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Maybe it’s just the 20-year trend cycle, or maybe it’s the triumphant new wave of successful pop stars hawking their own branded perfumes, but in any case, we’re seeing a revival of enthusiasm for celebrity scents. Back in 2005-2010 or...
Where: Brydon Lagoon, Blackie Spit (Surrey), Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake (Burnaby)Weather: Cloudy with some sun, 11-16°C Unlike recent outings, the weather was unseasonably cool today. I still wore shorts. Brydon Lagoon The last time we...
I’ve figured out that my weeks are like sandwiches. Mondays and Fridays are quiet, while Tuesdays to Thursdays are back to back meetings. With a sample of 3 weeks, is it really a work pattern or a short term trend? That question lingered...
Circling Back I know I’ve touched on this theme a few times lately, but I keep circling back to it because this is genuinely where I am in my own journey right now. And the more I can write about it and get my thoughts down, the more I...
Paul McCartney, in an interview by The Rest is History’s Tom Holland: You would know certain chords. And then someone would know an extra cord. So you would go to his house and learn this extra cord, and you’d build up your knowledge...
It’s the top of the summer, and we have a full house once again: Aaron is home from college. He’s got a neat job lined up at the NJ Motorsports Park as a marshall. He’s going to see a lot of cool cars in the next couple of months. On a...
So, there’s a new laptop out there (coming this Fall) called Googlebook. It’s like a Chromebook, based partly on ChromeOS, retaining the full desktop Chrome browser with webapps. But it’s also: Nicer — more premium hardware (and specs?)...
Grief is a process that has only a beginning, so I am trying not to mistake this first darkness for the whole sky. The post Just Sad | Weeknotes #439 appeared first on thejaymo.net.
Got my job title changed at work, covering the role I do have and the work I'm doing (but no update to /salary/) which is cool! It's also a lot easier to say: -Senior Developer and Open Source Project Maintainer +Renovate Project Lead...
This week, we progressed the slow running drama of my youngest’s toof. Avid readers of alicebartlett.co.uk/blog will recall when he got his first tooth (very early), and then the rest came in, and then when they started to fall out in a...
The result of the latest Classics Club Spin has been revealed today. The idea of the Spin was to list twenty books from my Classics Club list, number them 1 to 20, and the number announced by the Classics Club represents the book I have...