Situation normalish

Hello. So ... soon ended up being 3 months later, oops! Sorry about that.

Rach and I moved into Hastings at the end of July and have spent some time getting used to our new home and surrounding area. It's been really nice so far. There's certainly a lot more going on around here in comparison to Swindon. It think it helps that there are some other towns fairly nearby too, such as Rye and Battle.

I started work about 3 weeks ago and settling in nicely into that. I don't think I could ever take working for granted, all I can say is I'm glad and blessed to find one after what was only a short while of searching, but felt like a lot longer!

While settling back into a work routine I've looked at where I can get spare time here and there. Making music can take a while, but I found some android apps such as the 1 bit version of pixitracker, that encourage me to use small breaks (such as in my lunchtime) as a way of working on music without encroaching on the day to day stuff of life. Here's an example.

I will

Update this page properly soon! I've had a bit of a busy one, what with preparing a move back down to East Sussex. Most recently we secured a place to live in Hastings. I'm still looking for work down there, but there seems to be a LOT of opportunities to follow up, so... that's what I'm doing! In the downtime be sure to read more proliferate blog writers and perhaps read a cool webcomic that include bears that look like potatoes such as http://nedroid.com .

Speccy

Made this over the weekend. It's the first time I've used the old ZX Spectrum music engine for music, and it sure is quicker to make things in, forcibly so, as you have limited options to fiddle about with. Its fun in a nostalgic way to use this system as it was my first exposure to videogames. My brother and I used to play the spectrum decades ago, waiting sometimes for 20-30 minutes just for a game to load from the tape cassette, even turning it round to side B if it hadn't finished loading by then! Half the games we had weren't all that much good, but we forgot which ones were, so I remember trying out all of them one by one and occasionally stumbling upon a great game. Dave enjoyed a Brian Clough Football Manager game, I seem to remember being happy when he decided to put me in his custom team once, only to find out to my dismay that the first game of the season gave me a career ending injury!