🎧 A poignant memorial to a father in this episode of Strong Songs

Finished reading: I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne is quite the tour through rock and roll debauchery. Hard to understand how he got anything done. Great excuse to revisit the music though 📚

Finished reading: A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna is a compelling and fascinating book about us, our culture, and our future. Any book like this has a unifying principle and I found this one’s focus on Energy Return on Investment intriguing. 📚

🏊‍♂️ The lake is the only cool place around here and I’m grateful for it

Finished reading: I really liked the premise of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: how would people adjust to being brought from the past into the present? Well written too. The last third was a bit too much standard time travel plot though, which detracted from the cool premise 📚

First week of vacation was a great success

🏃‍♂️ A sobering war memorial on today’s run. Likely a large proportion of the young men in the area are inscribed on it

George has settled into cottage life

Finished reading: Although it took two library loan periods, I enjoyed Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan 📚

Finished reading: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older continues a fun series: solving mysteries on a gas giant planet. 📚