So the WoW Forever Beta is in full swing and I’ve been having a blast creating different characters and trying them out. There are many things I love about this new version of the game and I think the new camping feature is top of the list. Gathering

I’m not sure why but I feel like I haven’t blogged in three years even though it’s only been a week and that week went by super fast. Time is weird. Time is sus.

I have no cohesive thoughts for you today so let&

Happy to report that we’ve found a new gardener. Turns out he’s our neighbor’s brother. Presumably he saw the state of our yard and kindly left his card in our mailbox. Yesterday he came by to do a proper survey of the situation and

September journal spread is ready to go.

Happy to report that it’s another big day today as the air fryer I failed to mention we ordered has finally arrived…

… at the store.

We’ve been waiting several weeks for it. So long, in fact, that I don’t actually remember what

Compared with eating between 7 and 8 am, a first meal between 8 and 10 am was associated with a 10 percent higher risk of death from any cause. The difference rose to 19 percent between 10 am and noon, and 29 percent after noon.

Cardiovascular mortality followed a similar

I was scrolling through my RSS reader while trying to figure out what I felt like yapping about today and I came across this post that sent me to this other post about different types of introverts.

I didn’t realize there were different types of introverts but after

Back to editing this morning and it felt less painful than usual so I’ll take that as a good sign that I’m emotionally and mentally ready to tackle this novel again for the last (last last last last totally definitely for sure last) time.

Write a

I wasn’t going to post today because excuses, excuses but I’ve been thinking a lot about consistency, and coincidentally came across this blog post the other day:

I think there are enough people out there so bored on their phone, on their computer, on their whatever,

Today I switched out the coffee beans to a new brand of beans so I had to re-calibrate the settings on the machine. And while we don’t have a “smart” fridge we do have a “smart” coffee machine that walks you through the

It was an all-day ordeal but the new fridge finally, finally arrived many hours past its due time. The first delivery driver took it on a joyride (presumably). The second delivery driver didn’t want to wait around for the first delivery driver because he was supposed to

Our new fridge was supposed to arrive about 25 minutes ago but the delivery guy is on vacation and the one working didn’t want to work today, then wanted to charge the store lady "for a special delivery.” Thankfully she put her foot down and so

So the dishwasher fixed itself! Proof that asking nicely is a perfectly valid DIY solution. (Probably saw me coming with the power tools and went, “Nah, you know what, I’m good.”)

In other appliance news, our new fridge arrives tomorrow. I’m very excited, but

I’ve been posting a lot of notes lately and I think switching to posting on my own site helped with the mental block, though I’m still unsure where to syndicate to. I’ve also been sleeping better now that I’m no longer on

4 things that went wrong this week

1. I broke a glass and it shattered into a million little pieces
2. We ran out of the coffee we like
3. I accidentally flooded the dishwasher and now it won’t run
4. The toilet flush valve broke

5 things that went right

1. Made

EchoFeed will only let me push these notes to one social media account without subscribing for a year and I’m still on the fence whether that’s worth it. Truthfully I’m unsure where everyone is these days. Maybe people just went back to Twitter. Or

The question of where to post something has often kept me from posting anything at all. Should this super important thought go on Bluesky or Mastodon? No, best post it to micro.blog and then cross-post. But nah, maybe it would be better to include it as part of

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient inscriptions carved into the walls of a cave in Valencia, Spain that point to the cult of an unknown or as yet unidentified goddess.

Among the discoveries researchers have made are a small collection of votive inscriptions, which are dedicated to what appears to be a

Shortly after posting this, I read this and I agree that ultimately it all boils down to trust.

Some new authors might have a hard time building an audience in a world where readers become more and more paranoid about accidentally consuming AI-generated content.

I do wonder whether there

Despite the latest crime novel being currently unpublished, film and TV studios around the world had already begun jostling for rights for “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body,” according to Deadline, making it a particularly hairy situation. But AI detectors exposed apparent “fingerprints,”

‘Be yourself’ is great advice, but I’m not sure most people know what that means. First you have to know who you are, what thoughts are yours and not someone else’s. In a world of constant input and infinite scrolling we’ve all

We write to think; both in private, in the sanctity of whatever app we choose, alone with our thoughts, and in public when our words reach total strangers who can mirror them back to us and help us see things we’ve missed.

That’s quite a wonderful

Poe's favorite new spot is under my desk and on top of my standing mat, which I think is funny because that mat has been there for over a year and he's just discovered it.

I’ve been struggling with my sleeping schedule the past few weeks, so I’m happy to report that it’s back on track. Feel like I’ve gone from sleeping like a vampire to sleeping like a self-improvement guru and I can safely say

Fixing your relationship with digital tools requires that you fix your analog life first. It’s not enough to stop using problematic apps and devices, you must also aggressively pursue alternative activities to fill the voids this digital abstention will create: read books, join communities, develop hard hobbies, get

This is the “path to mastery,” George Leonard wrote: not one initial period of agitation followed by smooth, steady improvement, but an endless succession of new challenges, each making a clumsy, disjointed, agitated beginner of you again and again. “And this is the essence of mastery,”

The main reason web surfing is harder now, aside from the gravitational pull of social media platforms, is because outbound links are a lot rarer. Many sites don’t link out at all, because linking out subverts the advertising-driven business model most of them operate by.

Also, because

We are not merely truth-seeking creatures. We are meaning-making ones. A story does not have to be true to become useful. It only has to explain a feeling people already carry.

—“Antarctica, the Sealed Envelope, and the Stories We Use to Feel Less Powerless"

• Drinking freshly brewed coffee
• Reading about Atlantis
• Journaling in a notebook every morning
• Refilling my fountain pens every few days
• Maintaining an analog zettelkasten
• Blogging every Wednesday
• Updating Patreon every Friday
• Outlining a new novel
• Editing an old one
• Keeping up with the world and the small web via RSS