I today endured the pain of a newly-opened Lidl where some bright spark decided it would be a good idea to have mini-trolleys for kids to clutter up aisles already heaving full of tracksuit-wearing fatsos buying shite.
I've quickly decided I'm not going in there again unless it's the 9-10pm slot.
Treat yourself to Bubbles by Yosi Horikawa. It's an "audiophile" recommendation that dorks like me suck up to test out headphones and speakers.
A multicoloured swoosh of New Balance Fuel Cell Rebel running shoes
I have an unhealthy addiction to New Balance Fuel Cell Rebel running shoes.
Currently have three pairs in my rotation and have had at least four other pairs before 😬
#running
The app is decent so they have some grasp of tech and just need to improve that end-of-shop transaction.
i.e. - the faster the better. Let me out.
If they sort it so I can scan as I go and then tap out to pay when I leave, then I'm onboard. Having to actually queue at a till or scan my items one-at-a-time at a checkout feels at least a decade out of date.
I don't like people. Don't make me spend any longer than I need in a shop FFS.
I didn't appreciate just how much of a snob I am until navigating a first ever (I know!) shopping trip into Lidl.
Was like a mash-up of all sorts of stuff. I had to queue to pay FFS. But cat food was £3.49 so I'm conflicted.
Plus do you really still have to put a quid in a trolley like it's 1993?
It's moments like these that my lack of a PC feels like a spiteful void in my life.
I do miss out on a lot of options not having one...
I officially have a roguelite card deck-builder issue.
Have been playing a lot of Pirates Outlaws after bouncing off it first time round. So I've obviously gone and bought Roguebook for the ridiculous £1.67 it currently costs and am set to pick up Across The Obelisk too.
A hard to decipher and then comprehend fact is that my three trips into the office in the past three weeks, represent 20% of my total number of trips into the office in the past six years.
And I don't like it. Far too frequent. Trousers before 9am feels unacceptable.
Made a rare trip into the office today to pick up a new laptop and I don't know who exactly Dell think they are but the bastards have switched the HDMI connection from left to right and that DESTROYS my cable management infrastructure.
Absolutely livid*
*not actually, but still. Bastards.
I had no idea he was 79. But then I also have no idea how I'm not still 20.
@raphlife.bsky.social I was just idly wandering back from town in the UK with some shopping.
Heard some crows and instinctively started looking for a corpse or carcass. What has your game done to me?! 😅
I'm ambivalent about going on holiday and made the mistake of assuming my wife would generate a lot of hot air about wanting to go away but would ultimately fail to book anything.
She didn't.
Costly mistake.
I can't remember a week abroad costing North of £5k before. Is this new or am I an idiot?
If I have to explain to my CFO even one more time that the things they're looking for me to isolate and reconcile are not mutually exclusive, I will let out a sad little whimper.
May just have to invoke the use of my favourite custom Excel function: SMOKEANDMIRRORS and make things balance.
Having said that, this strange quarter-zip Fisherman style top is one itchy Mo-Fo.
One (the only?) perk of having no fashion sense and giving no shits about that stuff, is that I feel like the three tops I bought from Fat Face at 75% off represent astute acquisitions.
I can't say that I especially like them, but I am no longer cold. No more clothes shopping required until 2028 😎
I have to enter races to get me out of a general malaise which is fine by most standards, but just pottering about for 25-35 miles a week just feels a bit habitual rather than purposeful.
I don't want to be competitive or fast, just to be at least a smidgen committed and focused.
Onto beer #6.
Have entered a Ten Mile road race in 11 weeks time.
Prep isn't going well - currently on a fourth Kronenbourg and wondering what to watch on TV next.
#running
Isn't the Iceland logo at least partially orange too? Seems a perfect fit all round.
I think it's fine as it amplifies the lunacy.
There's a lot of finger-pointing about just how we're in this mess and we need an aggregate realisation domestically and abroad for change to happen. Externally I think we get it. Internally there's a bunch of sycophants who need to wise up fast.
Couldn't appreciate the mastery of "the weave"?
It sounded like a very tame smattering of applause, no doubt from some tired-handed members of the US delegation. I think there were ~1,000 people in there.
Every time he doesn't cross the ocean I pray he throws a clot.
I'm only persisting with this as I'm desperate to see *some* show of dissent from the audience at the end of.....whatever this is.
Honestly, this guy is a total jackass. What a raging tosser 😅
Finally people are flocking for the exit.
A view of "the action" at St. Mary's stadium, where Southampton performed with a trademark lack of quality and botheredness
Absolutely honking day at the football yesterday where the only real highlights were the pre, during and post-match beers, and one of the guys I went with falling asleep early in the second half 😅
Deep into week 3 without a Fridge / Freezer and things have become so bad that I'm actually having to eat my daughter's Food Tech "frittata".
Sometimes the fact that defection is just one letter away from defecation makes me titter to myself.
Seems especially relevant here.
"God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies spinning on a Rega Planar 3RS
Probably my favourite Christmas present.
"God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies was just so different to everything else I was listening to when it was released.
#NowSpinning
