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Last updated on Saturday 11 October 2025.

I got back from my six-week trip on Wednesday, I recovered from my jet lag this morning, and I’m going back to school on Monday. But after a three-and-a-half month break and with only seven-and-a-half weeks before my next holiday, I can’t possibly complain about that.

Life

I’m pretty relaxed right now, but even during this short Term IV there will be a lot to do. Back to the gym next week, back to hitting my daily activity goals, and continuing to lose weight (with a combination of portion control and the miracle of modern pharmaceutical technology).

Podcasting

While I was in the UK, I got the chance to record three episodes of Untitled Star Trek Project with Joe — that’s Episodes 166, 167 and 168. Now that I’m back, we’ll continue to record remotely (which is still fun but not quite as fun). Startling Barbara Bain recording will start up soon.

Once term gets properly underway, we’ll start recording a short season of 500 Year Diary called The Colour of Monsters, where we look at the decades-long contribution to Doctor Who of writer and script editor Terrance Dicks.

Websites

I’m working towards a Version 2.0 release of my Eleventy Podcaster plugin — it’s currently at 2.0.0-alpha.4. I’ve tidied the whole thing up and made it easier to use and to write documentation for; I’ve also added a couple of new features. Unless I can think of anything else to add, it’s pretty nearly finished. Once I finish writing the Version 2 documentation, I should be ready for a proper release by the end of the year.

What I’m enjoying

I watched two TV shows while I was on my trip.

Poker Face is Rian Johnson’s take on Columbo, starring Natasha Lyonne (from Russian Doll) as Charlie Cale, who is on the run from the mob, while solving murders in a variety of locations and subcultures. It’s solid and entertaining genre TV — funny, clever and beautifully directed. Lyonne is ridiculously charismatic.

BoJack Horseman is a hilariously silly and horribly bleak cartoon about a horse who starred in a crummy sitcom back in the 1990s, and who is now reviving his Hollywood career, while struggling with addiction and depression. This is a rewatch for me: I first started watching in 2019, I think, between its fifth and final seasons.

And I’m about halfway through my first ever reading of Moby-Dick. It’s pretty amazing — much stranger and funnier than I expected. The relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg at the beginning of the novel is surprisingly hot.