Tonight’s kitchen victory: fried rice, the last batch I’ll cook on this stove, which has served us well for 20 years.

Current earworm: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys.

Played Magic last night with Greg, his son, and the dude.

Got another few inches of snow last night, probably the last for a while.

We got snow showers over the course of the day yesterday, then 3″ overnight. The bambina has had only one partial day of school so far this week.

Finished reading The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, followup to The Bear and the Nightingale. I enjoyed this one, too, and it had more consistent drive than the first, but Arden relied on a particular plot contrivance trope a little too often for my taste.

There was a dusting of snow yesterday, and then maybe a half inch to an inch overnight, enough at least to delay school (though the bambina is sick).

Meghan and I saw the dude this afternoon.

Brief snow this morning; pretty, and no accumulation.

Touched up my resume and sent it off this evening, the most job-searching-like activity I’ve done in 14 years.

Finished reading The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. This book managed the neat trick of being, simultaneously, a sci-fi novel, a thriller, and a romance novel, and pretty good at all three.

Sometimes I entertain myself by explaining today’s world to Samuel Pepys. This book has taken some of that work off my shoulders, for a little while.

Feels like every day I put another tally mark in the column for “move out to a cabin and write screeds”.

Finished reading The Wordhord by Hana Videen. This was a fun amble through some Old English vocabulary, not especially deep or challenging, but fun and interesting.

Saw Mom and Greg.

Walked down to Wallingford: 16k steps, 8 miles, 2½ hours, plus a 30-minute coda back to the U District. Glorious day for it: clear, cold, and dry.