Finished reading: Earthseed by Octavia E. Butler is a powerful story that is surprisingly optimistic for a dystopia 📚
Day 9: Language
Day 8: Yonder
Day 7: Panorama
Almost BBQ’d a mouse! Spotted it just as I was turning on the burner.
Day 6: Well
Day 5: Forest
Day 4: Orange
Day 3: Precious
Day 2: Buildup
Not a great start to Season 2 of Invasion. The ease with which Mitsuki easily dispatches a half dozen invaders doesn’t suggest much jeapordy.
I really liked the initial mystery and slow build of the first half of Season 1. So, will stick with Season 2 for now 📺
Day 1: Abstract
Finished reading: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison is a great story about an outsider being thrust into power and the decisions they need to make without compromising their ideals 📚
Photos of a dog at a cottage
Lucy enjoyed her time at the cottage
The only perk of returning home from a cottage vacation is that I got to watch the season finale of Strange New Worlds. Great show! 🖖
Last night of vacation
I’ve been making an effort to listen to the Moments in Waking Up when the randomly timed notifications come in. This one resonated with me today: “We too have problems that cannot be solved by more thinking”
Finished reading: I really enjoyed Hands of Time by Rebecca Struthers. Although notionally about mechanical watches, there’s also interesting ideas about time, building things by hand, and focusing on what really matters.
The book also resurrected an internal debate about the Apple Watch vs mechanical watches. For now, I’m going to take this as inspiration to reconsider my watch faces 📚
Finished reading: Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson finishes the remarkable trilogy. Robinson’s meticulous detail (though occasionally overwhelming) really brings Mars to life, along with compelling characters and ideas. Although I sympathize with the “reds”, I think the series ended appropriately 📚
I’m disappointed that Amazon cancelled The Peripheral. Season 1 was really good 📺