21 Sep 2025
This blog post is being written in the middle of conker season in the UK. Yesterday me and my lovely, knowledgeable partner walked through Greenwich Park which has both sweet chestnuts and horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are the ones used as conkers, whereas sweet chestnuts are the ones you can cook for a delicious snack. Despite having walked through Greenwich Park a number of times I'd not realised it has both a deer enclosure and a pond with a fountain. It seems like we never appreciate the things closest to us.
So what has happened in my life since the last blog post? Well we made a last-minute decision to go to see Chappel Roan at Leeds Festival. That was pretty wild, but my passionate and intelligent partner had already missed out on multiple opportunities to see her live so this seemed like potentially the last opportunity in a long time. We also saw High Vis and The Chats, which lead me to buy High Vis' latest album. I've been working on a new page for this website, to list out all the albums I've bought, so it is easier to share my music purchases with other people. It isn't finished yet but I'm hoping it will be done in a few weeks.
On the way back from Leeds Festival we visited the National Space Centre, a great place to visit for the massive planetarium alone. Aside from that the Pi cluster is basically put togther from a hardware perspective, so I just need to install operating systems, Kubernetes, etc. I also had an idea for a video game that I don't think has ever been done before, so I'd like to put some concepts together and have a think about how all the systems would fit together.
I have a few other little side projects I'd like to put some time towards but Baldur's Gate 3 has been eating up loads of my time and with FC 26 releasing next week I suspect I won't have a lot of time for other things for a while.