- I had a couple more nights by myself this week while the rest were still away. I cooked myself an amazing ribeye steak (and filled downstairs with smoke), cooked (too much) curry and watched AI/sci-fi films. Nice to recharge my introvert batteries for a bit, but I was happy when the family hurricane returned.
- The boys (and L) were home in time to trick-or-treat our way around the village for Halloween. I’m not sure if our children are any more road-safe when running between homes, but at least our village neighbours were still happy to fill up their buckets with sweets.
- Five years this week since moving up to Hertfordshire from Surrey.
- I took C to Lego club on Saturday at the library. This week’s theme was Bonfire Night. Although he understood about Guy Fawkes and fireworks, he had firmly decided he wanted to build a fire-breathing dragon. His creation, technically on-theme, was therefore a big red dragon that spat out piles of fire to set Lego men on fire 🔥
- My parents then drove over to take the boys to the Harry Potter Studio Tour in Watford. The boys have both enjoyed the books and seen the age-appropriate parts of the films, but it was C that dressed up in his Potter shirt and hooded wizard’s cape and was bouncing off the walls with excitement. A big hit.
- We blitzed through season two of the excellent Diplomat. Even better than the first.
- During the quieter moments this week I’ve resurrected my ActivityPub server project and have been happily hacking away. I’m focusing on the server-to-server parts first, but I plan to implement a Mastodon-compatible API. There’s a lot of Bluesky buzz about right now, but building for ActivityPub seems a lot more accessible.
