We got cancelled & thrown off the train; I waited 15 min as they said the 0839 would run, then the 0739 was somehow uncancelled and I'm nearly at Bath. It's utter carnage, even the staff have no clue what's running where - I was literally talking to the driver and crew when they got uncancelled.

It's now been cancelled after I sat on it for 15 minutes. They could have said that 15 minutes ago...

Somehow my train (the 0739) is essentially the only thing running out of Didcot this morning (I think there's a gas leak somewhere just slightly downstream in the London direction). Hopefully it'll be fixed in time for me to go home tonight...

I knew my email volume had got worse over the last few years, but I've now made the error of crunching the numbers. This year I have received ~1000 emails/month (and sending ~600) or, as an alternative way of thinking about it, involved in a rolling total ~700 email threads/month. Ugh.

I'm at a restaurant in Wroclaw and every time the waiter gives me something he just says "you're welcome". It's clearly a badly-matched translation of a Polish expression and he's just being polite, but it sounds just beautifully passive-aggresive in English.