It's that time of year again ( Read more... )

A thing that depression does that is awful is to rob you of the good bits and any sort of sensible passage of time and drop you in a pocket universe of shit with a ten minute cycle time. Because that's as much concentrating as you can do (if even that...) before malfunctioning brain goes 'This is too hard, I want distraction with $social-media ( Read more... )

The other week, I was grovelling back through my LJ archive for something else, when I found the set of posts surrounding my attempts to do enough miles to feel fit enough to tackle the Dunwich Dynamo. The short version is that I had a rather good time pottering across Wiltshire in a 100k challenge ride (Still got the cert somewhere) and was ( Read more... )

Obviously the thing I'm not writing about in the last piece is the quite monumentally fucked up state of $work.

It's all a bit Slater-Walker at the moment.

Another thing that happened is that at 5AM the morning before we were due to fly out to the Americas for the Convergences, there was a brief power-cut. The alarm next door set to peeping away like a lost robot, about which I would have been sad because they were away for $time and we would have had to put up with same, had we not also been off out ( Read more... )

(Which about covers it ( Read more... )

Visited the large shop of American horrors this arvo. It is already filled with objects of a yule-based nature ( Read more... )

From El-Reg (which is still the spodding equivalent of the DMail):
Then he choked, and didn't turn the experiment on, saying it all looked too easy. Such choking isn't uncommon - Darwin sat on Origin of Species for nearly 20 years after all. "For about three days, I could have done it, but I didn't have the nerve to switch on that button," ( Read more... )

Because I learned analogue first and probably due to early exposure to biorhythm programs written in CBM BASIC, I have always pictured my mood as a sine wave. The positive and negative bits are more or less equal in amplitude and duration and follow along, one after the other in the way that one expects buses. And indeed for the past yea-long, some ( Read more... )

Hm. I've been a bit quiet on the LJ front because, ugh, brain, by and large ( Read more... )