September 2025

It's a short one for September. It's also a day late and a dollar short, but today is one of the first days I've felt almost completely normal for a while.

• I bought an apartment this month. It's mine and my partner's first home!
• I fell brutally ill with an inner ear infection that nearly killed me.

Incredible stuff. My pet theory is the universe was like 'Buying a house before they're thirty? We gotta slow this idiot down'.

No but seriously, an ear infection?! C'mon dude. I went into hospital with a 40°C temperature that had started shutting down my internal organs, all of which was triggered by, essentially, tinnitus. I didn't know my right ear hated me so much.

I've been unable to walk properly until just recently — balance issues from the infection — and with a seized digestive system, eating hasn't been particularly fun either. I had nearly two weeks off work and didn't sleep much for that entire period with a perpetual migraine that nothing could shift for six days, day and night, and I kept fainting and having horrible hallucinogenic fever dreams that either stopped me from sleeping or made it feel like I hadn't.

It's all right though, because I didn't have any really important mortgage paperwork or solicitor's questions to answer or other complex house-buying related things to do. Seriously, I had my 'finalising everything and doing all the verification stuff' mortgage meeting the morning after I was discharged from hospital and I think that was actually the closest to dying I've ever been. I certainly wanted to.

Anyway, I'm very excited about my new apartment (it's gonna be so expensive) and my partner is too. We should be moving in early November, which is awesome and exclusively a product of it being in Scotland. Scotland is much better at doing housing than England. In England my move-in date would probably be, like, March 2026.

I couldn't read or write (or really do much of anything) for most of the month because my brain was all broken and feverish or filled with migraine, so the changelog and links are all super sparse and boring. I was planning on building out some programming pages and publishing another whole new section and it did not work out.

Changes to the site in September —

• Added Programming
• Added Sous Chef Documentation

And a single link —

• You don't need JS