Category: Journaling
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Digging for vinyl
Call me a soulless old fart with no sense of whimsey or joy of discovery but I don’t like vinyl fairs. For those of you who don’t know; vinyl fairs are event usually held in something like a local town hall or church where sellers will rock up with crates of vinyl and look to…
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Backlog Maintenance
I am an analyst at heart and at work. This has its ups and downs; it earns me good money but I am prone to analysing things that a sane person would just not care about. Case in point, my gaming backlog. Bring out your dead! So my backlog is doing nothing but grow as…
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Insomnia #72!
I attended Insomnia 72 during the Easter weekend and I wanted to report back on the stuff I saw and something that annoyed me.
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Hobby changes
So my hobbies are in a bit of a mess right now and I am having a bit of an audit. Between being let down by suppliers or couriers and having to make decisions about my own priorities I need to straighten things out. Model building has hit a dead stop because my model orders…
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Learn from my mistake
Last year I made an investment into my personal setup to improve my monitors as the old ones were starting to have issues. I went from a mismatched pair of 1080p monitors to a matched pair of 1440p. This has been a great improvement for the productivity side of things. I was surprised that my…
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Hobby Review for 2023
So with the year ending it is a natural time to take a look backwards and see what has happened and take notes about how to go about 2024. Woodworking: My woodworking has languished over the last year and I put that down to the garage in which I work being constantly in a terrible…
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My Hobby spending & Amazon
I spend a lot of money with Amazon, frankly too much. It is my go to site for most of my hobby purchases. I get tools, kits and books from them. After completing a number of DIY projects that involved several Amazon purchases, it has crystalized my negative opinion on the matter: Mt. Cardboard Firstly…
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Why I need this blog
I keep a list on my phone of the various ideas I have for blog entries and high on that list has always been “why did you start this blog in the first place?” today I was given a simple explanation as to why. Head empty For the first time in a while I went…
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My thoughts on the games industry in 2024.
I’m writing this the day after a whole bunch of layoffs went down at The Escapist. The owning company Gamurs (I hadn’t heard of them either) has removed multiple members of staff which has lead to a number of other members choosing to resign. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. The…
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