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(This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too.)
What's happening?
โ๏ธ Hey that solar eclipse was pretty cool, right? It inspired us to do some general astronomy too, so we spent a few evenings in the garden with necks craned to the sky to spot meteors and satellites. Boy there are a lot of satellites now.
๐ฅ Unashamed to say that I really really enjoyed The End of Oak Street. It's not Citizen Kane and was never going to be, but it's a very fun very well made silly dinosaur film.
โ๏ธ A new bar/pizza place/coffee shop thing opened nearby and looks really nice. Their coffee was excellent when we visited on Saturday too. Hoping I can start using it as a work-away-from-home space.
๐ Committed to read Neuromancer this week. I've tried a lot in the past and given up every time. It's a good story but I really don't like the way it's written. I look forward to finishing the final few pages today and moving on with my life.
๐ฟ Had a lot of fun listening to an old live recording of two of the Raconteurs performing back in 2010. They're a band with a lot of filler but those hits hit hard.
๐ถWe're in a habit of walking around the local reservoir both days of the weekend right now. I love it there - it's an easy three miles or so with nice views. It's really sad how low it is during this drought though.
๐ฅต Speaking of which, I'm hopeful that the fifth heatwave of the summer was the last.
๐ง We seem to have finally got the house's heating system fixed, even if that fix happened on the hottest day of the year when the crew needed to run the heating system to do their checks.
๐งโ๐งโ๐ง Saw two of the niblings this weekend. Three year old just likes laughing at me; four-year-old is starting to be the same. Love spending time with both of them.