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Last updated on Saturday, 28 June 2025.

Term II ended yesterday, and I’m taking long service leave in Term III. Which means that I won’t be back at school until the middle of October. I’m at the start of a three-and-a-half-month break, so what am I up to now?

Life

I’m going away at the end of August. I’ll be spending four weeks in Greece, first visiting Athens and then travelling around the Cyclades. After that, I’ll go to the UK for two weeks. I’ll be spending some time with my friend and Untitled Star Trek Project co-host Joe Ford. And I’ll try and catch up with everyone else as well.

In the meantime, I’m planning to spend the next two months being more physically active, doing some creative web stuff, and catching up on media. But first I’m going to spend a couple of days tying up some loose ends at work.

School

I got quite a lot done at the end of Term II, and so I can start my break more or less guilt-free. But during school holidays there are always things that still need to be done. This time, instead of procrastinating about those things until the end of the holidays, I’m already at work on some of them. So this weekend, I’ll do a big review of all my task lists, and by Tuesday I aim to have completed the small number of important tasks that need to be done.

Podcasting

Series 2 of 500 Year Diary is nearly finished. The second last episode will go out tomorrow and the final episode will go out the following week.

At the start of June, The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire finished an eight-week run covering Season 2 of the Ncuti Gatwa era. With no new Doctor Who plans announced, it’s impossible to say whether it’s finished or not. Still, it has been fun to do, and I think it turned out very well.

Startling Barbara Bain is now more than halfway through the first series of Space: 1999. I’m hoping we might get one or two more episodes in before I go away.

And of course Untitled Star Trek Project continues its (more or less) regular weekly release cycle. It’s so much fun and so easy to do: I get to hang out with Joe and watch Star Trek. (Which is among the things we plan to do together when we catch up in person in September.)

Websites

During a busy Term II, I came up with lots of ideas for improvements to the podcast websites, but with no time to do them, I just added them to a big list. Now I have as much time as I want to work on them.

I recently posted an introductory post on the Eleventy Discord and mentioned the Podcaster plugin. It hasn’t been a viral sensation or anything remotely approaching that, but there has been a slight uptick in interest. So I would like to revamp its website: which would mean redesigning it, adding a full tutorial, and perhaps even creating a starter project to help aspiring podcasters create their website.

And perhaps at the end of the year, Podcaster version 2.0 might even be a thing.

What I’m enjoying

I bought a Nintendo Switch 2 on release day. Both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have been updated for the new console, which means I’ve spent the last three weeks experiencing Hyrule at a higher frame rate and more detailed textures than ever before.

And with two months off, I should be able to catch up on the media I’ve been neglecting. I’m still up to Episode 4 of the second series of Andor, and I haven’t finished Star Trek: Prodigy Series 2 yet. After that, who knows? I’m open to recommendations.