Posts from 2025-08.
7 August 2025
🔄Found a better workaround to the problem than the original solution.
🥱 Decided to put off some work that could go horribly wrong until I was less tired. It shouldn’t, and probably won’t, but I didn’t have the emergency overhead headspace to deal with fixing things today.
⬆️ Love watching my kid morph into an adult.
6 August 2025
🏊🏻♀️ A quiet swimming pool is always good.
💡Realising there’s probably a simpler cleaner longer term solution to a server problem that’s annoying me. I’m bashing my head on the immediate issue when zooming out to see the bigger picture would be more productive.
🐼Having fun playing Planet Zoo and letting my mind wander.
5 August 2025
🦋 Butterflies are amazing. These ones blended into the tree trunks when stationary but were sparkling blue while flying. I managed to snap a pic of it stationary but not quite closed up that shows the blue.
🐈 The black jaguar asleep looking just like an overgrown domestic cat. You could just about make out its black-on-black rosette markings.
🤗 Two lemurs asleep in the sun. One using the other’s tail as a pillow.
4 August 2025
💥 Eventually stumbling on the proper search term for a concept and the subsequent explosion of results.
🍂 A very autumnal feel to the day. Which is probably bad for early August but I’ve had enough of heatwaves and I like autumn.
🎵 Singing “we’re all going to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow”.
3 August 2025
😊 Watching someone who I’ve seen struggle to understand games getting to grips with a game and obviously really enjoying themselves.
🧶 One seam of the blanket of a thousand ends is sewn together.
🐈 Sleeping cat looks very peaceful.