in the pursuit of automotive chaos.
Health
I caught covid towards the middle of last month and have been trying to rebuild some fitness after that. My Apple Watch reports that my VO2max has dipped by a good 10-15% and my efforts to take up running to complement my pursuits in the gym at work have been a little stunted. I have, however, still been gradually trying to build some ability to run and it’s not habitual yet, but I’m enjoying the lovely weather while it’s here.
The Web
It’s not Twitter, certainly not what it was near to the end of its pre-Musk age, but I think that’s a good thing. Things still feel somewhat fractured across Mastodon/Threads, but dipping in/out of Bluesky and Mastodon is giving me a nice balance of thoughts and ideas, particularly techy stuff that I kind of lost touch of when binning Twitter.
Bit of a brief one this month. I’m still trying to find a sort of rhythm and format for these and I don’t think this is it. But I’d rather get something out than nothing so here we are…