Recently

Been dealing with an annoying health issue, as I always am, but despite this things have been surprisingly busy. Ciel and I have just celebrated our six month wedding anniversary so we’ve been husbanding up a storm. We really are killing it as a married couple.

We’re also waist-deep in the preliminaries of IVF with the tests and the money and the waiting and the money. We did our psychologist appointments, which are a legal requirement here in Australia. And now everything is in place to start sometime before the end of the year. Speaking of things I’m mentally preparing for, I’m turning 40 in a few weeks, which is its own bundle of brain-itches.

There’s also been a bunch of activity on the book with lots of tweaks and ideas for tweaks. We’ve been working on a new opening and I’m happier with where we’re heading.

Watching

I’ve just finished Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee. I’m a sucker for panel shows. And I love the retro vibes and Micallef-esque wordplay. Also binged my way through The Inbestigators which is my favourite show of the year (it actually came out a couple years back). It’s kids running a detective agency. Very funny and very Australian. It’s from the folks at Gristmill, who always make quality stuff.

Both shows available on iView. Inbestigators is also on Netflix.

Listening

Kevin Smith and his daughter have a new podcast called Beardless, D_ckless Me. Their dynamic is wonderfully piss-taking but also very loving with a lot pride and respect flowing between the two. And the callbacks often genuinely make me laugh out out. It’s a nice energy to have pushed into your brain. Although the usual Smith language warning applies.

It’s a podcast. Get it from the podcast getting place.

Using

A new section! A place to talk about a new thing I’ve discovered. Might be software or a gadget. Or just something to fill the page when I haven’t been reading anything. You decide.

Anyway, vidir, which I found via Julia Evans, lets you rename a directory of files in your text editor. So you can use find and replace on a bunch filenames. Or use regex. Doesn’t sound like much but if you ever had fix a bunch of files with awful formatting (snake_case 🐍) or you need to change a word in the middle of a filename, you’ll know how useful this is.

Current Status

Cat: Diurnal

Writing: Bouncy

Hands: Stiff