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12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 12: Home

A cozy fireplace with a burning fire is behind a protective screen.

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 11: Feast

A plate of cannelloni with salad is served alongside a glass of Erdinger beer on a table set for a meal.

🎄Merry Christmas!

Family group shot with many wearing Christmas hats

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 10: Travel

A pedestrian crossing button is attached to a pole beside a road with houses and cars in the background.

🎶 II by Voices from the Lake is good for getting focused

An abstract blue and white artwork with text reading Voices From The Lake II at the top.

🎶 Great version of A Dawning at 9:34

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 9: Baking

Diced potatoes are spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, placed on a stovetop above an oven set to 400°F.

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 8: Grinch

A green sweater features a grumpy face wearing a Santa hat with the words CURRENT MOOD below it.

Finished reading: Seemed inevitable that The Last Town by Blake Crouch would become a mostly straightforward action plot with lots of shooting. Still entertaining, though not nearly as good as the first book in the series. 📚

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 7: Solstice

A serene sunset over the ocean with a rocky shoreline and a dark sandy beach.

Finished reading: Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe continues a great series. I can’t understand how I lasted this long without reading these books. So many elements that are what I look for in a book: sci-fi, fantasy, and an unreliable narrator 📚

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 6: Sparkle

A festive Santa Claus decoration features a red and white tinsel outfit with a green holly accent on the hat.

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 5: Beard

A razor with an orange handle is next to a shaving brush with a black base on a bathroom counter.

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 4: Evergreen

A glowing green Christmas light bulb nestled among the branches of a Christmas tree.

Came home to a mess of needles, ornaments, and water. Our Christmas tree fell over! George looked very nervous, as if I would blame him for it. The tree is back up and tied to the wall with some rope. Hopefully that fixes it

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 3: Firelight

A campfire emits glowing sparks into the night sky by a tranquil lakeside.

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 2: Cozy

A hand holds a blue mug of coffee in front of a lit fireplace on a wooden floor.

❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 1: Frost

Water droplets are accumulated on a frosty window, reflecting sunlight.

🖖 Star Trek: Khan was better than I expected with a nice character arc for Khan. The Vulcan Hello podcast has a nice review too

🏃‍♂️ I might regret this

A person wearing a blue jacket and gloves is checking a smartwatch that displays the weather in Toronto as -11°C and cloudy.

🐶 George is a good pillow

A person is lying on a couch, embraced by a golden retriever.

Why RSS matters

And yet, despite being everywhere, RSS is somehow invisible. It’s the plumbing of the web: essential, reliable, and routinely underestimated. Most people who consume news this way don’t know they’re using RSS, and a surprising number of people who work in media don’t know they’re dependent on it for much of their reach and many of their partnerships.

Inspired by Ben Werdmuller‘s post, I’ve recommitted to Reeder. I’ve moved all of my feeds, newsletters, YouTube subscriptions, and podcasts into the app to have one place to get everything. Reeder has a great, clean interface that integrates all of these sources well.

🏃‍♂️ Ice and snow on today’s run made for a good ankle workout

A snow-covered path leads under a graffiti-covered bridge, surrounded by bare trees, with fitness tracking information displayed at the bottom.

Finished reading: I enjoyed Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. An imaginative mix of ecology, evolution, and sociology📚

🎶 David Byrne’s Tiny Desk Concert is great fun

🍕 Cooking pizza while it snows

A freshly baked pizza is being cooked in an outdoor pizza oven, illuminated by its internal flame, against a nighttime residential backdrop.

Finished reading: Medieval Horizons by Ian Mortimer makes a good case that the Middle Ages were a dynamic period that made many contributions to our modern world 📚

🐶 Bacon please

A dog rests its head on someone's lap looking at a plate with bacon and remnants of food.

🏃‍♂️ Although the novelty will wear off quickly, fun to have a proper winter run

A snowy pathway lined with bare trees is shown alongside running statistics indicating a distance of 15.22 km in Toronto with an average pace of 5'59/km.

Been a while since I did a Spartan race. I’ve got some training to do

A Spartan event ticket for Blue Mountain Spartan Super 10K, scheduled for October 18, 2026, with a participant named Matt Routley and ticket status as pending.