Whenever I see some sort of “how to be well” article that includes the line “Avoid going to bed stressed, angry, upset, or nervous” my reaction is always something like…

Ha. Ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! wheeze.

I do love YOW. But it could also have the monicker “The Annual Scourging of the Javascript Devs”.

Black Swans swim on the ocean! I had no idea. This feisty bastard chased away the fishing pelican we were watching while having our morning coffee.

I just want to wear a nice coat damn it. Everyone else gets to!

I can tell I’m going to be one of those insufferable old gits who calls a highland storm a “brisk morning” and goes for a determined constitutional.

Proof I’m not designed for this climate: the temperature just dipped below 20 and everyone on the bus has leather jackets and heavy coats on. The bus driver has turned on the heating!

Meanwhile I’m just bordering between comfortable and slightly sweaty.

Building up my personal “Last Chance to See” list for Australia before I go (and chances are they’ll be gone before I return):

1. Koalas (without intervention, extinct outside of zoos within the decade)
2. The Great Barrier Reef (just gotta mine that coal)

I think headphones that sound good and also don’t hurt my head might be my white whale.

Bower & Wilkins PX: perfect sound, hurt with my glasses AirPods: fall out of my tiny ear canals QC35s: sound like bum Beyerdynamic DT770s: not portable

I resolved my terrible query drama by disabling the health check that runs the query. We have redundant health checks on that data anyway. Now everything is happy again. But I still don’t know why that particular query is forever doomed now.