Writing, writing, writing

Books and stories on the boil 📚 A sci-fi romance short story 📕 A sci-fi romance novella

Staying active

Just pole and walking. That’s it and I’m loving it for now, though I’m starting to miss those heavy deadlifts.

Maintenance and care

I haven’t used the Knitpatch yet because it’s too warm to think of heavy fabrics 😅 I did mend the hole in the dress I wore to family Christmas, and I’ve all but given up on mending socks because ours seem to destroy themselves in ways that aren’t easy to fix. How do you mend a swathe of fabric gone threadbare because you walk too hard?

Little discovery: A good way to recycle holey old socks is to dab essential oils on them and stick them on your clothes hangers as moth repellents. Good essential oils, according to possibly non-fact-checked articles online, are:

• cedar
• bergamot
• clove
• lavender
• lemon
• rosemary
• thyme

Terra serenus

About half our garden hates the hot weather. I’m told some natives go dormant in summer to shut out the heat, but revive themselves from Djeran (Autumn) and through winter. WE SHALL SEE.

Recent readings/watchings/playings

• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• Saltblood by Francesca de Tores
• Eraserhead (1977)
• The Blair Witch Projects (1999)
• Shoresy (TV)
• NecroMerger
• Divinity: Original Sin

Misc learnings

Cinematic technique.
Octopus anatomy.
What it’s like to table a market stall.
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.
Attachment theory.

Current obsessions

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

Pls no

Invasions and kidnappings.
The genocide in Palestine.
Technopoly.
Culture of uncare.
Hyperactive Hive Mind.
Hyperconsumption.
Bullshit jobs.

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