In case anyone has ever doubted my credentials as a fan of Island Saver by Natwest

Posting this as a remainder that even as a balding man creeping further into his 30s I'm actually still cool as fuck because I have a small bit Incredible cassette collection

Currently moving house and almost immediately ran out of packing tape. Well, except one roll... Thank you to the marketing person on Moving Out 2 for this genius bit of merch I've had kicking around for two years

Attempt number two looks even better

Yesterday I felt so entirely crushed by despair that I made my first ever burnt Basque cheesecakes, using a recipe from a manga about a gay couple who make low calorie desserts

It tasted very good!

Look at this cute little guy flopping his legs over the edge of his seat! He looks all sleepy and silly 🥰🥰🥰

I contain multitudes

2024:

Got married. Went on my honeymoon. Did a bunch of work stuff. Pretty good.

It's time. Running a bit behind schedule but we should be all wrapped up by teatime.

If you want the full experience I'll be doing post-episode spoiler chat on my Instagram story throughout the day: www.instagram.com/riccowley/pr...

#EmilyInPaRic

The year is 2022. Another season of Emily in Paris is released. Oculus is rebranded as Meta.

On New Year's Eve, I sit down to watch the entirety of season 3 of Emily in Paris using my Meta Quest 2.

I succeed once more.

I did it. It wasn't pleasant, but I felt like I'd accomplished something.

Except then I realised a second season was on the way, and I decided I'd have to keep going.

This is me in 2021 watching season 2, which again, I watched in full in an Oculus Quest 2

In 2020 I decided to, for a lark, watch all of Emily in Paris in my Oculus Quest 2 (released just 11 days after the TV series) in one day - New Year's Eve

My goal was to do "the most millennial thing possible". It had been a tough year. Here's me during that marathon

Top 5:

Zenless - 112 hours, mostly cumulative daily logins
Fortnite - 53 hours, got SUPER into Rocket Racing before it died
Metaphor - 41 hours, would be much higher but hit pause on it
Parcel Corps - 27 hours, because I'm brand loyal (and it's a good game obvs)
RDR1 - 24 hours, had an urge

Rest of my top three is me revisiting New Vegas because I needed something mindless, and Pentiment because I finally sat down to play it

The gamerscore is a leftover of a misspent youth

Maybe I shouldn't have spent the start of the year playing Persona 3 Reload to completion three times back to back

I'm not surprised to see that my top artists and songs are mostly Canadian emo bands but being the top 0.001% listener of a song is... Quite something

Is... Is my local pancake place inviting me to have sex with some pancakes?

I'm making the leap motherfuckers. Here's a photo from my honeymoon in Japan, an absolute disasterpiece of a meal from Denny's featuring curry, hamburg steak, and cheese. Starting off strong