To be fair, I wouldn’t even have known who he was.

What are we looking at here?

I self published two books and am very proud of them. Currently working on my third. The ideas are like little babies you craft into fully formed things, and it’s a journey to get there - like a jigsaw and the total number of pieces and the shape keep changing as you progress. I love the experience of piecing ideas into a whole, dropping clues and red herrings, building tension, working towards revelations.

Also this, in memory of Murphy:

I’m pretty sure snoop was famous for being a rapper rather than smoking weed.

She didn’t luck it. She schooled everyone in judo and they didn’t know how to deal with her, until someone did. And then she met Amanda Nunez.

Joe ‘Obvious Idiot’ Rogan? I’d take his views on MMA and not much else.

Favourite type of coordination is HAND-EYEEE!

This is the plot of a short story I published, apart from the genie. I shant tell you what happened, just in case.

I mean, people seem to think the apocalypse would be survivable, but that’s not how I understand it.

But for an impending survivable disaster, I’d get supplies and weapons and head to somewhere remote.

I have about 3000 tracks on my player in one folder playing on random. When my mum’s in the car and it’s something she doesn’t know, she’s all ‘turn that down, it’s so loud I can’t think’, but when it’s something she knows, she cranks that shit up and has no problem thinking.

The boss in my place brought in some guy as head of marketing who he picked himself and thinks is the bee’s knees. We have a closed customer base who, once they purchase our products, will buy spares for the next 30 to 40 years. We don’t really need marketing at all.

He does nice graphs and charts (that we don’t need), chats in constant gibberish business-speak, and makes things look fancy. That’s it.

He has recently been moved into an overarching position in control of technical and engineering teams he knows nothing about and can’t manage properly, and the shit will hit the fan real soon.

I can’t wait.

I’m 44, have written 3 books, and read an awful lot. First time coming across furphy.

A box? A fat?

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It’s a full time job for 18+ years, on top of the things already in your life. It isn’t easy, but god damn it’s fulfilling to see them grow. They do get very funny when they hit 3 or so and are grappling with language. They become proper little people.

Slightly related: One thing I’d suggest is opening an email account for them, and any time they say or do something funny or memorable, send an email about it. I love reading through the hilarious things they’ve said across the years that you forget about, and I’ll give them the account when they’re older.

Personal faves are my 3 year old calling a compass a clock of the world and my other one at 4 years old telling my retired boss, who had just told him he’s grown since she last saw him, that she’s also grown, into an old lady. Or saying, when he lost his favourite hat, ‘that hat was a piece of my heart.’

Why does the US have HOAs? I can’t think of other countries that have them, nor why they are really needed. Seems like a chance for power-hungry people to be little Hitlers over minutiae.