The day after finishing off my last mince pie, I have finished off the last of the similarly considerably reduced (but not 90% off) small chocolate bar selection boxes I bought after Christmas, full of fun-size bars or bags so you can enjoy half an ounce of Cadbury's Buttons as a tiny treat.

By convenient coincidence, work sent me a Creme Egg easter egg through the post today...

I do like Christmas mince pies, and I have just finished the last of the ones I bought at 90% off after Christmas. (It still had six weeks until its best-before date, FWIW.) I've had one on the vast majority of days so far this year.

Thanks, mince pies. Thince thies.

Tiebreaker fun in the World Baseball Classic this year, as it progressed through the crucial match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0myEI1Ht_4U

Happily, the GB team managed to win one of their four pool stage games (beating Brazil 8-1) to finish 4th/5 in their group and thus qualify for the finals next time directly rather than having to qualify.

One of the great British sports, baseball! At least, historically...

Very weirdly, the keyboard on my laptop where several of the keys in the top-left haven't been working for months seems to have at least somewhat come back to life by itself.

The e key is working about 25% of the time but that's about 25% more than usual. (I've set up the F9 key as a slightly awkward workaround.) The 1 key is working. Even the q and TAB keys are working more often than not.

it's a bit of a miracle. The e key's return seems to have been very short-lived but the rest seem back.

Much as "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve", three of my very favourite arcade games date from 1986 and thus I probably played them in the late '80s. The fact they turn 40 this year slightly blows my mind.

Here's a delightful, simple music box arrangement of the main theme from _Space Harrier_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqUYeWoqMU

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R5PYkz-nPw&t=226s suggests there used to be a deluxe cab of it in a retro arcade not far away... but a comment to that video suggests they've moved it on. Boo.)