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Now

Last updated on Thursday 4 December 2025.

Term IV ended yesterday, and now I don’t go back to school till late January. There will be time to relax, but there’s still a lot of schoolwork to do between now and then.

Life

The holidays will give me the chance to do more exercise, which will be nice, but I still need to lose more weight. My losses since May have reduced my blood pressure, but it’s still too high, and I need to keep going. I’m definitely more than halfway there, I think.

School

Term IV was brutal, and I’m glad its over. Fingers crossed for next year. I will start doing schoolwork on again on Monday, but from home, wearing shorts. Until then, I’ll be concentrating on my other, non-paying job.

Podcasting

We’ve finished recording a six-episode season of 500 Year Diary, called The Colour of Monsters, about Terrance Dicks, a Doctor Who of writer and script editor whose contribution to the show — and to juvenile literacy — was immense. The season was fun to record, and I think the two episodes we’ve released have been excellent. This Sunday’s episode will cover Horror of Fang Rock.

Untitled Star Trek Project continues unabated. Our next episode will cover a pivotal two-part story, The Best of Both Worlds, which is now 35 years old. It still works though.

Websites

And now I’ll have more time to work on Version 2.0 release of my Eleventy Podcaster plugin. I’ve got just one more feature to add, and I’ve already worked out how to implement it. After that, it’s time to complete the documentation and do the release. Still on track to finish it by the end of the year.

What I’m enjoying

I’ve really been too busy to watch anything I’m not podcasting about. So now I have a list of shows to watch, and some games to play, including Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, which I’ve only just started, and Subnautica, which was recommended to me by a student.

My reading of Moby-Dick stalled this term, but I think about it a lot, and I have gone back and re-read some individual chapters. I still don’t know how it ends, amazingly. Looking forward to getting back to it.