Philip Hazelden

Fell over last night while running home. I'm mostly okay, but for a couple of days I'll be choosing between my "wear trousers" ability and my "bend knee" ability.

Student loans company has lost over £1000 of repayments I made last year (everything from April in my old job). I called them up and now I need to send them a letter with copies of all my payslips. Grrah. ...suddenly hoping none of those payslips got lost anywhere.

Book of Mormon review: From memory, Team America was funny and it had decent music. But what made it so great was that at the same time as being a parody of action films, it was also just legitimately good as an action film. Book of Mormon was funny and it had decent music.

I have France and Croatia in the office sweepstakes. This puts me in an awkward position. I'm torn between my patriotic desire to see the football come home to England, and my personal desire to see the prize hamper come home with me. And by "torn" I mean "I want that hamper".

Tough mudder time: 2 hours 35 minutes. Number of swears: many, but almost all related to the ice bath.

Last night: oh, looks like there's lots of tickets available for Heathers. I'll get some in the morning. This morning: lolno

Some things are perfectly unremarkable, but there has to be a first time we do them. And there's enough of these things that sometimes the first time happens later than expected. I just had a pleasant conversation about football with the guy at the takeaway.

@Verglasz people were actually enthusiastic about the Belgium-England game happening at the same time.

@philh Context for a clueless continental?

Passing a loud pub: huh, people are surprisingly enthusiastic about Panama-Tunisia. Seeing people's shirts: oh, right.

I admit, I've enjoyed the world cup a lot more this year, due to being in a sweepstakes. Not enough to have watched any of it, but still.

@bencord0 oh, I meant both USB-C and headphone jacks. I don't know if USB-C headphone jacks are a thing.

Current mood: hoping that by the time I need a new phone or laptop, the industry will have sorted its collective shit out re headphone jacks and USB-C.

TV show about a father-son duo who share Prime Ministership of the UK by day, and fight crime by night.

Milestone: one month of lying to my exercise app almost every day.

Dance like no one is watching, because no one is left to watch. Dance like it's the last dance that will ever be danced. Dance like the final witness to a once-mighty civilization. Dance a dirge for the human race.

The Star Wars prequels are more interesting after reading these essays: prequelsredeemed.blogspot.com/p/prequels-tab… (Rough summary: the films are overtly about how the old republic got subverted into the evil empire, but subtextually about how the old republic was never good.)

The cookie law has been in place for nine years, and it continues to be a minor but noticeable blight on the internet.

Truman Show moment: journey home was delayed by traffic, roadworks, men with guns, barriers sending me round in a loop, and a truck reversing round a corner. What did the director not want me to see?

I don't know much about dog breeds, but I do have strong opinions about dog breed names. One strong opinion about dog breed names. Labradoodle is the best dog breed name. It's not even technically a dog breed and it still wins hands down.

A nice thing about the weather is it makes me feel like Batman, because I can't twist my neck while wearing a scarf.