Set You Free

Set You Free

The original came on the radio at work, got me thinking about the FR cover. Actually how I was first introduced to the song! Even though I've always liked it, I don't think I really realised just how good it was as a choice to cover. Considered as a companion piece of the nearby Midnight Organ Fight, the lyrics of the song are recontextualised and it takes on a much more desperate, darker tone.

Just idle office thoughts when I should be working 😅 how do other folks feel about this cover?

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u/lockonandfire — 1 day ago

Swapped out the strap

Seiko SNK803. I used to have it on a navy blue fabric strap of some sort, but fancied a change so picked up this Hirsch leather one. I know the buckle doesn't match the case finishing, but I kind of don't mind it.

u/lockonandfire — 15 days ago

Oh sure, the guy in the 63 hundred dollar suit ISN'T going to claim Arrested Development memes can be posted here because of this one Simpsons reference?!

Come on!

u/lockonandfire — 25 days ago

Tuesday appreciation

There's not much value to this post (so I totally understand if it gets removed), but I'm sat in the office on my own ATM. It's sunny and I'm listening to IBYAT as I'm working and it struck me I'm just having a lovely time. Hope your Tuesday mornings are equally enjoyable!

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u/lockonandfire — 1 month ago

RIP Dermot Murnaghan

Not exactly a celebrity, but a common fixture on UK TVs as a news anchor and in other presenting roles.

u/lockonandfire — 1 month ago

On-the-fly micro adjust mechanisms are entirely unnecessary

Your wrist changes size slightly over the course of a day. You deal with it by jiggling the watch up or down your wrist to accommodate.

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u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

Sorting through some old clothes and found this

Even though it's way too small, basically a second skin on me (belly edited out of frame for the good of the sub 😂), it's not going anywhere.

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

A couple of birthday gifts from my sister

She also got us tickets to go see them in September. (the Narrow Stairs tour was the first time we'd seen them live, that's why she got me that on a t-shirt too).

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

My sister bought me a new Victorinox for my birthday

Just wondering how you guys EDC yours? /s

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

A bit of love for the Addiesdive AD2030

I've had this lad for just over a year, kind of started my watch hobby. I've not worn it in a few months (I generally prefer to have the date on a watch), but got it out of the box today, resized the bracelet and have been loving it again. Great compact size but with a touch of presence, keeps time well with the VH31, and that dial is still cracking. Definitely going to try and wear it more again, maybe as a weekender when the date is less important.

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago
▲ 5 r/Poem

First poem I've written in a long while

Any thoughts/criticisms/advice is much appreciated. I quite enjoyed sitting down and working it out, but it's been quite a few years since I did any creative writing.

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Whenever I think of you, why do I think of you like this?

Why do I imbue an anima that you do not possess?

Why do I envision a person unlike the one I know,

With thoughts, feelings, behaviours, so different from your own?

Why do I only picture your heart simpatico with mine?

Our bodies unblemished and souls pristine ever intertwined.

Over endless days and nights, desperate for something to feel;

So why must my dreams be like this, searching for something unreal?

Why do I throw us into these fictional scenarios,

Of imagined conversations, trysts, and heartfelt cameos?

Why cast us in modern fairytales that end with "true love's kiss"?

Whenever I think of you I think "why? Why am I like this?"

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u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

This was a brand new sensor

Just needed to vent. I put it on, in a site I have used for sensors previously with no issue, it calibrated for an hour as per usual, then gave me error messages for 40 minutes and died. It NEVER worked, never gave a single reading in its brief ignoble life. Now it's gone in the sharps bin. And this message boils my unread blood every time this happens. This isn't about my safety as a user, it's about Freestyle's quality control being absolute bobbins; it is far far FAR from the first time I've experienced this. Utterly infuriating.

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

Lorus lume love

Been outside hanging the washing, came back into the house and went upstairs, watch basically lit up the darkened stairs and landing area. Incredible little thing.

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/crisps

Not crisps, but crisp adjacent?

These were pretty tasty. I'm not usually a huge fan of bacon flavoured snacks, but these were exactly that kind of classic bacon flavouring with a slight extra sweetness. It rounded them out a bit which I really liked. And they were extremely crunchy, as these types of corn snacks are.

u/lockonandfire — 2 months ago

NKD!... A couple days ago

I was completely unable to resist the low price SwissChamp on Amazon. It arrived in the middle of the week, but as it was the black version I also took the opportunity to order blue scale tools and an orange lanyard. This appealed to me because it contrasts my blue scale Recruit with black scale tools (and an orange lanyard).

u/lockonandfire — 3 months ago

SwissChamp for £62 on Amazon UK

I don't know if other localities of Amazon are also running deals on Victorinox SAKs right now, but there are a few on Amazon UK and I thought 62 quid for a new SwissChamp was a pretty decent price.

(Will delete if it turns out this kind of thing isn't kosher here/is actually not that good a deal.)

u/lockonandfire — 3 months ago