Writing, writing, and you guessed it…

Books and stories on the boil 📚 A sci-fi romance novella 📕 A contemporary romance novella 📗 That’s it! I’ve vowed not to put more on my plate until it’s clear.

Staying active

Coasting along in weekly pole classes and near-daily walks. Just strolling for 15–20 minutes most days has been so good for my mind. I wish the air was cleaner where I live, but it’s pretty decent as far as metropolitan environments go.

Maintenance and care

Reviewing my tech infrastructure because most products out there are overkill for my needs. Seriously, what is up with providers all docker this and repo that? What's wrong with an affordable, minimal something for just a handful of images and flat HTML files? Web 1.0, I miss you ♥️ Btw, I just learned that Website Carbon considers Cloudflare a sustainble webhost, which is nice.

Terra serenus

Our blueberry bush is leafy and green again, since my neighbour’s coffee grounds went into the soil around it. Apparently spent coffee grounds can have a toxic effect on soil, which inhibits plant growth, but in this particular case we seem to be doing all right. The dichondra I gave her in return has begun to wither with the encroaching summer, but if our past year is anything to go by, it’ll spring back soon enough.

Recent readings/watchings/playings

• The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
• Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi
• Macro Economics by Daniel Shore
• Frankenstein (2025)
• The Thing (1983)
• FarmRPG

Misc learnings

How jq and zsh arrays work.
History of modern work.
Crime on the high seas.
Literary techniques.
Cosmology & Big History.
Maintenance mindset.
Linguistics.
Tulpamancy & thought forms.
The Artist’s Way.
Attachment theory.
History of economics.
Digital copyright (ebooks).

Current obsessions

Essentialism.
Pottery.
Handmaking gifts.
Ships & shipping.
Embroidery.
Vampire lore.
Slow productivity.

Pls no

The genocide in Palestine.
Technopoly.
Culture of uncare.
Hyperactive Hive Mind.
Hyperconsumption.
Bullshit jobs.
Big Social.

This "Now" update was inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement and Kohan Ikin’s Now page.