Sorry for the radio silence, for I’ve experienced a lot of first world problems.
I’ve had some ups and downs the last few weeks, it’s fair to say. I think I shared the majority of them on the Now page, but the main one was that my laptop had experienced a battery failure, meaning I had to transfer over to my Windows machine (which was slooooooow – seriously I think the only thing that made it slow was Dropbox, but it crippled my machine). Having to spend Friday evening at the Trafford Centre was probably the second most stressful experience in the last few weeks….
…only broken by an experience of picking up the laptop from The Trafford Centre on the Saturday afternoon of Bank Holiday weekend. Spending a sizeable amount of time driving around to find a car parking space was not how I envisioned to spend the start of the weekend, but I suppose I should count my lucky stars that Apple said it was ready to pick up whilst on the way to Manchester Airport, though it meant we had to swing past The Trafford Centre on the way home – meaning guest’s first experience of the UK was Saturday afternoon in the busiest shopping centre in the North. But it got done.
There’ve been other pesky things – having to ring HMRC as they’ve estimated my income next year to be really high1, a cancellation, potential clients ghosting2 – but having to work without my main laptop was probably the most stressful, meaning I had a slow week, and I needed to catch up – quite how that is manifesting itself in a blog post like this I’m not sure, but it is.
Couple that with the rise of the far right and the fact I lost my Wordle streak this morning means I’ve been in a better place.
There have been highlights mind. I discovered I quite liked Minecraft, I’ve booked tickets to the Manic Street Preachers, I also went to Liverpool and my next post features me ticking off a 50 before I’m 50!
Normal service should resume, soon.
- It’s not ↩︎
- Seriously, if anybody has a better way than The Magic Email, then I’m happy to hear it ↩︎