A playlist on Apple Music on the Sonos: “Alternative Hits: 1978.” And man is it good. But as they say, the golden age of music is 14…

Went for a drink & meal with an old uni friend. Talked of family, health, politics, jobs, and Doctor Who. And really, what else is there?

On a long weekend in Cornwall. Drive down on Friday was longest ever, so not looking forward to drive back tomorrow, but it’s been good.

Yesterday’s mysterious post was not meant to be a post at all. Instead it was a reply to a comment on Micro.blog. But something went wrong and I posted it without the reply’s @-name at the start so it appeared as a full-fledged post, and got crossposted to Twitter and Facebook as usual.

I’m going to leave it in place as a learning experience.

Nice. That makes sense.

My site was down for a couple of days. You probably didn’t notice. These things happen when you’re on holiday, it seems. The nice people at Linode were very helpful, though, and it’s all back up now.

The Rolling Donut, Dublin. Highly recommended. Good to remember how good donuts can be if you don’t get misspelled American ones.

A pint of ice-cold Guinness in a pub in Dublin
A pint of ice-cold Guinness in a pub in Dublin

Ice-cold Guinness. I’m reminded of the late Bob Shaw…

At Holyhead, on the ferry for Dublin. It’s taking a while to get going, though.

Test posting to my site from Quill. I’ve no idea whether this will work.

Further to this morning’s post, it looks like I’ll be in the City for a while, and only going to the client’s site later, or occasionally. Which is good news for my commute.

On my way to first day at the new job. This is at the consultancy’s offices in the City, though, for induction, not at the client’s site.

Just realised that ‘Blue Monday’ gets its drum pattern from ‘Get Off of My Cloud.’

I’m pretty sure that all of these are meant to be autumnal. Yet here it’s early August — high summer — and there they are, growing madly.

First time anyone has asked me for a more detailed CV. But hey, I can write about myself till the cows come home.

Weird. I go to Ted Leo’s Soundcloud page. A track by someone called Lil Purpp starts playing. Nothing to do with Leo or the page I’m on, as far as I can see.

This is what Virgin Trains calls a window seat now.

Monster sky out my window. And time I tried some photos with this new phone.

Wait, Now ATP has gone back to the old outro theme. Was last week’s just a one-off? I’m so confused.

[@colinwalker](https://micro.blog/colinwalker) Did you know that your blog’s search page for the term is the second hit on DuckDuckGo for #indieweb? Quite impressive.