Random musings—mostly for me, but you might accidentally find something useful too
🃏 Poker league night on Saturday. Went into game 10 tied for the lead with Harry. Managed to take the win! Katey took 2nd, so we properly cleaned up 🥳 Now 3 points clear at the top of the league with two games to play.
💉 Flu jab done – yay vaccines! 👍️
⚽️ Was supposed to be watching Katey's son Tobey referee a football match on Saturday morning but the game was postponed due to Storm Amy rolling in 🌧️ ☹️
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: -0.1 kg
💪 Back at the gym again this week; only one session but used more machines and stayed for longer.
🎟️ Tried and failed to watch Hamilton at the cinema. Twice.
❤️ Best. Sunday. Ever.
🍔 Home-made smash burgers on Sunday with Katey were top tier 😋
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: -0.1 kg
💪 First time back at the gym in almost a decade!
🎟️ Apollo 13 (1995) ★★★★½ (rewatch)
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: -0.9 kg
👕 Lost enough weight to drop a size so bought some new t-shirts
🍫 O2 gave me a £10 voucher for M&S Food so got a £20 box of truffles (discounted to a tenner) for free 😋
🧱 Spent Sunday afternoon building another LEGO F1 car and watching 90's movies
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.2 kg
💼 First full week in the new job, on the floor with my team 👊
🎟️ Jaws (1975) 50th Anniversary IMAX screening ★★★★½
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.25 kg
🃏 Played in our monthly poker league on Saturday. Not great on my part: finished 8th out of 9 players. Somehow still top (now joint) of the leaderboard with three to go 🤷🏻♂ Katey, however, crushed it with a royal flush 🔥
💼 Final week of training… done! Join my team next week 👍️
🍹 Popped into Vintro Lounge in Blackpool for a cocktail and picked up one of these little passports. Let's see how many stickers we can get! 📘
🎟️ Nobody 2 (2025) ★★★☆☆
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.4 kg
📡 Booked tickets to watch Interstellar at Jodrell Bank in October as part of their sci-fi season 😍
🐓 Cheeky cheat meal: KFC chicken and gravy with homemade mash 😋
⛳️ Hit the driving range for some practice for the first time in over a decade; playing a round next week!
🎟️ Weapons (2025) (IMAX) ★★★★☆
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.8 kg
📝 Finally completed the formal training at work after five straight weeks. Met my team and new boss; think I've landed on my feet! 🥳
🌞 Another warm spell; about 25°C every day this week
🏋🏻♂ No weigh-in this week as my friend used one of her “hall passes” (and it applies to both of us). Took advantage and ate well, but back on it again now.
As the year goes on and I'm 60+ films deep (and I look back at last year's 100+ ratings), it's dawned on me that I rate far too many films as 7 or 8 out of 10 and very few films 5/10 (I don't think I've ever given below a 4/10).
It skews my ratings artificially high and devalues the top ratings for those films that deserve it. Conversely, the stinkers don't get singled out either. To demonstrate this, my Letterboxd ratings are were* a mess. A different approach is needed.
*Letterboxd ratings now amended!
🥳 My daughter turned 21! 🎈🎉
🍕 Pizza and a catch-up with my sister; was going to watch a movie but yapped until nearly midnight instead!
♟️ Started learning to play Chess with a paid subscription to Chess.com and following the lessons. I've known the basics since I was a kid, but it's been a great refresher and I'm also learning plenty of new stuff. If you want to play with me, my username is: MRN44T
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.3 kg