Week Notes 2025-09/12

So I took some time off from the blog for myself, and now I have the fun task of getting back into things.

📓 Notes

Over the past few weeks I've been very down, which is understandable, but my god I'd forgotten just how dark my sense of humour can get when I'm low. 😱

To be honest I gave myself until the funeral to get my mind right, and there were times that I was just going to stop, stop blogging, stop writing programs for fun. Withdraw form the internet and social media entirely.

Things were feeling just too much, but after week three I started thinking more about the good things I could see, and trying to see more of it.

Remembering the good times with both Mum and Dad, my Dads voice in the back of my head "Don't let the bastards grind you down" and I won't, I can't, it's just hard sometimes.

Everywhere I look, I see people being just the worst version of themselves, and I realise that I can't do anything to fix it. and that's ok I just need to remember to boost the ones that can even if that's just to say good job. Though that does sound a little patronising, "Well done standing up to fascists, keep up the good work 👍", but if that's all I can do, it's better than nothing.

Anywhoozle...

We had the funeral last Thursday in Cardiff so we drove down the day before and had a meet-up with my two oldest and best friends and all their kids, it was great and just the pick-me-up I needed. But I really don't do well in large groups 😨 too. many. people.

Yesterday I fell into a focus hole, and did rather a lot of work on my new CMS, I have set-up my UAT server, with Docker and got the reverse proxy and the website working I've written the docker compose script ready for production, and the SSG now loads the markdown files and converts them to HTML, mostly, I still need to fix a few hang overs from Hugo. it's generating the front page, I need to work on the template for the site so it's got some style. Oh yes and I made it automatically send the files to the server over SSH 🤓. I'm hoping to have the first version ready by next week 🤣

🦣 Mastodon

Done Nothing, some light boosting and a few thoughts, nothing special.

🎞️ Films

Oh-boy, where to start, it's been a month so.

• "The Fast and the Furious" series apart from 9 because for some reason I couldn't find it on Sky.
• Christopher Nolan's "Batman Trilogy" followed by "The Batman (2022)" & "The Lego Batman Movie (2017)" apparently all other Batman films are Sky Store only.
• Watched all the "Die Hard" films, still satisfying, and Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) is still my favourite.
• Thelma (2024) Bloody loved it. 😃
• The Electric State (2025), I heard that some people didn't like it, again Loved it sad ending though. 😢
• Sliding Doors (1998) I was sure I hadn't seen it before, but remembered it about half way through.
• The Sweeney (2012) Another one I'd forgotten I'd already seen, but also that it featured Hayley Atwell

📺 TV

• Still watching Death in Paradise as I can't just sit around waiting to binge watch it.
• Started watching Marvel's Daredevil so that we can watch Daredevil: Born Again once we've caught up.
• With all the things happening over in the USA at the moment for my own sanity I'm consuming as little news from over there as I can apart from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver because it doesn't seem as bad when it's coming from an him.
• The Equalizer is back on and is still successfully scratching my itch for low-budget '90s TV shows.

🎧 Music

I managed to pick-up a small stack of "Now That's What I call Music" CDs from the charity shop the other week, and found that the ripping tool I use does use musicbrainz to ID the disks but doesn't fill in the ID3 tags which means I have to do a second pass with another app to get the album art and track details I need for Navidrome. ☹️

And that's us all caught up, Stay Lucky.