website alive again

i feel something about shipping has become really tedious. or should i say shipping services. u go online and buy something. then it starts, the inbox flood;

we are expecting your parcel from (seller)

we have your parcel

your parcel is on its way to you

your parcel is being delivered today

your parcel delivery time has changed 

your parcel has been delivered

how was your delivery? 

how was your delivery? 

how was your delivery? 

how was your delivery?!  

 

i mean halfway through im already done. i understand people want visibility on their deliveries but its gotten a bit extreme. and the desperate pleads for feedback that every single service does now - its too much. 

me and doctor finally got around to going to Highgate Cemetery, where Karl Marx, Douglas Adams and Michael Faraday were put to rest. it was his birthday so i got us a tour too and it was well worth it, learned a lot about the history of the cemetery, graves - saw the catacombs - etc. i was surprised about the unmarked graves of which many were for the so-called “fallen women”, girls as young as 14 pushed into prostitution and dying from the poverty and diseases. 

as a part of his birthday, i designed a shirt with AI for him and had it printed. gemini made the title and most of the design too, but gemini (based on this and other experiences) seems incapable of fixing mistakes even when asked. it had written controlled with one L and i could not make it add the other L no matter what. i then gave the design to chatGPT and as usual, it fixed the issues and made the changes i needed. doesnt matter, in the end i got what i wanted.   

 

 

 

i got a couple new puzzles as i realised im running out. i just started a cityscape one (night time Hong Kong or something). 

my ancient suzi9mm.com website had finally deteriorated and the URL was just showing code...i noticed this about a month ago. i finally got around to just setting up a new site, a project i started a few years ago because i was expecting this eventually. i then moved over the domain and now at least i have something live, if not very polished. also missing a few pics i think. but im happy i got it back up. i want my photos to exist out there and be accessible still, even if it is a stale ghost gallery thats just a part of history. 

 

 

ive been listening to Sophie Gilbert's Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves. theres a lot i recognise and can relate to, some familiar thoughts and challenges. the book is a wider perspective than the title suggests and maybe sometimes gets lost in detail, but overall i find it pretty solid. i havent finished it and so i hope the book is going "somewhere", and hopefully somewhere with broader analysis and suggestions of changes. now it's been busy laying out pieces of evidence of which most if very observational.