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10.21 – 10.27

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Life

Kika came to visit because of an inset day at Αα’s nursery. She seemed a bit better than she has been but I find her very hard to read (and she’s a past master at putting up defences) so who would know. The kids loved having her about.

Roofer sorted the gutters but irritatingly left the sodden book and empty bottles of Stella for us to look out at.

Promised Σσ that I wouldn’t buy any more vintage rangefinders this year. I now also own a Konika C35 FD. At least I feel strangely comforted to know that I don’t have to be drunk to impulse buy stuff off eBay.

Got some fibre internet delivered after the Three 5G home hub became untenable. So far it’s been pretty great not having to worry that my phone’s going to overheat from tethering. It hasn’t made me any better at getting my work done.

I carved my first ever pumpkin (went for a pixel-art style) for Ηη’s Halloween disco. Halloween disco was a relatively fresh hell but we all survived. Ηη was mostly up to his old trick of impersonating my old man – totally avoiding the obvious fun that everyone else was having and trying/failing to get his pals to play some sort of bullshit game that only existed in his head. Then getting mad that nobody was playing with him.

Ηη has head-lice. Loath to mention it in the school WhatsApp because he’d be pegged as patient zero.

Everything is far too depressing at present. There’s a lot of death in our near circle. There’s the senseless shit that’s happening to little Aila. Then there’s the frankly terrifying US elections and the various wars raging. I admit I’m not dealing particularly well with any of it.

Work

Prismic fixed a bug in their migration API that meant we could remigrate all the images that had lost their crops in the original migration. Mildly stressful because it isn’t versioned but it’s done and I feel like I’ve got one of many monkeys off my back.

Listening

• Four Tet London 10th August 2024 – 5 hour set

Reading

• Find Your Frame by Craig Whitehead – lots of excellent photos and solid advice

Running

• Tuesday hills
• Thursday hills
• Sunday lacklustre loop of the heath feeling totally spent from the word go