Current earworm: “Car Wash” by Rose Royce / “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel medley (cursed).
Current earworm: “Car Wash” by Rose Royce / “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel medley (cursed).
Finished rereading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Still has off-putting elements, but I’m charging ahead to the next book.
Musing about what it would take to turn the long walk journal into a print-on-demand book.
Spent the day with Meghan’s mom on Tuesday. It was the longest most of us had been away from home for more than a year.
I shook out most of the bugs, and my long walk journal is now publishing daily for the next couple months.
Had Mom (fully vaccinated for more than two weeks) over for dinner.
Walked seven and a half miles today, to Innis Arden and then Edmonds.
Meghan has gotten her covid vaccine.
Finished God Cancer by Greg Stolze. I didn’t know I was looking for a short horror novel mashup of Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness–style) and cancer, but I sure was.
Finished A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. A satisfying sequel to her first, not flawless but still very well executed.
Just uploaded a bunch of files to the server. My long walk journal should start posting daily, starting April 6, 2021 — four years after the walk.
Finished Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Short and unsettling and very, very good.
Watched Wall-E with Meghan and the bambina. First time for Meghan and me; the bambina had seen part of it in CS class last week.
At the moment, this is what my notional stack of books looks like:
Interspersed in there are Web Typography by Richard Ritter, and various RPG books.
(Really, though, anything past the second is purely speculative, and even the first two aren’t locked down yet.)
Finished reading Cuisine & Empire by Rachel Laudan, a Christmas gift. Fascinating look at how ingredients, cooking techniques, and culinary philosophies have changed and spread over the millennia.