The Year I Lost It All - Being 27 It's my birthday! I turned 28 today, and this has been a year of major changes. This year I realised that I am the mythical "future George" who has to get my life in order, so I did it. I have lost a lot (in a good way), so if you'll indulge me, please stick around for the next few paragraphs whilst I talk through it all. I lost over 28KG This is easily the…
Reason #50: Robb Photo from Robb's omg.lol profile I have often talked about how I have some truly amazing friends, and I think it's only fair I give you an example. Robb , also known in the omg.lol community as RKnight, is one of those people. Let's talk about why. probably.green A few years back, and with what was one of my very first interactions with Robb, I mentioned that I had bought the…
International Women's Day 2025 Women exist, and spend on average 2.8 hours more per week doing unpaid care and domestic work. 🚨HOT TAKE ALERT🚨 That is not okay. I am lucky to have a lot of inspirational women in my life, so let’s take a moment to celebrate some of my favourites! Eugenia Euge one of the most dedicated doggy mommies I’ve ever seen. I wish I had someone looking at me the way Sephy…
I'm Tired. Photo by Doğukan Şahin on Unsplash I have a few islands of thought that I can’t elegantly bridge right now, so I am offering them here in their raw form. I'm Tired. Tired of caring. I often think about how much easier it would be to be less moral person, that I'd easily be rich. Let's be honest, scam call centers clearly aren't struggling financially. Maybe I'd pump-and-dump a…
Who am I? Photo by Javi Hoffens on Unsplash It's a simple enough question, isn't it? The truth is: I don't know. It's more than that though, I don't think I have ever known. I am a second-generation immigrant in the United Kingdom, who doesn't feel quite British enough when here, but also doesn't feel quite Georgian enough when back there either. I've lived in four different countries, and visited…
Reason #49: New, shiny tech Photo by Edward Hands on WikiMedia Commons In what will be a surprise to literally no one who knows me: I have this tendency of accruing random tech. It is a mixture of actually useful stuff I no longer use, such as a Nintendo Switch OLED which has since been superseded by a Steam Deck OLED, and things that were impulse buys that I really shouldn't have kept gathering…
Reason #48: Strangers on a Train Photo by Chris Yang on Unsplash You've heard of Snakes on a Plane , so let me tell you about these strangers on a train. Before that, however, there is a little bit of necessary background info: it was my friend's birthday this week, so I went to visit them. She invited me a some of her other friends to drink a totally appropriate amount! That being said, it meant…
Reason #47: Chelsea 2 - 0 Tottenham Hotspur, 02/04/2024 Disclaimer: This post is about sports, and may contain some searing hot takes. Feel free to skip it. Let me start this by saying I like football. I enjoy watching it when it's on free-to-air TV (I refuse to pay the insane prices for Sky Sports, and you need about 6 streaming services to get all of the games), I enjoy having a kick-about with…
Reason #46: WeblogPoMo Fo Sho! Today is the first day of #WeblogPoMo2024 , so I thought "What better way to celebrate than to revive a series that only a few people read, and even fewer actually liked?" The fact I've been in a bit of a content drought recently isn't a secret, I could make a million reasons like getting a new job, or the long commutes meaning I'm up early and home late, or that I'm…
Do I Live Forever, Fade Away, or Go Out With a Bang? This is something I ask myself all of the time regarding my digital presence. How do I treat it long term? It's not an issue for the near future, it's a somewhat more existential one. One that implies that others would even care what happens in the first place. So why don't you indulge me for a bit whilst I run through all of the permutations…
Prami.Partners This week, I launched a new site! At midnight on Monday, Prami Partners came into the world. What is Prami Partners? Prami Partners is a community-run gift exchange, specifically for omg.lol users. Adam has done an incredible job of creating a community around the site, partially thanks to social.lol , along with the Discord server. I speak with lots of super interesting people…
What I Want Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash Inspired by a conversation I had with Adam . I really want better tech habits. I want to use a better email provider than Gmail, but I use the rest of GSuite and I then have to find an alternative way of using YouTube (and it becomes just another gmail account anyway). I want to have a super repairable and powerful laptop like the Framework but it…
