2025

Monday. June 2nd 2025
Been converting my Spotify playlists into MP3s so that I can listen to shit offline. You'd think this task would be particularly arduous, but it's been weirdly entertaining.

Saturday. May 17th 2025
A random lady passed me on the street and said 'you look lovely'. It's been hours and I'm still riding that high.

Wednesday. May 14th 2025
I finally got my hands on a copy of Donna Tart's The Secret History; I've been wanting to read it for actual years so this was a fun suprise. It's in pretty much perfect condition, and I got it second-hand for £1.50.

Tuesday. May 13th 2025
I really want to get a flip phone. Like, not one of the newer ones that have Android installed into them. No, I want an older one with the tactile, clicky keyboards and stuff.

Sunday. May 11th 2025
A bird flew into the kitchen through the open door earlier; managed to get him out, and he chilled nearby for about an hour before flying off; I guess randomly flying into someone's kitchen is a harrowing experience for a bird. I'm actually quite glad the door was left open otherwise the poor guy would've smacked right into it.

Saturday. May 3rd 2025
Someone had a bunch of stuff in their front yard that you could take for free; one of those things was either an electirc guitar or bass. I really want to learn the bass...
I didn't have enough time to have a good look, and if I didn't have somewhere else to be I would've taken it. Bit of a bummer that. Was given some leftover salted-caramel cake though!

Thursday. May 1st 2025

The foundational core of this site's fourth version is now live! Obviously the site isn't finished yet, but there's still a multitude of places to explore!
This has been my most ambitious and creative version thus far. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think this place has so much more personality than it had before!
It's taken me maybe a week(?) to get the index, home, about me, blog, and sitemap pages done but that time truly flew. The process was incredibly engaging and entertaining; it's a bit like making a collage!

I'm not sure when everything else will go live, but it'll hopefully be in the next week or two, so stay on the lookout.

Tuesday. April 22nd 2025

So I had one of the worst nights of sleep ever, which was a particular bitch since I was hanging out with my mates today. I got maybe 3 or 4 cumulative hours of actual sleep and the rest of it was me spinning round and round; t'was a genuine horror.
I reckon the reason why I got such a shit amount of sleep is because I'm sick. For some reason, I can't sleep well when I'm ill, especially if it's a sore throat (my current plight). You might say 'Echo, just have a lemsip' to which I would tell you that I've been drinking at least one a day and it's been doing absolutely fuck all.

Despite that I had an absolute belter of a time hanging out with my friends! I hadn't seen one of them since September, which is a frankly ridiculous amound of time to wait.
We ordered lunch from Dominoes (pizza for my friends; chips and chicken strip things for me), and while we were eating had a very engaging and entertaining catch up. After an hour, we decided to make a cake; we settled on making a victoria sponge! I haven't baked in at least a year, so this was a wonderful change of pace.
When there's baking there's a mountain of washing up to do. Out of the three of us I'm apparently the only one who enjoys doing that sort of thing, so it was my solo job. I took it very seriously, like I was in the zone. It also allowed us more time to just chitter away about everything and nothing.
While the cakes was in the oven, we decided to play Scrabble. Despite doing fairly well in A-Level English I am so so bad at this game. Words? What are those? If you needed proof that I was in dire straits, one time I put down RAT of all things...
We also chose to make cakepops from the leftovers (when we took the cakes out the pans they sort of fell apart). We managed to burn the chocolate not once but twice(!), with the second batch being salvagable, although I couldn't tell you if that was due to the fact the chocolate was white rather than milk.
I had to go home before the cakepops were ready so I couldn't tell you how good they ended up being, but the actual cake turned out fucking fantastic! I took home two slices and absolutely scarfed them once I'd had my dinner.

Here's the cake by the way!

Monday. January 20th 2025
I've been using Firefox as my main browser on my laptop for a while now, and the other day I finally got around to installing uBlock Origin! The best part so far is that it's offered me an ad-free listening experience on Spotify (since I use Spotify on my browser).
Do I feel in any way bad about getting an experience that's akin to premium without having to pay for it? Absolutely not, and Spotify can suck my dick. They have some abysmal business practices, but I haven't found a single other alternative that I actually like.
I might have a look for something new, but for the time being I'm going to continue with this setup.