Despatches: Thu 12.3.26

For the last seven days I’ve been on early shifts, which, for me, means having to wake up somewhere between 3:30am and 4am each morning. Due to a severe lack of sleep it’s been a pretty exhausting week, but now that I’ve got a few days off I’m going to attempt clear at least some of the sleep debt I’ve accrued over the last few days by sleeping in as late as possible tomorrow morning. Very late indeed.

As I type this, it’s blowing a gale and bucketing it down with rain here in south west London, but, in typically British fashion the forecast for tomorrow and for the rest of the weekend doesn’t look too bad. If the weather holds up I just might pop into town on Saturday as there’s a few things I’d like to pick up – one of which is Yena’s new album and another is a pair of Levis flare jeans. No, really! They’re back in fashion, allegedly. Might also celebrate not having to move out of my flat by going to a restaurant for dinner but we’ll see how that goes.

As for the rest of my three-day weekend off, I’m gonna try and catch up on some reading and take things easy in preparation for another bunch of early shifts which start on Monday.

I just hope I’ll be able to get more sleep next week than I managed during the week just gone.

Liminal Spaces and Dead Malls

Although I couldn’t exactly tell you why, I’m absolutely fascinated with liminal spaces. So I was very happy to learn earlier this week that the final chapter of Dreamcore, which is my favourite liminal space video game by far, is now in development.

It goes without saying that I’m super excited about playing this ‘Dead Mall” level even though I’ll feel just a little bit sad that there’ll be no more new chapters of this incredible game to look forward to.

Currently Reading: Nuclear War: A Scenario

After reading her fascinating and deeply researched book about the history of Area 51, I was absolutely planning on getting this when it first came out in hardback, however, I’ve only just gotten around to picking up a paparback copy.

Welcome

Hi, Barry here. Welcome to the latest iteration of my personal blog where I will be posting about myself, my daily life and anything else that interests me.

Feels good to have a blog again. Just need to get back into the habit of writing here regularly.

So, let’s begin then, shall we?