Notes From The Engine Room 17 / 2022
Meta Letta When I previously wrote that I was going to aim for a monthly schedule for the newsletter, truth be told I didn't really mean it. I expected to...
Notes From The Engine Room 16 / 2022
Meta Letta Well, I think we can safely say the schedule has slithered out of my grasp just a little bit; this is only the second newsletter since the end of...
Notes From The Engine Room 15 / 2022
Meta Letta Welcome back! What do you think would work better? Pretending I didn't miss my deadlines by weeks, or pretend that this would always be the...
No Notes From The Engine Room - Summer Break
Never Meta Letter I Didn't Like I really should have sent this out last week, even the week before. It just goes to show that hope lives eternal, even in the...
Notes From The Engine Room 14 / 2022
Meta Letta As I write this introduction I'm on day three of testing positive for COVID. Again. It's a milder affair than last time by far, but that just...
Notes From The Engine Room 13 / 2022
Meta Letta "Nomenclature" - That's what I wrote in the draft version of this section, an aide memoir that I would then fill in when the time came. Well, the...
Notes From The Engine Room 12 / 2022
Meta Letta I think one thing that keeps me writing these newsletters is that it's pretty much the only remaining thing that I still write these days. Gone...
Notes From The Engine Room 11 / 2022
Meta Letta Ceasing work on my dayjob, hobby and side-hustle, to go and write a newsletter that few people really care about is absurd, adding to my mental...
Notes From The Engine Room 10 / 2022
Meta Letta It's gotten to the point where I might as well start sending these out entitled Apologies from the Engine Room. An apparently significant downside...
Notes From The Engine Room 9 / 2022
Meta Letta Things have been erratic of late: my adherence to schedule, my focus, the quality of my writing and photography. The only truly consistent...
Notes From The Engine Room 8 / 2022
Meta Letta I seem to have lost the ability to measure the passing of time. Not only did my ability to perceive, measure and control get away from me this...
Sounds from the Engine Room - 9 / 2022
Having a week off really messes around with your perception of time. Throw in a few bank holidays and a packed work schedule, and it appears that newsletters...
Notes From The Engine Room 7 / 2022
Meta Letta My plan was to write this yesterday, Friday. My thought was that writing it fast, and in a delirium born of stress and poor sleep, would allow me...
Sounds from the Engine Room - 7 / 2022
What's this? What happened to the weekly schedule?! Sadly this is not a return to weekly newsletters — the fortnightly schedule works better for me, so I...
Notes From The Engine Room 6 / 2022
Meta Letta Does your life go in seasons? I don't mean feeling dreary and SAD in winter, only to come alive when the sun comes out; blooming like cherry...
Notes From The Engine Room 5 / 2022
Meta Letta You know, I might just declare Friday to be The Day from now on; I have more time to myself on a Friday and I've not been hitting a Thursday...
Notes From The Engine Room 4 / 2022
Meta Letta You know, these newsletters would be a lot easier to write without the spectre of disease hanging over me? Last time it was the last embers of a...
Notes From The Engine Room 3 / 2022
Meta Letta Here we are again, welcome to the contents and product of my mind! To my surprise, one of the unexpected complications of switching to a...
Notes From The Engine Room 2 / 2022
Meta Letta If there's one thing I've learnt about myself, it's that just because I give myself more time to do something doesn't mean that I won't try and...
Notes From The Engine Room 1 / 2022
Meta Letta Happy New Year! Can you believe it's 2022? The year in which the classic disaster movie Geostorm was set; the year of Dead Rising 4. Welcome to...