Daughter is away at school camp for the first time. Hope she’s having fun!
Nick Broughall.
Writing again.
Tech journalist with 20+ years behind me. Running BTTR.reviews. Writing here about everything else — music, family, food, the odd rant, and the weird stuff in between.
I’ve spent 10 minutes trying to sign into Boost mobile. I tried the app and the website. I’ve reset passwords. I still can’t get in.
How can a communications company have such a broken accounts system?
Worst day of my life, right here
So I have to pay $10 for an Uber driver’s time despite waiting 15 minutes for him to go to the wrong pickup location twice. Surely Uber should be compensating me for wasting my time?
Up at 4am to fly to Melbourne for the day job’s Christmas party. If I’m still awake by the time it starts, of course.
I have so much work to do, but feel completely shattered today. Productivity is a struggle.
Well, I rejoined Facebook again so I could try to support BTTR. But I can’t bring myself to send friend requests. It’s just not a platform I want to invest personal time or effort in.
So, it turns out I was spamming the micro.blog feed with BTTR’s Black Friday deal links. Apologies! I was playing around with automation and it wasn’t quite working the way I wanted it to.
Our quick long weekend
We took a long weekend last weekend to Turon Gates, and it was spectacular. We stayed in a nice little cabin by there Turon river, watched the kangaroos, …
Continue reading →Words cannot express my disdain for Facebook.
I deleted my Facebook account back in 2019 or so, and have not regretted the decision at all. The feed was always full of crap I didn’t care about, I …
Continue reading →This looks incredible. Have thrown my pledge in for the deluxe edition: The Witcher: Path of Destiny
It’s so sad that this country is hobbled by its racism and inability to proactively build an inclusive space for our First Nations countrymen and women. It was an easy choice, and the country chose wrong.
Had to get a deep clean at the dentist this morning, including local anaesthetic and everything.
It was fine, but I’m really feeling out of it now. Can’t concentrate to write, yet can’t bring myself to log off.
Went to set up a bunch of home security cameras for review and one of them requires professional installation. Not sure I’ll be getting that one done any time soon, unfortunately.
Hogwarts Battle tonight with box 3 from the Monster Box of Monsters expansion
Started off strong. Thought we had it all under control, and then the last encounter appeared. We needed to play 6 spells to be able to remove it. But that was …
Continue reading →I absolutely loved the first season of Ahsoka. I thought the casting was perfect across the board, and the story had me gripped from the beginning (though mostly because it was just Rebels continued).
I really need confirmation of Season 2 though. Come on Disney, stop making me wait.
This CMS is potentially the most frustrating piece of crap I have ever worked with. It was clearly designed with absolutely zero input from anyone who would have to use it.
I am literally wasting hours to do what should be the most basic of tasks.
Familiar Tales
Spent the past couple of days playing Familiar Tales, which my daughter got for her last birthday. It’s a pretty epic campaign based game. We only finished the …
Continue reading →Birds of Tokyo with the SSO
Home after seeing Birds of Tokyo play at the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It was phenomenal. The band were having lots of fun (for most of …
Continue reading →Yesterday I was reviewing the espresso monitor for BTTR and drew a picture.
My daughter was at Nanna’s, so I thought I’d send it to her. She loves that kind of thing.
I searched for her in messages on the computer, pasted it in, wrote a quick message:
“Hey beautiful, I drew you a picture”
And hit send.
Then I realised I had sent it to the cleaning company we use.
I tried to delete it, and thought I had succeeded. Until I got a message today.
“That’s lovely Nick but not sure if it was meant for Licence to Clean”.
I am officially dead.
This morning our lovely neighbours came over and invited us all to the Botanic Gardens for lunch. The kids and I rode our bikes in with them, and we enjoyed an afternoon of good food and great company.
It was just really nice to stop for a bit.
I’ve been on quite the SEO roller coaster the past month. August core update saw me reach record heights on BTTR, new Helpful Content update seems to have dropped it back down to previous levels.
I’ll just keep plugging away making the site as good as I can. But Google, you’re making things harder than they need to be (for me, anyway).
Last night we went out to dinner to celebrate the boy’s birthday. We ate a lot of meat. It was incredible.
The last two episodes of Ahsoka have been, for me at least, probably the best Star Wars I’ve seen. Absolutely phenomenal.
Daughter had her piano performance today and she smashed it. So very proud of her. And not just because she’s looking over my shoulder as I write this. 🤣🤣