Last gig of the year attended (Sleep Token on Saturday night), and sure, I do already have some in my diary for 2024 but it’s that point in the year where the calendar is looking too empty for my taste

I mean, without the aid of satellite navigation, how else would you do it when driving alone?*

These thoughts also brought by the memory of my Dad consulting the road atlas before long journeys.

* We shall ignore that time the other week where the road was closed on the way TO work and I just sat in the traffic for a minute before picking a new direction and driving on vibes (I was only half an hour late in the end which was nice esp since it’d have taken longer to go home).

So the road on a big chunk of my journey home was closed and, since I don’t have a smart phone, I slapped my journey into some online route planner before I left work and just like… memorised the journey but now I’m once again thinking about how I know a lot of my colleagues don’t get how I can just remember??? the map??

I suppose I could have printed it out but I feel like there’s no point since I go home in the dark and how am I meant to consult a map while driving?

Once again my calendar telling me it’s someone’s birthday but can I find the contact in my MSN/Skype/Hotmail merged address book with this birthday? No.

And like, the wild thing is that I DO know a Daniel whose birthday is tomorrow but I was at primary school with him, so the birth year the recurring calendar entry isn’t the right one for him.

It’s one of those days where I am searching my council’s website to figure out which bin goes out