Just had my last Lemsip*, now have to decide if I want to pay an extortionate amount to buy more on Taobao.
*Morrison’s own but it’s the same.
A new poem every minute of every day. Powered by ChatGPT. (On an e-ink screen, like a picture frame’.!)
Love this. If I didn’t live where I live… But also, makes me think of things I could do. Would I be able to?
My Apple Watch 3 stop watch is up to 9978 hours. Guess i’m getting up early tomorrow to see what happens when it gets to all nines. AI tells me I started in December 2022.
To love. Some say it’s what makes us human. That it defines our existence. But it’s not without risk. Love teaches us about pain, heartbreak, and resilience. It encourages us to do the small things that make a big difference. Love shapes our days, weeks, months… Our years. Because the act of devotion eventually reveals a path to fulfillment we can’t find anywhere else. From its Latin roots, the word Amateur simply means “To Love.” In running, we are all amateurs.
The Year of the Amateur | Tracksmith
Love this video but I just can’t do running.
I know the thing in film and tv where breakfast is this giant spread that no one in real life has time. But, the one where they say goodnight to kids and that’s it is the one that gets me, because this is not my experience at all.
HOW TO MAKE A WORLD by Maria Popova
What are you, little tree
rising from the center
of the old slain stump?
You are no requiem,
no prophet,
no metaphor for how
life goes on asserting itself
over death.
No — you seem to be
just a fractal branch
of the same dumb resilience
by which we rose from the oceans
to compose the Benedictus
and to build the bomb.
Taxi
I don’t get taxis so much, Didi (think Uber) is just more convenient when your Chinese isn’t good. As well, they tend to drive more sensibly than taxis.
Just got a taxi and the only way I can explain is this… You know how in films where they throw money at the driver to get somewhere fast? It was like that, except he did it as standard. Weaving in and out of traffic, accelerating quickly, just pure reckless behaviour. Dread to think what it would have been like if we asked him to hurry!
Chinese train stations are, to this British person, a combination of train station and airport. I need my passport as id and instead of a ticket, the platform opens a short time before the train leaves and there are multiple platforms. Obviously because it’s China (人山人海）the station is cavernous and constantly busy. A completely different experience.
I could read the Slow Horses books forever. Some of the lines hit a sweet spot for me that either read it again or have to stop to take a moment and enjoy it. Currently reading the 4th book Spook Street. 📖
Enjoying the The Rest is Entertainment podcast - that I watch on Youtube with Marina Hyde and Richard Osman. Always been a fan of her writing so I very much enjoy this.
A busy day at school. Lots of things popping that involved lots of talking to colleagues. I could go home and do more work after working from 7:30-5:00 and it would certainly make tomorrow a little easier. But I need to stop and take a mental break.
Recharge, 2023-2024 – Dries Depoorter
Installation featuring a chair where you can relax and charge your phone. However, your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed.
Via Kottke
Doing, not thinking.
I made a list of the things I could do instead of using my phone.
Read, write, draw, meditate, go for a walk, watch tv (without my phone), learn.
The list was endless but didn’t work for me at all. I was looking at it wrong, I think.
After reading about sofa I’ve been much better. I’m doing things because I want to. I’m better at sitting and scribbling the first thing that comes into my head in the Muji fold flat notebook I bought, I’ve been spending some time learning Korean using Duolingo and through talking to the Korean students in my class, I signed up for omg.lol and have been enjoing being horrible at trying to do some to personalise my blog.
Now, I’m doing things because I want to and that’s all. If I do it for a 100 days, that’s cool and if I don’t, that’s ok too. I like this new way of thinking about it.
Todays workout was fun. Cardio felt good, maybe one day I’ll push a bit harder. Happy with the pace.
Nintendo's Expansion Pack
Got Nintendo’s Expansion Pack today so can now play the extra Mario Kart maps but also, a load of N64 and Sega Genesis cough Megadrive games like Revenge of Shinobi.
The kids staring, individually, a screen is bad but the three of us, collectively, staring at a screen and laughing is a whole other thing, I think. It feels different anyway. I am knackered after the weekend. Tomorrow I can go be a teacher and rest a while…