Well That Didn't Work

I tried building a new computer. It ended poorly...

Fixed me Keyboard

My aging Razer Blackwidow keyboard recently began exhibiting a fault in which it would randomly disconnect. I even plugged a different keyboard into the computer because it seemed as if the fault was permanent but then I noticed that the keyboard was responding again...

Fixed the Car

Every time I've sat down and twiddled the Vernier calipers in my hand I've been super unmotivated but today I did it. I opened up Blender, created a cube and started modelling...

Ants

All I wanted was to get my map of the Kingdom of Albareth from the box in the shed. I couldn’t find it – I don’t know if it’s even around any more. What I did find was ants. Lots of ants...

Peaceful Bay

We had lunch at Peaceful Bay on Saturday. We would not normally have ventured so far for a meal in the current circumstances but it’s coming up to the end of the financial year and we still have some fuel money left. I haven’t been out west for some time...

The Enshittification Continues

Strictly speaking, this particular example worked itself out way back in 2014 but I only became acutely aware of it recently and once again is an example of what happens when your throw something out..

Pizza

I made a pizza for tea tonight...

Urban Infill Shelves

There’s a little space between the kitchen bench and the bookcase upstairs that is currently full of random stuff – phone chargers, cables, the technological dags dangling off the rear end of our modern connected lives. It’s all very tacky and unsightly...

Never Throw Anything Away

So I was all set to write a smug little self congratulatory post about how I’m a galaxy brain for never throwing anything away and oh would you look at that, something I’ve kept for years finally came in useful but actually, as it happens, the thing I was going to write about wasn’t as useful as I originally thought...

Rebuilt Me Yacht

It’s odd, do you not agree, how one thing can lead to another in the most unlikely way until you get to an end point that has nothing to do with the originating event. A fortnight ago I went up to clean the solar panels and now I have rebuilt my toy yacht. How? I hear you ask...