Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-5-2026 — Football Crazy

25th May, 2026: Football Crazy.

Hmmm … 

Yesterday was Sunday, 24th May, 20026.

You knew that: you can check a calendar as easily as I can.

It turns out that — going by the relevant BBC News page — it was the hottest day in May for some years: some seventy-nine of them.

It hit 32·3℃ in parts of the UK.

And is expected to get hotter, today.

It’s on days like this, I think a few things.

One?

Closing the curtains could help keep my flat cool: especially in the front room.

Two?

Opening the windows could help!

I think I’m going to need the draft … !

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24th May 2026.

24th May, 2026.

Have you ever heard of a TV series called The Blacklist?

YouTube’s been throwing clips of the James Spader vehicle at me for the past few weeks.

So, late last night, I was clicking around on the Apple TV, floated over to the Channel 4 catch-up app … and noticed they had it available.

So I watched the first episode.

It’s a great deal of fun.

Granted, this opening episode seems similar to The Silence of the Lambs.

But Spader’s charismatic in the central role, Megan Boone* as Elizabeth Keen comes over as intelligent, and the episode jogs along at a good pace.

And one character seems to be named after Robert Ressler.

This could be worth watching … 

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 23rd May 2026.

23rd May, 2026.

It’s officially official: I can jump around the room, after I had a password adventure!

I went shopping, yesterday: as it was payday.

And picked up an Apple Gift card, to help play my cloud storage bills.

I got home, had lunch, recorded and uploaded a video … 

And, when the video had finished uploading … ?

Tried feeding the code on the card into my Apple Account … 

Which got refused … repeatedly … 

And reset … repeatedly … 

It was only after re-starting, siding in and out of Music.app, restarting again, signing in and out of Music.app, then re-starting, again, THEN signing in and out of Music.app and TV.app … 

All of this with my left foot in a bucket of cold porridge.

It was only after all that, that the new password stuck.

‘Password adventure’ … is possibly putting it mildly … 

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Good Omens — Series 3 Episode 1 — “The Finale” — A Review

20th May, 2026: The Introduction.

It’s officially the case: that I’m starting to catch up with myself.

Or, at least, that I’ve got dinner on the go, caught up with the Teasers and released a video: about copying blu-rays discs.

Frankly?

I’m glad I found the ‘drop shadow’ feature in Final Cut Pro.

I don’t know if it does much for the opening titles … but at least the shadowing helps, I think.

At any rate … ?   And with that out of the way?

I can move on.

And catch up with a few things.

One thing I meant to catch up with?

Is a few TV shows.

So, tonight?

I’m going to eat dinner, wash up, boil the kettle … 

And watch the last ever episode of Good Omens.

Given this review will take a while … ?

I expect to have this written review done by Friday, 22d May, and expect to have the video done the same day.

I hope you’ll be sticking around for … “The Finale” … 

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 22nd May 2026.

22nd May, 2026.

Right, then: it’s Friday!

And … ?

It’s officially shopping day: and bill paying day.

Which is going to be fun.

It looks like it’s going to be one of the hottest days of the year to date.

Hydration will be key.

And, for those of us marking World Goth Day?

It might be a sensible idea to not wear black.

It’s not going to be the weather for it … 

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Oh … shopping!

I bought a new games controller, a few weeks ago: directly from Apple’s site.

One that didn’t come with a charging cable.

I wasn’t too worried: as I was told the thing could be charged by hooking it up to my Mac.

Turns out that wasn’t quite the case.

It was running low on charge, a few days ago, so I hooked the controller to my Mac … and left it over night.

It didn’t charge the thing: but did pair it with the Mac.

In much the same way we pair a bluetooth mouse or keyboard!

Yes: you’re right.

I’m going to buy a charging station, today … 

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