The Last of Us is sooo boring

'The Last of Us' (TLoU) is sooo boring and trope-y. I really tried to like it but I wasn’t up to the task. Maybe if I knew and really liked the game and was high it would do something for me - the IMDb score is off the charts (9.1 at time of writing) so…

Impotence, anxiety, running, and shopping

What better way to start the new year than with a run to the shops? Ideally sans a panic attack. Here I mostly chat about things I didn't realise I was bad at primarily because of hangovers. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tdqBoGiC94nFyWGl0byom?si=b056a76ab23544a3

Assess your success and tame your inner Grinch – Christmas Edition

Final episode of season 1: Everyone knows they can be their own worst critic - but does that mean cruellest or simply the least capable of judging? I muse about my musical progress and why it took me so long to understand that I was, and probably still am, my biggest hurdle. https://open.spotify.com/episode/05xjw6dvJzbPy9KKCjZYX2?si=L32A_f8NQiuSNLMVLKr6tw

This pub was made for drinking, and Sainsburys hedge porn

Yet another rambling wander down memory lane: Six weeks of sobriety and I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I have no idea what to do with my spare time. In other news I use some time up reminiscing about the pornography of my youth. https://open.spotify.com/episode/62ZaJaDK0JmlGIZAOJtz0t?si=qVfOxH35T6S0zV_LXh7dIg

Why are we keeping women down in historical drama?

I've just started watching House of Dragons and I can't help but notice how they've set up a kind of mixed-mode morality where the handling of women gets left firmly in the past. Within two episodes we've got a mid-forties King being offered a 12-year-old, but settling for a 15-year-old as a wife - something…

Anxiety, opinions, and TikTok

It's easy to say everyone has anxiety these days, and to scoff about that whilst feeling anxious. I don't really believe we are all making up these feelings. In this podcast episode I ramble on about what the cause of at least some of the anxiety may be. I also mention Radio 4 and TikTok…

Podcast away, podcast away, podcast away!

I started a podcast today! Please follow it on Anchor, Spotify, Amazon, Google, and Apple. https://anchor.fm/nonapstillbedtime

The much-anticipated misery of being sober

I'm writing this at 15 days sober. Everything I (you) ever read or thought about sobriety is simultaneously right and wrong, positive and annoying, desirable and undesirable (for me) at this stage. I feel physically fine, sleep well, can get out of bed easily enough and so on, but also my joie de vivre has…

Windows Defender Device Control – default deny

I recently spent a bit of time troubleshooting a problem that my colleague was experiencing with Device Control behaving very oddly in Default Deny mode. The symptoms were that you could right-click and choose 'new text document' on approved removeable storage (a USB pen drive in our case) and it would make 4 inaccessible .txt…

Script to install all available SCCM Windows Updates

I'd seen a number other sites offering ways to do this and they worked well, but I ended up re-writing some parts and trying to make things a little simpler for our environment. I thought it might be handy for others so here you go... Credit must go to these sources for invaluable pointers /…