Self-isolation, week four

14 April 2020Posted inInternet, Music, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments
It reminds me of when I was unemployed, having all this free time. But it's weird - instead of bumming around playing videogames all day and moderating meaningless internet forums, this time I am spending my time improving my situation. I asked Twitter when the lockdown first started if this crisis brought anyone's mortality into sharp focus. It did mine.…

Friday update 22/8/14

22 August 2014Posted inReflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments
It's been yet another quick week. Little baby Stewart is due in three weeks if you can believe that - we're hoping that he or she comes a bit sooner than that because now is an ideal time, what with Claire and the kids being away. It would just be a quieter, more relaxed atmosphere for us to introduce the…

Musings

19 July 2014Posted inInternet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments
I'm just sitting here on a sunny Saturday afternoon, at the PC with a green tea and a couple of biscuits, editing the next series of Sonic games (Sonic 2, for those of you who care), thinking to myself that I've not really written anything that wasn't a Friday update on here in a while. I started doing Friday updates…

Friday update 27/6/14

27 June 2014Posted inInternet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments
Jane and Flipper are fine - they are both getting quite big now, scary to think that they are only eleven weeks away! We went to Paulton's Park on Saturday for Ethan's birthday treat - was great fun but a little bit too sunny maybe - I felt like I was getting heat-stroke at one point. All good fun though!…

Bi-yearly update 2014

26 June 2014Posted inBooks, Creativity, Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Hey, this is going to be an epic update, a half-year special so to speak. I’m going to go back and take a look at the targets I made at the start of the year and see how I’m doing with them.

With regards to the Fitness Targets – I’ve done nothing. I don’t know why. Can I not be bothered? Or do I feel like I should be doing something else? I think I feel like I should be drawing or recording videogame footage, but then, I don’t really spend enough time doing those things either, so I have no idea. I reckon I should draw up a timetable, allocate my time. It would illustrate that I have more time than I think I have. But then again, now I’ve said that I’ll put off drawing it up and won’t change until I’ve drawn it up. And a plan like that is ridiculous to think about now seeing as something that I never imagined would happen at the start of the year is happening…

How to play Minecraft – an update

17 June 2014Posted inSite RelatedNo Comments
So, you may or may not have read this post, in which I recount my experiences of Lewis playing Minecraft. Things have changed now, almost wholesale. He no longer pretends to play on Survival while actually playing Creative. As he tends to play alongside Ethan nowadays, they play together on Creative. I have since found out that some of these…
How did I forget these?

How did I forget these?

8 March 2014Posted inCreativity, ReflectionsNo Comments
In my last update, I mean. Ethan has so much Lego. Like, really, so much. I spent half an hour in there the other day, and this is what I made. It is me as a Lego person, riding on my Space Sled, with Jane on the back. And here is a nice little drawing a work-mate drew for me…