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Now

Last updated on Friday 3 April 2026.

It’s Good Friday — the very start of the Easter Holidays — and I won’t be back at school until Monday fortnight. How on earth will I keep myself occupied?

Life

It’s been nearly a year since I started losing weight in earnest (with the help, as I’ve said before, of modern pharmaceutical technology). In that time, I have lost over 26 kilograms, and my blood pressure is now back under control. There’s still more to do here, but I’m definitely on track.

Sleep is still a bit of a problem, but I haven’t really worked out what to do here. Regular early nights help, I think.

Otherwise, nothing much to report. No holidays planned or anything. Things are going well.

School

Nothing much to report here either. The school itself seems to be in a good place, and I’m still enjoying teaching the kids. The Lingua Latina course continues to make things interesting. (I think teaching it is improving my Latin as well.)

There’s some schoolwork to catch up on during the holidays: there always is. The trick is to do a small amount each day. But I never ever actually do that.

Podcasting

500 Year Diary Season 4 has been recorded, and its second last episode will be out on Sunday. It’s been going well. Season 5 is in the planning stages now: it focuses on Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks and the writer of the two missing Doctor Who episodes released on iPlayer today. It will be called Taranium Core.

Untitled Star Trek Project continues, of course. Our most recent episode was on what might be the best episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Our next episode will be on a pretty amazing Deep Space Nine episode. Happy days.

Websites

My Eleventy Podcaster plugin is now at Version 2.1, and I’ll be working on 2.2 these holidays. It will add better validation — warning users if they’ve left out any information needed to create their podcast feed.

But my main Podcaster-related project will be to incorporate Podcaster into an Eleventy starter. An Eleventy starter is a sample website that people can copy and adapt to make websites of their own. Hoping to make some progress on that these holidays. It would be good to release Version 1.0 during the next set of school holidays.

I also want to spend more time freshening up this site. I’ve got some ideas, and now I’ve got the time to work on them. Watch this space.

What I’m enjoying

I’m sad about the cancellation of Starfleet Academy. I liked it a lot, and I’m concerned that this whole new era of Star Trek might have come to an end (apart from the 26 episodes that haven’t been released yet). And, of course, there’s no proper news about Doctor Who either.

Heated Rivalry was great fun, and I’m reading one of the books it’s based on. (I love romance as a genre, as you already know if you’ve heard me talking about it on USTP.)

Not quite sure what I want to watch next. I have a big list of possibilities in Obsidian, so I guess I’ll work something out.