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So the other day I had my yearly opticians appointment and as part of that they blinded me with a machine that supposedly images the back of your eyeball. The photos they took, very tasteful subdued and flattering, of the back of my eyeballs showed a bit of bleeding. So I had to go to an ophthalmologist to check it. They took more pictures after blinding me this time with eye drops and confirmed there was something there.

So I was then required to go down stairs and get one of my arms drained of blood for "testing" purposes.

I mean, how can you fuck it up so badly?

I know the sequels were trash. I know the original can very much be accused of fridging...but there was a simple elegance to the orginal, undercut with some amazing cinematography, which was very much done on a budget.

[Spoilers ahead for The Crow (1994) and The Crow (2024)]

There are a handful of films I can quote almost verbatim. Dodgeball, Princess Bride, the original Star Wars trilogy , and Clue!.

I'm a bit unfit. Not massively but there are some days where I just don't leave the house! I need an activity that's fun in of itself and isn't running because fuck that. What I did like about running is that doing couch to 5K gave me something of a challenge or a game to play. I'm on Strava and that's great for nerding out on maps, stats and so on but it's not really a game. I'm having to overlay my own shit onto it and that's what you have here.

This is mainly for Rob, in response to his "I can't get back to sleep" Facebook post last night.

After the success of the first bike build, back in winter, I've now done my second. Again it's in response to the new environment, though this time a bit more fun.

The FPV goggles appear to be a migraine trigger so I'll be saying goodbye to my drones. It's frustrating and numbing.

I could wait, I could try different things but I don't really have spare time to maintain them and tweak them as is the hobby. In the last 6 days I've had a total of 30 minutes to myself just before bed. Most days I just pass out exhausted.

Just before Christmas I had a vivid learning experience on the bike...namely how in wet, downhill conditions rim brakes on bikes are simply not that good. Once I'd picked myself up, and done the ride-of-shame home, I decided that I needed to sort out a proper winter bike sooner rather than later.

2024 is hopefully going to be a year focused around settling into Harrogate. Previous years tend to end up themed;

In 2020, when Google Music was taken down and replaced by the awful, awful Youtube Music...where a number of features were sudenly locked behind a paywall, I committed to having my own music hosting, rather than rely on a 3rd party.