At the beginning of the year I wrote ideas for 2026 and updated with progress on 2026 in March. Then again halfway through the year. The beginning of September does not seem like the obvious next check-in. But I slow down dramatically in the autumn and winter. Also, it's my birthday so that feels like a natural time. This updates what I've got done over the past two months and what I still need to get done in the next four. It's clear that over the summer I do a lot more outdoors stuff and less 'on the computer' stuff. Which is really nice. As it should be. Here on the site: I've written more book posts, so I'm feeling pretty good about that one thing I've not done yet is write up some personal canon type things. That should be a nice autumnal project also I did Blaugust Personal, home, family stuff: went to monster trucks and it was wild went canoeing progress on digging in the garden slowed what with the risk of instant incineration on stepping outside. Autumn will see more progress not yet successfully renewed my passport not taken portraits of the niblings. Maybe I will just take my camera to the next party we've not yet done anything sporty, in part because my wife started kickboxing instead Learning, reading, projects stuff: read Middlemarch, will crack on with The Iliad I can identify some clouds, some times cyanotypes, check. I really like them! Will continue to try stuff out with them but also look at the next photography project still done nothing about learning basic electronics and have if anything got even worse at French! Big whoops! did a couple of literature courses, should write about them probably I... haven't done any more on my Recollections project Games: we haven't been back to the boardgame cafe over the summer. That definitely seems like a dark evenings thing still yet to properly DM another game that isn't D&D Creativity: I've been having loads of fun with short stories and a big new story the caution is less optimistic and more optimistically optimistic that I will still get the last two chapters of my fic done. I'm going to seriously crack on as of this month still no game jam or graphic design. Maybe this is also an autumnal or wintery thing