🧠 My Apple Watch is telling me I got 4.5hrs of sleep last night.
I’m therefore lying down in the sun on my balcony and not planning on moving any time soon.
Moar sleeeeep pleaze…
🧠 My Apple Watch is telling me I got 4.5hrs of sleep last night.
I’m therefore lying down in the sun on my balcony and not planning on moving any time soon.
Moar sleeeeep pleaze…
📸 The whole of Canary Wharf was enveloped in thick fog this morning
📸 Made it out for a quick 5km round the neighbourhood.
📸Any excuse to get my trotters out in the sun 🤣
📸 This beast just sailed past my apartment building
📸 We may have had a couple of beers in the sunshine before the Eurovision semi-final…
📸 Snapped while in Vienna - an important message in the toilets of a bar we visited.
📸 Snapped while in Vienna last weekend.
I’m not a car person (I don’t even drive) but this is a thing of beauty.
🍏 Reflecting on working with my iPad Pro:
So can you do work on the iPad Pro? Of course, and I’m living proof. Can you do every kind of work – well, I certainly can’t, not without making a lot of sacrifices or incurring a lot of hassle I just don’t need when I’m at work.
📺 Prepping dinner in advance of this evening’s Eurovision Song Content semi-final.
Can’t wait to see the stage, watch the acts, and see if Ireland makes it into the final! Really want to see the staging for Bambi Thug’s act.
I’m left pretty underwhelmed by that Apple announcement. Nothing I need / want right now. I’m just excited for the potentially huge updates to iOS and PadOS to be announced at WWDC next month.
📸 I have the gym all to myself this afternoon!
🍏 Where’s my iPad excitement?
📸 Good morning from Canary Wharf…
📸 I absolutely adored Vienna’s many parks
✈️ A Viennese whirl - adventure’s in Austria’s beautiful capital
Waiting on our flight back to London and enjoying the blue skies over Vienna.
It’s been a fantastic weekend and I’ve nearly walked off my little legs! I’ll definitely be back, if only to go inside of all the beautiful museums I walked past this time. Couldn’t bear being indoors while the weather was so nice.
But for now, the fun is over and it’s time to head home.
Right now, I’m all about the airline lounge here at Vienna Airport. Spacious, peaceful and some deliciousious mint-infused water on tap.
A pleasant change from all the fried schnitzel and Austrian beer!
I’d like to say the worst bit of yesterday’s MRI was the noisy machine.
I’d like to say it was the scratching and uncomfortable line inserted awkwardly into a vein in my left arm.
Indeed, it would be nice to tell people that the worst part of the experience was the half-litre of gloop they made me drink before the scan. Or maybe having to hold my breath while my digestive system was scanned.
No.
The worst part was halfway through, when I was injected with yet another chemical and trundled back into the MRI coffin. Within moments bile rose in the back of my throat, my face flushed and I felt I was going to vomit.
In a metal coffin.
With the surface mere centimetres from my nose. I have to say I panicked slightly as I could easily visualise the vomit coming out of my mouth and nose as I tried to hold it back, dripping into my eyes, choking me in my nasty, metal sarcophagus.
Yes. I panicked.
And so I pushed the aptly-named panic button and the radiology team had me out of the metal Death trap in moments. They were so understanding and talked me down from my heightened arousal (wide-eyed panic), explained what was happening, and let me take my time before lying back down and returning to the magnetic noise pit.
It was pretty awful. And I say this as a man who had a combined colonoscopy / endoscopy session just a couple of months back. At least that time, I was pumped with a nice, relaxing dose of fentanyl to take the edge off. I even exchanged jokes about winning “cleanest colon in London” as the gastro consultant did his thing.
He didn’t laugh, now that I think about it.
Yesterday was the closest thing to torture I’ve ever experienced, and I won’t be rushing back. And here’s hoping it’s the last MRI I need for a very, very long time.
📸 11,000 steps across Vienna later, it’s time for some refreshment! Stopping for some lunch in the famous Cafe Savoy.
📸 Vienna: the view from here. Looking forward to a day of exploring, of coffee and of course, cake!
Christ on a bike this stuff is vile!!!
But apparently necessary, pre-MRI. Currently fantasising about my dream lunch (I’ve been fasting) and I’m pretty sure it involves a Five Guys burger 🍔
🗳️ These local election and by-election results are giving me life this morning.
Schadenfreude? Absolutely. I’m hoping the assorted thugs, bigots and idiots in Downing Street had a very, very sleepless night.
Next up: Sunak calls a general election and we wipe the Tories off the map.
Another day of two halves…
I’m off to Vienna this evening, to (hopefully) enjoy a Bank Holiday weekend in the sun. But first, I have to go back to hospital, for yet another test.
Thankfully, it’s just an MRI, so all I have to cope with is boredom. Hopefully.
📸 Work podcasting face
Recorded another podcast episode today, edited a difference episode, and created two new videos. It’s been a day and half. And now time to prep some slides for a psychology conference I’m presenting at in a couple of weeks.
🍛 Making a Japanese curry for dinner