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Tempted to go upstairs and ask the person in the flat above to put their previous playlist on, I was quite enjoying that one through my ceiling and now they’ve switched to boy bands and commercial pop.

In other news, I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of the last few days dismantling and putting back together my hot water loop. The pump that provides pressure failed for the third time in two years and I’m determined to get to a root cause this time rather than replace it with a new one.

I think I’m down to a little float valve seizing up and preventing water from flowing and the pump being triggered to turn on.

Welcome to day 4 of wondering whether this will be the day the Parcel Force guy actually makes it to my flat before his shift times out. I keep getting emails saying the parcel will be with me by 7:30pm and then nobody showing up, with no acknowledgement at all that they’ve been saying it for days. To add insult to injury, this is a 48 hour tracked delivery, sent on Monday.

I’ve had a low level migraine all day and have now had enough of it thanks. It’s not even a proper one that would cause me to stop doing things, just a dull annoyance that makes doing things less enjoyable.

YouTubers Stop Talking And Read The Code That Isn’t Working Challenge. Difficulty level: Impossible.

Uber: “Our use of AI makes us able to respond to customers” (or something like that)

Also Uber: Advertises the ability to order some ramen delivered for dinner after my long commute under a 15 minute journey taken from the address labelled “Home” on a Sunday morning.

Oh no. I’ve gone and got the idea of building a game stuck in my head again. Will this be the time I actually build a game or will I simply spend the next two to three months learning irrelevant details of game engines?

I am, yet again, annoyed at how effective exercise is for sorting me out. Forced myself to the gym, in the rain, thinking I’d go for half an hour at least just to have done so. I then proceeded to have a super chill hour of bouldering in which everything flowed really nicely, including half an hour repeatedly falling off a climb that’s not really my style but I reckon it’ll go in a few more sessions.

Everything’s feeling pretty bleak at the moment, like the collapse of whatever system we have currently is snowballing down the mountain and nobody seems to have any decent ideas for what comes next. Seeing out the age of mediocrity and good enough with more of the same while desperately hoping it works this time.

Good God, iPlayer. Nobody but me has ever been signed in on this device. I live alone. This hasn’t changed since yesterday so how about you just skip the bit where you ask who’s watching?