While writing this (after procrastinating famously for the last hour), the clock is busy ticking past 1am - or rather, it did so about 10 minutes ago. I’m ridiculously tired, but also aware I’ve not written for a few days, and want to at least empty some of the utter idiocy from my head, lest it be forgotten entirely.
A new coffee machine arrived today. It arrived mid-morning, but I didn’t get a chance to open the box until late this evening - by which time my middle daughter had opened it (and left the packaging all over the kitchen floor in the same way she leaves her shoes, bag, coat, and dirty clothes all over the floor throughout the entire house, but we won’t go on too much about that).
I will admit to being a bit crestfallen when I discovered the box had been opened. There’s something about opening parcels, isn’t there - reminders of childhood birthdays or Christmases perhaps.
After finishing work quite late - because I’m terrible at walking away from anything that needs solving - I realised I had no coffee pods for the coffee machine. Crap.
An hour later I returned from town, with a bag full of coffee pods, and a bunch of bananas (don’t ask). After surviving on instant coffee for the last several weeks, having a nice cup of frothy coffee once more was kind of wonderful.
We ate dinner late. Some of the oven trays are still soaking in the sink. You know how some meals seems like a quick solution , but then they make such a mess of the cooker trays, it then takes 18 hours to soak and scrub them afterwards? That happened tonight.
So guess who will be finishing washing up before he starts work in the morning…
Later this evening I recorded more content for YouTube, and then fell down a colossal internet rabbit-hole - listening to authors talk about their books. I chanced upon a wonderful speech Andy Weir gave about the writing of “The Martian”, and its unanticipated success - which is most of the reason I’m now sitting here at 01:15am.
I should go brush my teeth and fall into bed. I have a couple of days coming surrounded by thousands of lines of source code. I’m going to need to be awake.