Sleep Review, November 1st to November 2nd, 2025: Don’t even ask. Turns out that eating two little satsumas (or maybe mandarin oranges? Who knows, they label all of them as those and I don’t really know the differences.) just before going to bed give the body enough to do to keep it from falling asleep. A lot of...

Another of these liminal weeks. There’s a lot of stuff I’d usually get pretty excited about and yet, what I mostly notice is the fall weather. Oh well.At least I went to the Christmas Markets in Basel already. Cleverly enough I had so much food at my sister’s birthday brunch that I didn’t really feel the need to...

Sleep Review, November 25th to to 26th, 2025: Weird, as it has been the last few nights. On paper more than enough sleep, my body feels pretty awake and rested.But oh boy, am I having a lot of weird dreams lately. Not nightmares, really. Not really dreams I can remember after waking up. But dreams that really...

How do you nice people reading my blog handle your Github account(s)? I’ve had my “main” account @lostfocus for ages and used it for pretty much everything I needed to do on Github. Now with my current employer our accounts are put into the SSO system, so I created a second account which went through a couple of...

Another calm-ish week. It’s dark, grey and cold as Novembers tend to be. The result is that my brain went into a weird waiting mode even though I should probably be starting to think about Christmas and finding some gifts. It’s just a few weeks away now. Reply by email

I’m slightly sorry that you got a bunch of my old posts if you are following this blog via ActivityPub/Mastodon/… – I was just moving them to a different category and it seems like that was deemed worthy of an update by the ActivityPub plugin. Reply by email

Irgendwann hat das Algorithmus von YouTube gedacht, ich müsse Manhunt Bangkok schauen. Ein großes Räuber-und-Gendarm-Spiel für “Influencer” in Bangkok. Irgendwie sind diese Art von YouTube-Serien wie 7 vs. Wild an mir vorbeigegangen und ganz ehrlich: wäre es eine andere Stadt hätte ich vermutlich auch nicht...

Two weeks into the SailNavSim Jules Verne Trophy the field starts to spread out. Something tells me I’ll not be in the very front once the race ends. Reply by email

You know what? I didn’t even take out the garbage. (As in: put the bin out. I took the garbage from my flat to the bin and the bin is still empty enough to wait for another circle.) I’m not even sure what to think about this week.Bad and good news from friends.A grey uniform light from morning to the way too early...

Haha, it was week 45. For once I’d be quite happy with a boring, normal week in which I have nothing to talk about. Maybe next week? The most exciting entry on my calendar for next week is a reminder to take out the garbage. Work-wise things keep being slightly irritating and often just weird. Yesterday was a...

Remember last week, when I was all relaxed and in a good mood? Yeah, that changed pretty quickly. Certain changes at work managed to give me such a mood-backlash that come Wednesday morning I finally made a decision that I’ve been putting off for quite a while.So now the rubicon has been crossed, let’s see […]

Remember back in the day when I talked about SailNavSim? For some reason I started playing it again last week and lo and behold, the guy who runs the game has opened an around-the-world race starting next Sunday. Luckily without the anxiety-inducing “celestial navigation” mode, so hey, why not join the race? It’s a...