100DaysofBeing
Writing for a 100 consecutive days, first in 2026. No rhyme or reason, just stuff and thoughts that bubble to the fore.
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77. Stumbled upon – Libation
Navidrome on my home server might be the gift that keeps giving. In today’s instalment, I stumbled on Chris Abani’s TED Talk from 2008, saved from the podcast in iTunes, and on to my USB HDD where it has sat till a few days ago. It is a deeply emotive talk, one which explores humanity… Continue reading
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76. A Tactical Slacking Cautionary Tale
Today’s Merlin Wisdom post was a bit too on the nose for me, what with my non-job searching job search. It chimes with something I had thought of before, namely recognising the value of a bird in hand and not taking tactical slacking to the extreme. A big part of the de-motivation is yet another… Continue reading
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75. Re: The Cost of Having Been Everywhere
Thinker-at-Large/ public intellectual, Alan Jacobs, (my description, though I suspect he might shudder to think of himself as one) reflects on the cost of having been everywhere, which in the main is that though he has written nearly 20 books now, not one of them is the book he really wanted to write. In his telling, this… Continue reading
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74. Perpetual Stews
After stumbling on a conversation in the Nigerian Twitter sphere about aged/ageing stews a few days ago, today I learned of a perpetual stew which is 48 years old. Wow. Continue reading
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73. The Comeuppance of the Kings of the Shit-House
Glad the anti-football, chiefs of shithousery got their comeuppance. Justice of sorts.. Continue reading
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72. First Saturday of Summer
We spent the day – a mild and leisurely one – up in Birmingham, a return to the city for a second niece’s graduation. The main event was on Friday which left us to our own devices for today. To Cannon Hill Park we went, to take in its sights and sounds and get L… Continue reading
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71. The End of the Beginning
The last day of school before the summer break and the start of the new school year was a great time to pause and celebrate just how far L has come. She had to miss the first two months of the (reception) year, which left her struggling to make friends and connections in class. The… Continue reading
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70. Re: Reconnecting with Music
Richard Dallaway posts about reconnecting with music, highlighting his experience with (paying for but not using) music streaming subscriptions, and a new service being tried, Cantilever. In a similar vein, I have a Spotify subscription which has barely been used in the last three months. Cantilever is an interesting service, but one which I am… Continue reading
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69. Life in a Song – Tenth Avenue North – I Have This Hope
Thanks to Navidrome, I have been dumpster diving the innards of old USB hard drives at home. Sadly, there are no bitcoin keys to find there, so tactical slacking must continue “at pace”. I did find my old music archive from ages ago from which this Tenth Avenue North Song comes. It was a real… Continue reading
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68. (More) HomeLab-ing
It is coming up to a year since I ditched my Microsoft Enterprise Basic subscription, slapped TrueNAS on an old Lenovo ThinkCentre, and started the self-hosting journey. Since then I have replaced OneDrive with Nextcloud (without all the bells and whistles of talk, photos etc), and Google Photos with Immich. Both pieces of software are… Continue reading
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