real talk nico @boyce@friends.nico

oh don't feel you have to follow this account back by the way, if you're after jokes they won't be here, just misery mainly, hah

Oh hey i should totally do an #introduction

so i'm Nico and a dad and a husband and thirty

I like socialism and linux and the countryside and homemade

I hate mass produced and expectations and stereotypes and assumptions and waste

I make beer and write recipes and volunteer and repair

ooh and I just got another email

I interviewed for a job a few weeks ago and then turned it down even though it was an interesting job because the pay turned out not to be great but now they've emailed me a better offer and it's a seriously decent offer

Emailed a magazine that I read with some suggestions and now I'm writing a feature for their winter issue!

My last remaining friend and I have drifted apart the last few months and I don't know why and nothing I do seems to help

Applied for a job the other day and sailed through the interview and now they want me to do a trial

I'm probably even more respected in the trade locally than they are, I don't work for free

Little cowboy dude

Half-written a blog post comparing Elo ratings to bookies odds by way of monte carlo simulations of the world cup which I should publish tomorrow and I'm tooting this to feel bad when I don't

gahhh im not doing well at this several-accounts-thing

there are two types of people in southampton, people planning where they're moving next and people who have given up hope

we did a print edition once when i was running a student mag and it was bloody brilliant to hand out paper copies of stuff we'd made (even though most people were not interested, fuck em)

any other ex drinkers on here?

anyone know when the sleep comes back?

I really want zines to make a comeback

The internet is no place for original thought

oh wow it's just hit me what i can do to relax this afternoon and it's one of my favourite things but i haven't been able to for a decade now due to addictions etc

go for a drive in the country

so now I'm slightly less annoyed about the stupid massive loud thing and more thinking "I hope that dude is ok" so that's something

I was wondering the other day about the new Maserati parked outside our building (i.e. who has a car that costs over a decade of your rent?) and the answer has just hit me: someone who's getting divorced and has moved here temporarily

also that's a custom emoji here

oh here on friends.nico (which i think is like the japanese yahoo or something) the favourite button is a little smiley face which clearly makes it the superior instance

if anything i'm being radicalised here

I needed to call the tax office today so I did that at 8 but they said their computer systems aren't up yet and to call back after ten

now i've been on hold for half an hour while a recorded message loops saying I might like to call back at 8am when they're less busy