Just passed 500 hours on the latest Football Manager. The previous version I totalled 700+. There's at least 5 months till the next one comes out so i'm on track.
Monday, 23 May 2022
Birthday / final day of the fantasy football competition
It was our friend's birthday party on Sunday and it also coincided with our annual meet up for the fantasy football group we're in.
Who's going to win
We went on a family walk on Sunday morning with the kids and the dog. Arthur's getting much better but we still have to carry him for much of the way.
Arthur's birthday
It was Arthur's 2nd birthday on Saturday and we hired a local hall for him and some of his closest friends from the nursery to enjoy the fun.
Friday, 20 May 2022
Arthur's two tomorrow!
It's Arthur's 2nd birthday tomorrow. We've got a big party planned at a local venue where we've got an indoor bouncy castle set to arrive. He will never remember this but April will and that's what it's all about...
Interesting social media interactions...
I'm off most social media these days, mostly because I feel the bad sides of it out weigh the things I enjoy.
In order to post videos to this blog I tend to upload them to YouTube rather than save them locally then upload. Lazy on my behalf but what can you do? By putting them on YouTube it makes them publicly available and some get quite a few views.
What interests me is the amount of likes some of the videos get, or more specifically the amount of dislikes. The highest views i've had for one of my videos is approximately 2.5k, but the ones that seem to get the most traction sit at around the 1k mark. I generally get 80% likes ratio which on the face of it sounds good, but when I really think about it, it's pretty shit. Not many of my friends (who know I have a blog) actually bother clicking on the videos anyway as I can see quite a few only have 1 or two views or on some even 0. Ignoring that, my point is who would actually bother moving their mouse to the dislike button? 95% of my videos are about my dog or my children. Fair enough, you might not be interested in my dog or my children but to actively make the effort to dislike it??? I think there's something wrong with you. I'm glad I don't use social media and i'm glad i'm not you
Not many out dog walking this afternoon
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Last night was fun
This morning's walk
I forgot to bring Flo's school back with us this morning so I had to go home and pick that up which means i've now done 17k steps before work. Here are some photos
Rugby posts coming down for the summer months
Not sure why they bother as they'll only have to put them back again in August / September. Maybe it's to give the ground a bit of a rest from supporting the weight.
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Steps
I managed to download my step counter data from Samsung Health but it was in a pretty poor state to easily manipulate and make sense of. I'm sure it all makes sense to proper developers but I didn't have the time or inclination to sort it out. In the end I went old school and typed out the data.
I'm not that fussed about daily data, more interested in trends so just copied out the monthly data for steps and distance going back to September 2016. That must be when I first started using Samsungs.
Any way here are the highlights...
Monday, 16 May 2022
Ice cream defence
April was in town today and was picking up Arthur later that usual. As a special treat I took Flo to the posher ice cream shop on the way home. Here she is defending her ice cream.
Anyone else get one of these?
Call to the sea
Flo does ballet at her school on Fridays, I was shown a glimpse of one her new moves "Call to the Sea". The dog was very close to getting trodden on.
Nothing better than a bbq in the rain
Steve's family popped over for a bbq on Sunday. Despite the forecast for the rain to be gone by late morning it persisted all day. Grr... Not to worry, we still went on with it. Afterwards we took the dogs out for a walk and also had a go on the model trains.
Sunday, 15 May 2022
Saturday, 14 May 2022
Tuna tortillas
Friday, 13 May 2022
Didn't dare
Drastic improvements from yesterday
Arthur on is way to nursery this morning. So much faster.
Well done Arthur. Now to work on the steering.Making crop circles
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Tuesday's session
I've missed the odd session recently as the game has clashed with Liverpool playing but made it this week. We've completely derailed the plot of Dragon Heist and next session we've got to fight an enlarged beholder, think Godzilla size (brought upon by our secretly evil artificer setting off a home made nuclear bomb), through the streets of Waterdeep whilst wearing giant statues, think Pacific Rim. Should be fun. We're up to level 6 too.
Cat in a bath
I don't post many cat photos these days. Poor Josie doesn't get much attention. So here's a photo of her in the bath for all those fans out there.
Scoot scoot!
Flo went to school on her scooter this morning, Arthur decided to do the same. He took a bit longer.
Today's walk photo
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Having a wonderful time
Arwen on her walk this morning. She's having the best time searching for something. Not sure what, but she's absolutely loving it.
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Monday, 9 May 2022
Florence leading the orchestra
April took Flo to a woodwind concert on Saturday and they asked for volunteers
Green party quiz antics
It was the Green party's annual quiz on Friday night so the core of the Tonbridge Massive turned out en force to show them all that we meant business. Not the business of quizzing mind, we came 5th out of 10, we of course meant the business of drinking wine, we we finished very drunk.