Convert a Spotify Account From Facebook to Email Login This is a post ripped directly from Robb Knight's Blog with permission from Robb. This is because it was potentally maliciously reported as phishing. Fuck Facebook. This morning I tweeted that there's no way to convert a Spotify account from Facebook login to email and password login. I even spoke to Spotify support who said: "As your account…
New Year, New Tired Photo by Eyestetix Studio on Unsplash Last year, I made a post titled "New Year, Same Tired" . It was a post about how, even though we were going into a new year, I felt an amount of emotional tiredness, which has been lingering for the last few years. I talked about how everything felt exhausting and how I was going into 2023 with an amount of scepticism I don't normally hold.…
Reason #45: London Gatwick Airport I promised you an explanation in the last post, and here it is... I was supposed to spend the weekend in Cyprus. Flying out Friday afternoon, and then coming back Monday night. Unfortunately, it wasn't as easy as expected. Our flight was supposed to take off at 15:20, and at around 17:20, we were told that our flight had been cancelled. The good news is that…
Reason #44: 26 It was my 26th birthday over the weekend. Every year I joke about now I feel really old now, and don't get me wrong, I did that again, but this year was different. If you had asked me 7 months ago, I would have never expected to get to my birthday (see reason 41 ). Now that I'm here, it feels... weird. I've had a cold for the last few days, and I've been in Cyprus for a wedding so I…
Hi(atus) Full disclosure: I first came up with that insanely cringeworthy title, and am now writing this post. Also - this was supposed to be my first post back, but a Reason kinda happened. It has been a few days ? weeks ? months(!) since I last posted. In that time: I've pivoted jobs (and industries), moved twice (don't ask), and... bought even more domains ! It has been draining and has meant I…
Reason #43: The (lack of) Trains As I write this, I am 3 hours into what should be a 90-minute journey, with it looking likely to go on for a further 3 hours. The idea of inter-city public transport in England is great, you can usually get around the country quicker via rail than you could by car, and you can even drink a cheeky gin-and-tonic as you do it! Every now and again, though, things go…
Probably.Domains You know how if a company hires too many members of staff, they then have to hire more staff just to manage them all? That's what has happened with me and domains. Probably.Domains is a list of all of the weird and wacky things I have made! (Real post coming soon)
Reason #42: Fire Gun Here's something crazy that you may not know about me: I am NOT an aerodynamicist. Scandalous, I know. That did not stop 12-year-old George from wanting to design a "Formula 1 in Schools" car though, so he stayed behind after school to craft a car out of balsa wood. The car needed a cool name, and so with the black-and-red livery I called in "Fire Gun". In this post, over 13…
Reason #41: Honesty. IMPORTANT: This post contains multiple mentions and contains themes of adult topics such as suicidal ideation. It is not suitable for all audiences. My last reason made it seem like I specifically went home for a week or so to spend time with baby Raisin, that I had planned on doing so for ages and it was all part of a plan. The reality is, that was a lie. Sure, I had planned…
Reason #40: Raisin (a baby) Oh hey, it has been a whole month since I posted one of these! It's not that I haven't had reasons, it's that I have been too busy to write any of them. A couple of weeks ago, my cousin gave birth to a beautiful daughter called Anastasia. For those of you who don't know, I have very close connections to my extended family, and my cousin is like a sister to me, so I went…
Reason #39: Long Lost Podcasts Years ago I produced something called the "Snappy-Tech Podcast". It ran for 40 episodes and was mostly just an excuse for me to sit down with some friends and talk vaguely about the tech news. It was a lot of fun, but I had to stop in the end as there is a lot more production that goes on behind the scenes than you'd think! That being said: There was one episode that…
Reason #38: A Movie and Some Drinks I've been making a point of going out more with friends, watching a film and grabbing some drinks afterwards. After a low-key weekend where I watched the Formula 1 and did little else, I went to watch Evil Dead Rise with some friends. This isn't going to be a movie review blog, but I will say the film was absolutely hilarious. There were multiple points in this…
Reason #37: You. "The truth is my biggest problem's you; I want to please you But I want to stay true to myself I want to give you the night out that you deserve But I want to say what I think and not care what you think about it A part of me loves you, part of me hates you Part of me needs you; part of me fears you" - Bo Burnham (song link) Something about that really resonates with me, I think…