I love it when a book randomly mentions where I live:
”I was also looking forward to experiencing my first aid station, laid on at regular intervals to help runners stay fuelled and hydrated on their journey south to Shoreham on the West Sussex coast.”
— from Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚
Back into the “7.30am swimming lesson for my eldest” routine for Sundays.
As ever, a flask of great coffee and a good book makes it tolerable - and even enjoyable.
From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚:
“Deep down in the ocean, below the waves and ripples, you can find your internal silence. Standing in the shower, letting the water wash over your head, sitting in front of a crackling fire, swimming across a forest lake or taking a walk over a field: all these can be experiences of perfect stillness too.”
From Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚:
“A seam of bullying ran unchecked through the school, which wasn’t uncommon in the late seventies and early eighties. You could be targeted for the slightest weakness, and if you didn’t fight back or assert dominance, that made the target bigger on your back.”
Ain’t that the truth.
Just survived the slightly nerve-wracking process of upgrading my Mastodon server to 4.0.2. All went smoothly, and it’s up and running again.
😮💨
Here’s my top 10 posts of 2022 from my work blog.
Interesting that the journalism world is really interested in the fall of social media and the rise of newsletters.
A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it would come from big-in-Japan Six Apart these days…)
