Balanced read: senior military figure with documented service appointments, and sustained international human-rights criticism and sanctions action.
Halloween brought scattered shout-outs, vivid Mirtazapine dreams, tech and industrial ambition, nostalgia about stores and Sean Connery, and the sense that the month was closing in a strange mix of exhaustion, sadness, and...
The public record is sparse here, which leaves the day feeling more like a held-back page than a fully narrated one, with the omission itself becoming part of the mood.
The day was dominated by an islandwide power cut, retention worries, hiring, and messy internal deal politics, with me trying to hold the company together while recalculating loyalty, commissions, and who still mattered.
The watch errands mattered more than they should have, and the day became a mix of liquor-business chasing, defence ambition, sentimental objects, and the strange comfort I found in my own rituals.
I stayed in negotiation mode from start to finish, juggling calls, pressure, tactics, and private anger while trying to keep control of both the deal and my image.
I wanted the day to be quieter than it was, but it turned into a mix of politics, TV, restless thinking, and a small reset walk that helped me regain control.
I numbed out with Fleabag, doomscrolling, and old memories, while politics, online conflict, and my own darker loops kept pulling the day away from any real rest.