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New macbook pro with M2 chip arrived today (yay) but the miles its racked up to get here … yikes. Data below from the DPD online tracker.

24 Jan

  • 14:49 local time: Departed Shanghai
  • 17:58 local time: Arrived East China Area

26 Jan

  • 21:54 local time: Departed East China Area

27 Jan

  • 02:29 local time: Arrived Hong Kong
  • 05:48 local time: Departed Hong Kong
  • 13:52 local time: Arrived Bahrain
  • 16:16 local time: Departed Bahrain

28 Jan

  • 01:48 local time: Arrived Leipzig Germany
  • 03:59 local time: Departed Leipzig Germany
  • 04:55 local time: Arrived Midlands UK

30 Jan

  • 01:26 local time: Departed Midlands UK
  • 06:20 local time: Arrived Maidstone UK
  • 09:01 local time: Out for delivery
  • 16:04 local time: Missed delivery (Oops)
  • 18:12 local time: Arrived Maidstone UK

31 Jan

  • 09:04 local time: Out for delivery
  • 13:42 local time: Delivered!

Some assumptions, but I’m thinking at least 3 flights and probably around 7 truck journeys. Now I need to figure out the carbon offset for all this…

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Finished The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer. A crime fiction novel written by Bob Mortimer — what more can I say? If you’re a fan of any of his work this will be an immediate 10/10. For those not familiar it may be a bit of a challenge; the details he goes in to can be unusual, but do bear with it — plenty of twists and turns to keep you interested.

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Obsessed with Ian McKellen’s blog while he was playing Gandalf in the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, split in to The Grey Book and The White Book — how has this slipped me by?!

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Finished Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities this eve and there were some misses but overall a great ebb and flow of horror anthologies. Highly recommend going in to episode 7 “The Viewing” without knowing what its about, the cast are brilliant in this episode — Peter Weller in particular — my favourite episode of the lot.

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Our long weekend away started with dinner in The Chequers. Jam rolly-polly and custard for pud and now looking forward to a bag of Space Raiders at tomorrows tuck time to complete the school nostalgia.

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Coming to realise that if your design system documentation looks, behaves and performs better than the products you are serving, thats adoption not being met and thats a problem.

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Listening: Previewing Tropic Morning News from the upcoming First Two Pages of Frankenstein — The National. Much of the same, which is no bad thing.

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Tempted by the new Macbook Pro with M2 Pro or M2 Max chip. I’m keen by the M2 Max but debating the need for all that power, especially for digital design and development projects. But I do want to experiement with 3D… Something to noodle on.

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