Tense, waiting for a visa a few days before a flight you’ve already booked to a hotel you’ve already paid for. Big plastic envelope arriving 3 days before the flight. Has her passport in it which is maybe stamped Schengen and maybe not, don’t know until it’s in your hands. You have to do it that way, they don’t let you apply for the visa unless you already have a flight and hotel booked.

The visa worked out. We met up in Gatwick airport, ate spicy chicken, drank virgin marys, boarded the plane. Security was quick and painless. Landed in Malaga. Border control was quick and pain-free.

Got on a bus. Picked up the keys from a lockbox in Princesa. Headed to the apartment. Ate KFC at the beach just after sundown. Pretty sunset, heavy clouds, golden beams for borders and lime green and orange stripes along horizon. Nosotres fuimos al DIA por la mañana for eggs and mozarella and stuff for the hair and face. After coffee and breakfast, a walk along the beach and into the town centre. I dosed us both with Benedryl, for allergies, without realizing it was going to take us entirely out of commission. Very cloudy day on a very sunny day. A lot of coffee. Laid down on the bench, head in lap.

The patch where I spilt water 12 hours later wet with tears. I can’t answer these questions, though I’m trying, not in words. And omelettes, and patatas bravas, and an hamburgeusa. It’s been a tiring holiday. Enjoyable for the most part but I really need to take a break. Tomorrow we get on a aeroplane to Stroopwafel & Snert to see lil ol’ lb. Today we went in a photo booth in the middle of the street.

It’s time to go to sleep now maybe. Got to get up early to be treated like a convict by a low-priced airline.

🖖😎🤞

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i turned on copilot, it keeps suggesting i add this comment:

// todo this is a bit of a hack

and this one:

// todo this is a bit of a mess

i’ve spent the week writing an app at nights

made a corned beef. unfortunately, it’s the second best corned beef i’ve ever made. i over-spiced it. i’ve only made two corned beeves.

the workers day bank holiday snuck up on me this time!

next time we speak i’ll be in Malaga, getting like berries—providing visas work out.

it’s so scary to have to book a holiday before you can get a visa!!! we’re fly on friday and they haven’t even told us yet if we can go!

i’ve been working on designing the ideal app architecture for a solid-automerge app. so far i’ve reïnvented MVVM.

👍😎🆒

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have a good week

it was enjoyable walking around meeting those geese last week. they say hooink hoink hoink, and they’re right.

i’ve made a multiplayer version of the new york times spelling bee game for me and zippers to play throughout the day. it’s great fun. feel free to enjoy it.

we went to the throwbacks to watch the royal tenenbaums, what a nice time!.

i am SO TIRED. there’s a cafe around the corner.

let’s all say “beep beep”. honk if you love honking. it’s been a nice week. nice weekend. played cards, found a nice indian restaurant, ate vinadloo. salt lassi is nice.

i know how to use the computer :)

Let me have your attention for a moment! ‘cause you’re talking about what? you’re talking about…

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it’s great when you wake up from a nightmare and it turns out the worst thing in the world hasn’t happened and it’s just normal in bed

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so last week i handed in my notice, and i’m starting a new job in just over a month. what a thrill. seven and a half years i was at this company. i’ve had genders that didn’t last that long.

i’m always surprised when i visit other areas of london. i forget that all that stuff is out there, and so close by. i hope i’ll learn one day to leave the house every day. can’t seem to get out the door most days. often i just lie there looking out the window wondering how to get outside.

we went to a concert, it was really good. dancing like a snake in a wicker basket. swaying and chittering. i could smell grass and feel the open air on my skin, and the walls behind them flicker blue sky. it ended early too which was nice because it’s good to sleep at night.

i was sick again a lot of the week, but i’m okay now. rode the train, blue and brown, underground. went all the way to maida vale to rest.

did you enjoy your long weekend? you can have a nice date at a KFC. and 420 in the park. that beckenham place park is really nice. it’s so big! and full of dogs and pretty flowers. they had a fridge with only sparkling water and Palestine Cola. nice pizza and great coffee (square mile beans & estate dairy milk).

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🌻 springtime 🌻

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do any of you other computer programmers who do it for work and fun enjoy writing bad code in your spare time? no-bem css, mutable state, everything all tangled up together. it’s relaxing like pyjamas

Accelerationists are having a good year, huh.

no no no
no

It’s weird that Michael Cera is the same age now as he was in Superbad, but Jonah Hill is like 40 years older.

it just started to get better

i’ve been watching all of Hal Hartley’s movies.

this is huge. i’m so happy for you

Spent some of the week sick, I guess I’ve been overdoing it.

oh fuck you

Trying to pull myself out of a tailspin now.

😳 oh no, but also hooray

I migrated my blog from my own server to netlify.

EEEEK

Went to an algorave with Lucky. Before that we hit up a Venezuelan place for some delicious arepa.

i am going to be so sad

I know somewhere inside me I’m happy and excited, so it’s strange that I’m reacting by falling into a mild depression where i sit in one place and eat Quavers and Skips.

chee I’m furious obviously

My planning whiteboard is wiped clean now and just has the blue text “i did it.”

oh mate! good luck to you and i’m sorry you’re off, but pleased for you if you are pleased about it

I’ll bring the trash out, put a wash on, have a shower, do the hair routine, put the bed away.

thanks for letting me know Chee

Though, I said that yesterday. And I’m still sitting here in the same spot.

whhhaattttt

Perhaps I need a reason. A reason to get moving.

There are no words that can describe this spanner in the works! How are you feeling about it though?

Or qualudes.

Omg

I had a job interview last week.

Good luck for what’s coming next

And another, and another, and another.x

It’s a very sad day for me :(

And another, and another, and another.

ooh! 😭

That process is over now.

I’m so happy for you

My blood sugar is running high at the moment. Having high blood sugar makes it more likely you’ll get sick. Getting sick raises your blood sugar.

wow!!!

It’s time to start a new temperance movement. Let me know if you’d like to be a part of Dry England. We’ll be writing letters and smashing up bottles and doing speeches about the devil’s brew.

We have not spoken often. When we have I have enjoyed your wisdom and kindness. It is sad that you are leaving.

I’m going to call a taxi now, and head to The Blues Kitchen.

I just want to say that you are a great engineer,  I don’t know many people as smart as you And I’m sorry I haven’t had the chance to get to know you better as a person

What do they have at The Blues Kitchen?