I used to work part-time which meant my weekends were much longer than most other people who get paid to work five days per week. I used to have a lot of time to think about things whilst sitting on the sofa, drinking coffee and watching daytime TV. The things I used to think about were really only of interest to me, probably, but I used to think about them anyway. Now I am retired, I can think about all this trivia full-time.
My football team, Leeds United, provides both joy and grief in equal measure. A few years ago, I noticed that it was hard to assess how well Leeds United was doing just by looking at the league table so I created a different way to look at league tables.
I have been a licenced radio amateaur since 1981. G6ETX, in case you were interested. Although I don't transmit much these days, I do like to listen in to things. Right now, I track aircraft that fly over my house using ADSB and feed this data to FlightRadar24. I also track weather ballons. I feed this information to Radio sonde info and Sondehub. If any land near me, I will try to find where they land and recover them. I detail my exploits in the radio sonde section of this website.
My final job before I retired was working for Sitemorse. Sitemorse tests the quality of websites over a number of categories. Many of the pages in the website test examples part of this site contain deliberate errors so they can be used to illustrate and test the features of Sitemorse. That is my excuse for this poor quality site, and I am sticking to it.
I also volunteer at Chawton House to welcome visitors to the House or do a tour. If you are ever in the village of Chawton visiting Jane Austen's House, then take a short walk to Chawton House and come to see the house her brother Edward owned.