Weekly Head Voices #248: Oh snap

Welcome back everyone to this completely normal and of course utterly on-time edition of the WHV which spans (checks notes…) the one (1) week from Monday October 31 to Sunday November 6, 2022.

Figure 1: Watsonia posing in front of mountain. Photo by partner.

Figure 1: Watsonia posing in front of mountain. Photo by partner.

(Yes, I am a little bit excited that for once this post is technically on time enough to cover only that one week. Of course what’s in the post does not necessarily have to do anything with the events that transpired in that week, but we won’t let that keep us from this little punctuality celebration.)

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Weekly Head Voices #243: Part-time role-model

Welcome back friends, welcome back me!

This WHV covers the multiple weeks from Monday May 23 to Sunday June 19, 2022.

It is this late, because it has been super busy at work (and at home), and by the time that I get any sort of opportunity to write, I am often too tired to focus.

I hope to say something about that a bit further down.

Whatever the case may be, I am happy to be here now, focusing on this post draft right here.

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Weekly Head Voices #241: Best intentions

Welcome back folks to the Weekly Head Voices!

Edition 241 (this one) covers the four weeks from Monday March 21 to Sunday April 17 of the year 2022.

This time, my excuse for being so late is our autumn vacation trip to Augrabies and the Kgalagagi Transfrontier park.

The Knersvlakte-Augrabies-Kgalagadi-Calvinia vacation trip

The super short summary is as follows:

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Weekly Head Voices #240: I am just a copy of a copy of a copy

Welcome back to another tri-weekly edition of the weekly head voices, looking back at the period of time from Monday February 28 to Sunday March 20.

I’ve been so busy at work that I was unable to create a sufficient amount of the right sort of headspace to sit down and write a WHV, hence the gap of three weeks instead of one.

I did spend a number of mental cycles (for the Nth time) thinking about alternative and more compact post formats that would in theory be more resilient to lack of time and headspace, but ironically there was not enough time and headspace to come to any sort of conclusion.

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