The tree lurched from another strike. Nearly there. The aggression of the last couple of minutes had left him short of breath, so he took a long breath in and out and stepped back. He figured 2 more hits, and it would be down. The tree would supply enough logs
It is currently the 5th of April 2025. I am sitting in bed at my hotel in Prague, with my laptop out after a week of roaming the streets of Europe. I have another two weeks of it ahead of me. This is being written after having read some pages
In 2013, I was a jobless 19 year old with no plan. To fill the days, I was regularly volunteering at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. It was a smaller charity at the time, but it still had loads of people donating all sorts of computing hardware and
Over the last few months, I have been thinking a lot about change. What it means to change as a person, and have change happen to you. Recently I bought a book about change. Made it through 20 odd pages before I decided it wasn’t for me. I don’
I have liked taking photos since I was a wee’un. Growing up with many disposable cameras in 90’s, digital for the next 20 years and then recently going back to good old analog photos in my 30’s. I love just pressing that shutter button and producing a
One of the things people pause to ask me when I tell my story about the aortic dissection is “Wait they just let you go after the A&E visit?”.
I can say now, now the year has passed, that 2024 was better than 2023. But it still strongly ranks in the top 3 worst years of my life. This post is a personal check-in for the start of 2025. A single blog post to put a retrospective of 2024
Last month was the Half-Life 2 20th anniversary (November 16th). This post is a boring retelling of how I played some games on a computer (who cares). But I wanted to write this, before one day I forget some of the details. And I get to talk about Team Fortress
It’s weird, I imagine the first question people ask their doctor when getting a medical diagnosis is how much time they have left. For me it was actually the second, after “It’s that bad huh?”. It’s also the first question I get asked when I tell people
In this post are a few mini-posts I’ve written in the last couple of months. They aren’t about anything in particular, and I think they are less interesting than full blown heart surgery posts. I’m treating this as a traditional online blog, full of thoughts someone might
When I was a teenager, I think I hated the idea of running. There was just always something cooler about riding a bike, or playing sport. Or actually playing something like playing tennis or badminton, a game. The thought of doing running leisurely felt weird to me. Anybody can run
Alt title: real world thoughts of the On-X Aortic Prosthesis after 11 months Content warning for this post: Suicide and self-harm. I’ve had a lot of thoughts over the last 11 months. They’ve been leaving a trail on my notes apps as I write them down whilst on