The problem with giving The Cat a treat is she then expects the same with every meal. Currently turning her nose up at the dry biscuits as they’re not chicken.

🚶 Escaped from work for the day and thinking about a longer escape. Walking along the river and mentally planning out my upcoming trip to Melbourne.

📺 Finished watching Paradise (Season 1, 2025) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of Season 1 of the television series Paradise. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great with Great selected. The review reads - A surprise reveal at the end of episode one had me hooked. There have been so many post cataclysmic event type shows but this one is clever and well done. The over-arching premise is there, threaded through each episode as the flashbacks slowly lead us to the present. The penultimate episode was very good and dived deep into the some lives are more important than others decisions.

🍿 Watched Riff Raff (2025). ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Riff Raff (2025). The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Did Bill Murray and Ed Harris owe someone a favour so they agreed to be in this? Jennifer Coolidge was Jennifer Coolidge. Fairly ordinary as movies go. Watchable but don’t expect anything much, billed as both a comedy and crime it can’t decide which one it wants to be and is a bit all over the place.

📺 Finished watching Silo (Season 2). ★★★½

A rectangular image with a review of Season 2 of the television series Silo. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great with Good selected. The review reads - Having read the books I quite enjoyed S2 as it has incorporated the important elements and kept a good balance between the different storylines. You know there is more to the story which is yet to be revealed, basically some good low key teasing of more to come. The hint at the end of what S3 might be about is promising.

My mentions tab is not showing anything after 2 March but I can still see replies as conversations under the relevant post. Is this a known issue @manton @help

All our corporate systems were down due to an authentication issue, except for email and teams. They’re like the cockroach of software, they will survive anything.

Mood.

It’s been a bit of a week and if another project needs something urgently because they forgot about it I probably will, literally, go into the carpark and scream!

An enamel badge depicting the figure with agonised face from Edvard Munch artwork The Scream.

Met my dealer in a dimly lit carpark last night after trivia to get some of the good stuff. 🐝

A plastic container with honeycomb and raw honey straight from a hive.

For a while now I’ve been removing US companies who have bent the knee to the orange grifter from my life. I recently bought a Kobo Clara Colour to replace my Kindle but couldn’t get a case from the local store at the time.

Ironically, it looks like my last purchase from Amazon will be a Kobo case.