Interior Design

I rearranged the furniture in my living room over the weekend.  Exciting stuff right.  What does that really mean?  I swapped the positions of my sofa and loveseat so that the seat with the busted recliner function is on the end and the one I'm least likely to use - so it can stay unreclined.  Although the new seating arrangement will take a bit of getting used to, it works.  And, somehow, it has made my living room feel a bit more spacious.  Though that didn't stop me looking at new sofas online today...

Last One Laughing

I've been seeing lots of clips of Last One Laughing UK on YouTube, so when I found out the full episodes were on Amazon Prime then I decided to check it out.  And it's pretty good - enough for me to binge the first season this weekend, and I've just started on the second season.  More than pretty good, it's actually really enjoyable - frequently making me laugh out loud.  It's basically a competition where a bunch of comedians try to make each other laugh.  A simple premise, but the quality of comedians is what makes it work.  It's a murderer's row - all the usual suspects that you see on every popular game show and panel show.  But that is what makes me worry about the longevity of this show.  In the first season, there was only 1 of the 10 comedians who I didn't know.  In the second season, it was 2.  By that logic, I'm not sure I want to watch by the fifth season when half of the contestants will be unknown to me.      

Mousetraps?

I've currently got 4 mousetraps set up under my house.  I had baited them last weekend (my bait of choice - peanut butter) but no takers when I checked today.  Which I think is a good thing - it means there are probably no critters under my house right now.  But last weekend when I checked the traps for the first time in months, I achieved a 50% success rate.  But interestingly, I didn't actually capture a mouse with my mousetraps.  No, in fact it was a couple of moles.  Which shouldn't have surprised me given the amount of mole activity I've seen outside the house.  I've almost given up trying to fight the moles, it just seems to be an endless battle - so this was a rare win for me.

Jaws

I feel like I succumbed to a bit of peer pressure to obtain this new addition for display.

I probably overpaid for something that is a lot smaller than I thought it would be.  But at least that means it fits on my shelf quite nicely. 

Statistics

A well known quote on statistics goes: "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination".  A perfect recent example:

I suspect this "poll" consisted of interviewing 1 person who happened to be a Trump-supporting MAGA imbecile.

Doomscrolling

I was just watching a YouTube video of a very excitable Australian cleaning drains, and it dawned on me that perhaps I'm watching way too much inane online content.  I seriously need to cut back - and watch a film or read a book instead.  Sadly when it comes to self-improvement, this is just the tip of the iceberg. 

Sleep

I might as well write something else, just to make up for the one I missed yesterday.  But for the last few weeks I've been doing something I don't think I've ever done before.  I've been consistently sleeping through my alarm.  Which is weird.  I think this is partly due to the clocks going forward, but my sleep patterns have also slightly shifted so that I'm going to bed later and waking up later.  I thought that when you get older you're supposed to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier - so I have no idea why I'm doing the opposite.  But I don't like it.  I feel like it might be a reflection of my stressed out state of mind, or my very sedentary lifestyle.  I need to get into healthier habits - in particular exercising more regularly.  Maybe the lack of exercise is causing me to be less tired in the evening.  But even if I go to bed late, I think I'm still getting good quality sleep.  So it's not like I'm suffering from lack of sleep.  Weird.