No Bank Holidays for Old Men

A combination of having to get up early for work and the Easter four-day bank holiday weekend mean that it’s been a busy and tiring week so far for me.

I’ve been trying and failing to stop myself from passing out as soon as I get back home each day, but I’ve still managed to watch a fair bit of the Artemis II mission. I was glad to see that they’ve now achieved their main mission objective of going around the far side of the moon.

Turns out they didn’t need to use their Speedmasters after all.

art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. Image Credit: NASA

I also found time to make a few small tweaks to the blog, including adding a ‘Music Playlist’ in the sidebar at the suggestion of Claude – an allegedly conscious AI chatbot that’s helped me fix a few things using it’s programming abilities. All-in-all, I’m pretty happy with the way things look here at the moment.

As I usually say whenever I start a *new* blog though – things here may still change or move around at short notice, so don’t panic if things here look broken or slightly different from the last time you visited.

I’m on a training course tomorrow so I get to have a small lie-in in the morning, then just one more early shift to go before I finally get my four-day weekend off.