Random musings—mostly for me, but you might accidentally find something useful too
👕 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
🍺 Went to the pub for a pay-day pint after work with my new colleagues
🃏 Played in our monthly poker league on Saturday; only six people this time, finished second. Extended my lead by four points with four games to go.
🧯 Completed the Fire and Bomb Warden training at work. Scored 100% on the test, so I can now officially put out fires with the correct extinguisher and defuse bombs. Maybe… 💣️💥
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.75 kg
📝 A full week of technical training and lots of note-taking. Looking forward to getting properly hands-on with some things next week.
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.9 kg
🗼 Finally made it up to the top floor of the new office building to check out the views from the café…
💼 Started the new job! An entire week of induction training, but totally enjoying it all. Got a great group of people I'm working with; we've all clicked really quickly. Next week we move on to technical training.
🇮🇹 Made a pretty good Spaghetti alla Carbonara for two (authentic, except I couldn't get guanciale so had to make do with pancetta) on Friday evening 😋
🏋🏻♂ Last week’s weight loss: –1.1 kg