If not, when will I be? I have compulsions, I am sure we all do. Are yours all consuming sometimes? Today, a Friday, I got in my Jaaag (The Beast, with broken AC) at 0630, drove to Oxford for work, did my job (I was awesome) and drove back. A long ass day, and pretty much for all of this day I have just wanted to sit in front of this keyboard and type. It was a total compulsion, a desire, nagging at me, clawing at my skin almost. Ideas and thoughts running through my mind. I

Or at least I thought I did. On October 20th 2021 I posted this; https://www.my11yearplan.com/post/i-have-a-plan If you are new here, welcome, get comfy, grab a beer, or a wine, or a water, no judgement here. There are over 50 posts between this one and that first one pasted above, most are me drivelling on about dating or my trips to America and even coffee machines. Read the first four, from the bottom up, and then come back here. But have a look at the others as well at so

Halfway through 2026. I am currently reduced to one screen using this laptop and it is not the screen I like to use. In general. Which is an annoyance to add to this 'mid year performance review' post. This screen is on my left, and it is a perfectly good screen, same size as the one that sits to its immediate right. But it is not the 'main screen', and I know that you know what I mean. It is the screen that gets used for non essential but still important stuff, like your ema

Who Knew? This post could also be part three of https://www.my11yearplan.com/post/life-is-too-short-for-bad-coffee and https://www.my11yearplan.com/post/life-is-too-short-for-bad-coffee-the-sequel The machine mentioned in the above 'the sequel' post decided that it did not want to play ball anymore, it was never a 'great player' in fairness, but of late it really has not been keeping up, barely holding it's own, which really is just passing heated water through ground coffe