Finished watching: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
Super fun homage to the original. Keaton is surprisingly adept, Catherine O’Hara is just about perfect, and Jenna Ortega continues to do Jenna Ortega things.
Not a perfect movie, but hilarious and …
Reading
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
Book nine of nine is ready to go!
The work doesn’t stop here, but it’s a good milestone on which to end the weekend. Back at it tomorrow.
Book eight of nine is ready to go!
I might actually make it through all of them this weekend. One left… it’s not the longest, but it’s definitely the most difficult.
Book seven of nine is ready to go!
Throughout this editing process, I’ve had a lot of work to do. But this one required almost no updates; for some reason, my penultimate draft was already pretty dang good.
Book number six of nine ready to go!
As always, a bit slower than hoped-for, but other things are getting done today. And now it’s time to be lazy and watch football.
Book number five of nine ready to go!
I’m getting faster as I get into the rhythm of editing. (And yes, obviously, these books are short; book five is 3,200 words without frontmatter or backmatter. But there are a lot of them…)
Book number four of nine ready to go!
My stretch goal is to get them all ready by Monday, but there’s football this afternoon, so I may not quite get there…
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The Other Nebo
In the rolls of the families that first returned to Judah from Babylon, Nehemiah lists “the men of the other Nebo” (v33) and “the sons of the other Elam” (v34).
The weird part is that there is no first Nebo or first Elam in …
It took more time than I wanted tonight, but book 3 is edited and ready to go. Even has a fun cover image made from a photograph I took in Montserrat, Spain.
Six more books to go in this first batch.
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Five more chapters tonight; progress meter up from 25.2% to 25.7%.
I’m working on Judges, one of the most frustrating—and yet relatable—books. Every time Israel descends again into apostasy, you want to scream, “Not again!” And then …
Meera and I were talking about the definition of ska on the last trip to the lake, and today I randomly had a brief clip of a Mighty Mighty Bosstones song jump into my head.
I couldn’t quite place it, but I searched my library for likely songs and …
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“Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.” Nehemiah 5:19 ESV
Nehemiah could not have known how spectacularly God would answer his prayer. The good he did is remembered in his own words throughout time and …
Today is the first time I’ve been on top of the leaderboard for any of the Lex.games, however briefly. I’m not signed in so you have to trust me, but I’m the “Undisclosed Strategist” with a time of 26 seconds.
Which will inevitably be beaten, and …
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That was an exhausting study/writing session, but I’ve completed chapter 300 of 1189 (25.2%).
Only 54 more sessions that hard to go, and I’ll be done!
(Writing. I’ll be done writing. Editing and publishing are another matter.)
Since I now have an actual chapter-count target (1,189), I feel like I should build a Brandon Sanderson-esque completion meter somewhere. But that would entail more procrastination and less writing, and I’m trying to write more.
So I’ll …
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Things I never noticed: the night of the transfiguration is the first time we see Moses in the Promised Land. He finally made it!
(Via a post on r/Bible this morning)
After a hard weekend of drinking beer at the lakewriting and editing, I’m reasonably confident I have two books ready to go, of the nine whose contents are done.
But every little step makes the next one easier.
Writing an About the Author page is surprisingly challenging. How do you distill yourself into a hundred words that simultaneously introduce you, provide bona fides, amuse the reader, and point them toward your other works?
I’m pretty sure I …
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I am editing a series of books I am writing, and despite the fact that I typed every word of it, it’s helping me see and understand new things in the Bible.
Tonight’s example: the repetition of the Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 12) to his …
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Finished reading: Royal Assassin (The Illustrated Edition) by Robin Hobb
The world continues to intrigue me, and Fitz continues to be a great conflicted character. I do think Hobb delights just a bit too much in hurting him, and the ending was even …
Could hardly ask for a more perfect Saturday: football and beer with Meera at the lake.
Headed up to the lake today for some big weekend plans: food and football. And pumpkin beers.
Meera and I also finished the Harry Potter series, pretty much entirely this week. It’s part of the ritual of oncoming fall, which will continue this weekend with the first of the pumpkin beers (this year, they are Sam Adams and Dogfish Head).
Feel very accomplished tonight after wrestling with Python, pandoc, and make. I can now produce Jekyll posts and well-formatted PDF ebooks from the same source.
A Friday night well spent?
Tuck has found a new spot to sit while I’m working from home or writing for myself.
