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This one at least partly rain-induced. May not count for professional scoring.

6:02 am

Into the days of waking up in darkness again.

6:00 am

Untold hundreds of travel adapters.

1:47 pm

Apparently I’ve been keeping a bunch of broken desk lamps and old DVD players in The Cupboard That I Studiously Ignore. Bonus: found a copy of Moon that I didn’t remember owning.

1:44 pm

The real pro-strat has been in cunningly only buying Coke-Zero-shaped books for the last 15 years.

11:07 am (1 image)

Would it be weird to pack books in 24-pack Coke Zero boxes?

10:59 am

Considering moving house and suddenly my year’s-worth hoard of undumped Amazon boxes seems like logistical genius.

10:48 am

One of those slick-grey starts to the day that feels infinitely long.

You could move the clock but you’d definitely need special shoes.

8:19 am

Drama-queen clouds over the lough earlier. Not visible: walking-in-the-rain levels of humidity.

5:52 pm (1 image)

On a train. Literally brought sweatbands with me.

12:31 pm

It’s so warm that my bewildered house is making its deep midsummer groans.

2:20 pm

The view out front is clearly autumn but the back garden is baking in a summer’s day. Spiders apparently chasing flies from one to the other.

12:01 pm

“I’ve been in this room before”—my childhood terror at the holodeck scene from ‘Schisms’ continues to add a tingly piquant on rewatches.

5:56 pm

Slowly trying to add some colour and texture differentiation. I want to push towards a dirty, patinaed gold for the metal.

3:10 pm (1 image)

Currently trying to grok non-metallic metal. Baffled by how well it seems to be going.

4:25 pm (1 image)

Like most of ex-birdsite iOS, I resisted but ultimately followed @stroughtonsmith down the rathole of getting back into mini painting as a kinda harmless midlife crisis… somehow I now own a 3D printer.

4:23 pm

There’s a comforting thok-thok-thok out there of a neighbour doing something maintenancey to their house. I may clean the kitchen in solidarity.

You and me, productive stranger.

9:51 am

This beautiful beast has just arrived.

12:20 pm (2 images)

For some reason my brain goes to Zodiac. It must be 99% vibe.

8:26 am

Is there a genre of film which is just pre-horror horror? Something with the vibe of The Shining before all the spook-em-ups. Vaguely banal but off-kilter normalcy, with the sense of something coming.

8:24 am