Notes
Short posts, quick brain dumps, interesting bits and bobs that don’t warrant a longer post.
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It’s Chocolate Egg Day!
Not being religious, teaching Jack that today is mostly about chocolate is going down well. But then he’s 4, everyday should be chocolate day according to him!
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Fly me to the moon
Orion (the spacecraft part of the Artemis mission), successfully managed the Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) Burn. This was the critical one to fully escape Earth and head towards the moon. If it had gone wrong, mission aborted and Orion brought back to earth. Phew!! Track it all here.
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Em Dash
I was a technical writer geek for many years, so I know full well about em (and en) dashes, and why they are called that, but what I hadn’t ever pondered was how they are used, especially in fiction. As ever 99% Invisible opened my — I was going to say eyes but it’s a…
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Can’t sleep won’t sleep
Jack awake at 5am with a cough. Headed through to comfort him and get him a glass of water. He sat up, took a drink, and was asleep again before his head hit the pillow. Meanwhile my brain is now firing on all cylinders, so here I am. Updating my Reminders, making notes, doing digital…
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Hi to a new look
After no amount of faffing (and there is still more faffing I want to do but I can do that in the background), the new look for Happily Imperfect has arrived. Nothing radical, but a subtle shift here and there, a new font, a new logo, and a new colour scheme. Just enough to freshen…
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Ditto
In rethinking where I publish my content Elliott Richmond captures my thoughts pretty well on this topic. So well that I won’t bother saying anything more, just go read it if you are (like I was) re-assessing the where of the what you produce.