Rev. Andy 🐺 @andy@mentalhealth.social

My #introduction toot!

I'm Andy and I'm the admin of mentalhealth.social.

My interests are covered in my profile. On #mentalhealth I've briefly known the Black Dog in the past and work hard to keep him on a leash. My wife lives with #BPD bundled with #anxiety and #depression (though has a grip on all of them) and her illnesses are one of the things that drive me to be so passionate about #MH support and care. Which is why I set up this Masto instance; a safe place to socialise and chat. 👍

Hm, the diagram in my ukulele book for Em contradicts online examples, as it has the 4th finger on the 4th string and fret as well. I don't know enough theory to know if this is correct.

4432 vs. 0432

Hmm. I'm too tired for such complicated problems.

16kg of flour delivered (and a nice gift from the supplier of a couple of bags of gluten free flour). I'd like to point out I ordered this before Lockdown 3.0 was announced. Now...to elevate my bread making skills to the next level. 😎

Think I'll buy a bread cloche or possibly a new dutch oven to replace the battered old Le Creuset I'm currently using.

Skyr + seeds + dried berries for breakfast, with a glass of AF fizz and fresh orange.

I'd like to say this is a NY resolution or some such bollocks, but it's just a lazy breakfast and I fully intend to make a disgustingly tasty bacon butty once I've woken up properly.

So it turns out you can play a bazillion songs once you've learnt C, G, F and Am on the ukelele. Hardest part is getting used to finger strumming and holding it in position, though my other skills from playing guitar seem to transfer pretty easily.

Got a gorgeous electro-acoustic ukelele for my birthday. Eddie Vedder and Jason Mraz, watch your backs, I'm comin' for ya!

Kids are still in bed and @Jo is at work. Quietest Xmas morning ever.

Good day. Woke and made sausage rolls for breakfast, made two loaves, finished clearing out 15 years of crap from the bedroom, filled the rest of the skip with crap from the garage, played some CP, wrapped all the prezzies, ate burgers. That's a wrap (arf).

It's really faithful to the original games, even down to Rogue's appearance and haircut. I took off Thursday and Friday last week to play...I've...played a lot, this weekend. 😊

Can't wait to get some in-game screenshots for the Cyberpunk RED campaign I'm planning for my game group.

And my marathon CP2077 session comes to an end. I've put in maybe 40-50 hours since Thursday evening, performance issues and all (Xbox One S, though the kids are playing on PC and it looks gorgeous).

I have over three decades of the 'punk universe in my blood, most from running the TTRPG. Night City and its stories have been a part of my life and gaming friendships since I was a teenager in the '80s, and I've fallen in love with the game and many of its characters, bugs, warts and all.

Today's sourdough! 800g organic flour (10% rye), 10g salt, 500g water, 300g levain.

Started yesterday with a 1 hour autolyse, added the levain and kneaded in. Four folds, 30 minutes apart. Shape and ferment for another 3 hours, shape again and 14 hours overnight in the fridge in bannetons. Dutch oven and ice cubes at 450F for 30 minutes, then 30 minutes with the lid off.

Pretty chuffed at the results. #baking #sourdough

Last night consisted of Maltesers and re-watching Strange Days, which I've not watched for well over a decade. Kathryn Bigelow is an outstanding directory and both Angela Bassett and Ralph Fiennes make that movie. It's a cyberpunk classic and still stands out today. And the story is pretty fucking relevant right now.

Awesome soundtrack too.

My bread-fu is improving. Since lockdown v1 I've been dabbling with baking bread, including growing a sourdough starter ("Doughbi-wan"). Applying more of my undergraduate microbiology skills than anything else.

This is the result of an improvised recipe using starter discard after I fed him last night + overnight proofing that didn't seem to do much. Looks good.

Breadmaking is also my go-to when my mental health is poor or my vulnerabilities are high. I recommend it.

#Bread #MentalHealth

Toblerone and mince pies for breakfast is fine right, as we put the tree up yesterday?

It's November and we put the tree and lights up whilst @Jo shopped for nice food and extra decorations. Normally, I'm a bah humbug kind of guy but fuck it, it's been a toss year and every single one of us deserves a bit of fun. It was also really enjoyable spending the afternoon doing decorative house stuff with both the boys.

Reading Cyberpunk RED with Split Second (1992) playing in the background. I'm that cool and edgy.

We're looking for a mid-level dev!

Location: Manchester, UK (office + some home working)

Req: C#, .NET Framework/Core, ASP.NET, EF, one/both VueJS/Angular, SQL + RDBMS principles, VCS (Subversion and/or Git), primarily working under Windows.

Comfortable testing own code, PRing others, communicating openly and clearly, following established procedures (we're ISO27K1/9001 certified), full SDLC (req. gathering to post-rollout) and working to deadlines.

DM for info. 👍