Thomil's Random Ramblings

Well, there’s one I didn’t see coming! Sometime in Fall 2021, Apple released their new sixth generation of the iPad mini, a release so far outside of my requirements for a tablet that I did not even remember it, despite the fact that I actually watched the release keynote. Alas, January 2022 brought about a massive change of perspective. As they’d done the previous year, my employer opened up a “gift store” for its employees to coincide with our annual sales kickoff. The offering wasn’t quite as generous as it had been in 2021, which had netted amongst other things a DJI mini 2 and some Apple AirPods Pro . However, my 6th generation iPad from 2018 was getting a bit long in the tooth and as much as I like the Surface concept from Microsoft, the Surface Go 2 was proving to be just a bit too underpowered for me, as well as being too much of a Windows laptop and not enough of a tablet. So, when I saw the iPad mini 6 available in the store, that was pretty much that. That was in mid-Janua

Well, that’s taken longer than expected. I think this may be one of the longest breaks I’ve had yet, at least on my English blog. I’m not sure what caused it. Was it the residual exhaustion following the two years of lockdowns? Was it that commuting took more of my energy than I had anticipated? Honestly, I have no clue, I only know that in the time since February 2022, I’ve been as exhausted as never before in my life. I guess the last couple of years in total have left their mark after all, and I certainly haven’t taken enough time off in the past, something I’m definitely looking to rectify this year! Yet, I’m left to wonder. Given the general sense of apathy and detachment I see all around me these days, have we as a society reached a breaking point? Have we always been this exhausted and it is only now, at the tail end of a pandemic and in the early days of WW3, that we as a species are beginning to realise that some things are very wrong in society? It would certainly be a good t