Pretty sure David Frum just said in this NPR interview that we need to give racist nationalists what they want so that racist nationalism will stop tearing apart our civic institutions, but maybe I’ve just been hit in the head really hard.
I saw Darlingside and River Whyless at the MIM last night! Wooowwww! So great, moving, and fun. The closing acoustic encore with both bands was just a treasure. ❤️🎶
Lovely orange and pink sunrise on the horizon while hail comes down in buckets at my house is pretty classic lousy Smarch weather for Flagstaff.
I’m at a solid two feet of of snow at my house, and just learned that the forecast is for 18-24 more inches in the next day. 😵❄️
Having laid in stocks of potatoes, bourbon, coffee, and those little chocolate cookies my wife likes, I am ready for Northern Arizona Snow Event 2019.
This forecast from wttr.in is pretty descriptive but doesn’t mention the 19-25in of snow that’s expected.
I still miss Rdio.
📚Finished Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Not sure what I think? Rich world with lots of potential and a protagonist who I get more sympathetic with through the story, but who is ultimately still pretty bland. First in a series; might continue it?
Last week was the one year mark of my journaling in this little book. It feels good; I still enjoy the writing, and this is the longest I’ve ever consistently kept a journal.
Snow dog / snow day!
Oh. All of a sudden there’s twelve inches of snow in the forecast. ❄️
My son can’t sleep because he is anxious about being the operator of the New York end of a transcontinental telegraph demonstration that his second grade class has built. He has been rehearsing his Morse code all night. He is ready.
📚I finished American War by Omar al Akkad yesterday. I will be processing on it for a long time. It’s deeply bleak, scary and sad, with a lot to say about empires, refugees and trauma.
Friday afternoon WFH is often espresso time, but I’m feeling like a cappuccino today.
📚 Finished Killers of the Flower Moon. Fascinating and troubling story of how the US government treatment of the Osage enabled murderous conspiracies to claim tribe members’ wealth.
My son beat me in his first-ever game of Unexploded Cow, so it’s a pretty good weekend.
I was a few minutes early for peak alpenglow this morning, but I quite liked the view from my commute cam nonetheless.
Light Freezing Fog sounds like something to make an easy CON saving roll against.
What do you say, friends, let’s work from home this afternoon and have an espresso?
Happy puppy turning a corner in the snow — at speed!
2018 Items: An accounting of things in no particular order
Memorable things I did
Dug into a new role at the j-o-b job
Traveled to Carbondale, Colorado for a good friend’s wedding and was inspired to think of friendship and fishing
Went to Disneyland
Took my son to a lot of swimming lessons and saw him improve day by day
Breakfasts at the Tourist Home and dinners at the Whisk and Whiskey.
The Josh Ritter concert in Flagstaff, a magical night
Almost, almost finished a remodel of our bathroom (soon, please)
Tools and things I used
Micro.blog, and my own self-hosted micropub and media endpoints
Fastmail.fm for email
My Xbox Elite controller (freshly repaired!)
Libby, which opened up ebooks and audiobooks from my library in such a great way.
My Lamy Safari All-Black and Monteverde Sapphire
My Nike Metcons. According to Runkeeper I racked up 137 workouts in these. Might be time for a new pair. (41 spins in my Shimano Click’rs)
Ishtar Commander, Discord, and the100.io for my Destiny 2 community
Leuchtterm 1917 dotted journal, the first journal I have actually maintained for coming up on a full year.
Last year’s original iPhone X, and by the way I remain completely satisfied (even delighted, still) by my first gen Face ID.
My 13-year old Patagonia Half Mass shoulder bag
A good soft, warm wool cap from Ibex, a company that has since gone out of business but which also made my favorite cool-weather shirts.
A rolling adoption and then abandonment, a couple times each, of spacemacs, org-mode, and OneNote for work note taking and organizing.
Cartel Coffee’s espresso series
jq: For all my json parsing, API-crunching needs
Things I enjoyed reading, listening to and playing
Waypoint and its surrounding ecosystem of podcasts and forums were the best things for me to listen to and hang out with this year, for lots more than gaming.
Track Changes, the Postlight podcast, consistently has observations and insights that reflect on my own life in a big enterprise.
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, was the best book I read last year. Also Lands of Lost Borders, by Kate Harris.
Frank Turner and Josh Ritter, whose music always finds ways to get me. Plus lots of old and new music on my turntable.
Destiny 2, still my hobby game and pastime
Other notable games include some Fortnite, Forza Horizon 4, Ashen, Into the Breach, and Celeste.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was just so spectacular (as are the great reserved seats at our new theater)
👍 Liked: Automators 14: Automated Journalling
I had no idea that Day One could now be wired to Shortcuts. I have a creaky Launcher action built on the old Day One URL scheme to make a daily entry template, but this is so much cleaner and easier to work with. 📖 (I also have years of daily integration from other sources via Slogger.)
👍 Liked: Library Extension (for web browsers)
Chrome/Firefox extension that checks for availability of books (including ebooks) at your very own local library.
I realized this morning that I have been on micro.blog for just over a year now. So, happy micro anniversary to me :) I continue to enjoy relationships here and the way m.b enables indieweb infrastructure is a great model. Cheers all, @manton and @macgenie!
Xbox Elite controller: Repaired! Just in time for the weekend, too.