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Now

Last updated on Saturday 2 December 2023.

Just two-and-a-half days of school left and then Speech Day. This time next week I’ll be flying to Penang.

Life

Calvin has already left for Bangkok, so I’m chilling at home by myself. I’ll join him in Penang next Saturday night, where we’re staying at the Eastern & Oriental Hotel, which is where he used to stay as a kid. It’s on the waterfront and it looks dashed colonial to me. Apparently Pol Pot stayed there once. They don’t seem to have named a room after him.

After that, Ipoh (which I’ve never visited before; Cousin Michelle comes from there) and Kuala Lumpur. Then back home in time for Christmas.

School

School finishes completely on Thursday. There will be things for me to do during the holidays, but I’m not going to think about them in earnest until I get back.

Podcasting

Doctor Who made a triumphant return on 25 November, and with a new era of Doctor Who comes a new flashcast, The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire. We released our first episode, based on The Star Beast, on 27 November: we’ll be releasing Wild Blue Yonder on Monday 4 December, and The Giggle on Monday 11 December. (From Penang. I’m taking my second-best podcasting microphone with me.)

We’ve released a second monthly episode of Startling Barbara Bain already. Planning for this to be monthly. We’ve definitely had fun doing both of them already.

Tomorrow, Flight Through Entirety is releasing its discussion of the last episode of Series 9, Hell Bent. Which means we will release the retrospective next Sunday (edited before I leave and released from Penang). Before that, we’ll record our Christmas episode on Wednesday, after Brendan gets back from overseas and before I leave.

This Friday’s Untitled Star Trek Project episode is our Holiday Special, and to celebrate we’ll be watching our second ever Star Trek movie, 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

And Maximum Power continues its march through Series C, of course, finishing early in the New Year.

Websites

The websites for the two new podcasts are both up now, Startling Barbara Bain and The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire. The second website is particularly nice, thanks to James’s brilliant logo design.

Already planning my upcoming contribution to the world of using Eleventy to create podcast websites. Stay tuned.

What I’m enjoying

For the first time in a long time, I’m properly excited about Doctor Who again. Last week’s The Star Beast was just wonderful. And I’m waking up to a whole new episode tomorrow morning. There are three new episodes being released this month; that hasn’t happened since November 2021. If you want to hear more about that, of course, remember to like and subscribe.