content warning: wild animal injury
1. been watching the Fast & Furious films with friends
- once a week, on a sunday afternoon
- we sync up the films, hit play, and pretend we're mst3k via Slack
- they're actually pretty good, even the bad ones
- also i'm spotting how much of an influence they had on the Need For Speed franchise in the early 00s
- speaking of which:
2. i've been playing a lot of Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
Hi, I'm Josie Maran, and I play Mia in Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Make sure you do all your racing in the game. On the streets, drive safely and responsibly. And wear your seatbelt 😉
- that unskippable opening video is burned into my brain
- last time i played this game i didn't let myself like pink, and cute things, for some reason. so this time i'm making my cars look as cute as possible
3. i've also been playing a lot of Minecraft again
- we (me and Rowan and Luke and Chris) did a multiplayer "speed"run on the latest snapshot version with the new cave generation datapack
- turns out snapshot versions are not at all optimised and it was extremely laggy
- to spice things up a bit we had secondary goals we could pick up, silly stuff like "place a live fish in the End"
- i was racing ahead to get to the end first and do as many goals as i could while the others were doing pointless things like preparing for the dragon fight
- but when i went through the portal the lag hit hard and i fell into the void and lost all my stuff
- including my fish in a bucket i was going to free into the End. can i get an F in chat
4. i went to a technical leadership workshop
- it was okay. it was exhausting.
- a lot of it was things like:
- "if i wanted to be a good tech lead and still wanted to code, i would simply no longer want to code"
- "here is how to lead an engineering team well: *list of engineering practices the Financial Times does anyway all the time*"
- one hour of Business Horoscopes ("StrengthFinder 2.0")
- i'm glad i didn't pay for it myself
5. Kettricken (my cat) caught a bird
- she's never done that before
- it was terrifying
- i was getting dressed, i couldn't do much about it
- i could hear this awful screaming, getting louder
- she walks in, i assume she's injured or something, i look down and there's this mess of feathers in her mouth. still screeching
- she runs away from me into the living room and drops the bird. it's a female blackbird
- it plays dead but it's still breathing, heavily
- Sophie locks the cat in the bathroom
- the internet says to take it to the vet so it can be put down humanely. there's another option. it probably won't survive itself.
- it suddenly leaps up and scurries into the corner.
- we can't bring ourselves to do anything about it.
- we let it go.
- i'm not sure we did the right thing.
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