🏀 Watching Celtics-Grizzlies. My Celtics have had a tough schedule to start the year.

It’s 71° and humid here in Connecticut on November 6th. I had to get my shorts & sandals back out. 😰

Finished reading: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson 📚

“Feast” is apparently not a word in my day-to-day vocabulary. I can’t think of a way to use it in a post that sounds like something I’d actually say.

Does anyone have a Readwise Reader referral that you’re willing to share?

I deeply regret the time, over 6 years ago, that I gave a political candidate a $5 donation and somehow agreed to a lifetime of unblock-able text and email spam.

I figure a second espresso on a grey, rainy morning is the right call.

I’ve been wondering when the new “Orders” button in my Apple Wallet would do something. An order from Lost Art Press showed up a few minutes after I placed it.

Hearts and Chelsea on at the same time this morning. The Chelsea game is obviously on a different level of skill, but I think Hearts are more fun to watch. ⚽️

I don’t feel good about this: VAR comes to Scotland

I’ve been gravitating towards Scottish soccer recently, in part due to the relative simplicity of the league. VAR seems to make everything more complicated, creating as many problems as it solves. ⚽️

A Day in the Life, 2022-10-14 at 8:13a, Nortwest Connecticut, USA.

I try, both literally and figuratively, to put my boots on each morning and get to work. Some days are more successful than others.

Finished reading: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Wow, that was fun.

I did not know that Shantaram was being made into an AppleTV series (starting this Friday!). I loved this book and hope the show does it justice. 📚

I gave the updated Spark email client a trial run. It’s nice, but I’m not to pay for a subscription. I have a few simple filters in Fastmail to separate newsletters and “other stuff” from email written by actual humans. It isn’t as pretty as Spark (or Hey), but it works.

My favorite local grocery store has been stocking more N/A beer lately. I picked up a 4 pack of Wellbeing’s Hellraiser this week. It’s pretty good. I give it a 7/10.

Finished reading: Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson 📚

🖋 Fountain Pen Day 2021.

I celebrated by inking up a new bronze Lamy Al-Star with some KWZ Honey and buying a green ysutdio Classic Revolve. I love my ystudio Brassing portable except for the Schmidt nib it came with so I’m excited to see how ystudio’s new nib writes.

Finished reading: The Every by Dave Eggers 📚

Ouch. A blistering satire of tech and surveillance that hit pretty close to home.

Buy it directly from McSweeney’s to get one of the randomized covers.

Finished reading: Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow 📚