It’s not yet the end of March. I’ve just put the cushions on the outdoor chairs, and put the umbrella up to shade me from the sun as I sit in the garden drinking coffee. I’m about to cut the grass. And I can hear seagulls.

Mildly amusing that no one noticed the obvious mistake in my last post/tweet. Or they were too polite to say. It’s still visible on Twitter, fixed on my site.

Wordle on my phone is still at the original site. But my partner’s goes to the NYT. There’s no obvious reason for the difference, and there has been no practical difference.

Today we got different words. Mine, both obscure and not even an allowed word on the NYT. What?!

On this date of many ‘2’s (but just wait till the 22nd), here’s a nice sunset for you.

Sunset over Hackney
Sunset over Hackney

So if I run brew install python-tk, which should let me build basic GUI apps on Mac with Python, it says:

Error: python@3.9: the bottle needs the Apple Command Line Tools to be installed.
  You can install them, if desired, with:
    xcode-select --install

And running xcode-select --installgives me the following dialogue:

Ludicrous installation time
Ludicrous installation time

80 hours! To install some command-line tools!

(In fact it soon dropped to a more sensible 8 minutes, via 13, but still.)

Hackney Marshes on a Monday morning in October
This is what Hackney Marshes looks like on a Monday morning in October

My phone just reminded me that my dissertation is due right now. Which wouldn’t have been a very useful reminder if I had been planning to submit today, but had somehow – incredibly! – forgotten.

Luckily I’ve got a two-week extension. I plan to actually submit in the next two or three days, though.

Book me a front-row seat:

… because the new The Matrix movie looks incredible.

(I know the front row isn’t the best place to sit.)

Just found a typo in my diss: ‘Jeff the sandman,’ instead of soundman. Should probably be two words, ‘sound man,’ but anyway, an unexpected @NeilHimself-esque touch.

Today is Irony Day: Wetherspoon’s short on some beers as Brexit affects deliveries.

They blame ‘lack of lorry drivers and strike action.’ Hadn’t heard about a strike; does it exist? And more importantly, what on Earth could have caused a lack of drivers???