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.
Tried to go out to dinner with Meera tonight. Unfortunately, San Antonio.
This ramen—from JY Ramen—was nearly inedible; Meera’s actually was, and therefore remains unphotographed.
Experiment failed.
Anybody have suggestions for actually good ramen in …
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Finished writing chapter notes on Deuteronomy last night, completing the Torah.
Today’s goal: editing. Then I can get them cleaned up for publishing.
Unfortunately, I had to change my YAML scheme recently to make Pandoc happy, so it’s no longer as …
The mornings have been blessedly cooler the past few days (although the humidity has remained in the high 80s) so I’ve been more willing to walk the whole neighborhood with the dog.
I’m amused daily by the variation in tempo he chooses, whether I …
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Finished reading: 2k to 10k by Rachel Aaron.
Picked this up off a Reddit thread. Good thing it was cheap, because it contains little advice a thinking writer doesn’t know (you should do some planning before you start writing!), and it needs editing …
I now have a new category, VerseNotes, to hold microblog-sized comments on the Bible.
I used to do this all the time on Twitter, but I don’t have a public place for it anymore. One day I’ll figure out how to get them all to appear on VerseNotes …
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My Bible reading plan today started three new books: 1 Timothy, Proverbs, and Ezra. It feels like they should be more connected, but I think that’s just how the timing worked out.
One observation is that they’re from three very different eras: Rome, …
Finished watching: Alien: Romulus. I’m not exactly a huge fan of the Alien franchise, but neither was this a particularly good installment. Parts of it were beautifully done, but most of it was unmotivated horror.
And the last conflict in the …
My daily exercise minutes reflects the season and the temperature somewhat cleanly.
The tall spikes are all ski trips—yes, even into April—except the most recent, which was a backpacking trip.
Relatedly, we’re less than a hundred days from the start …
Watched Borderlands last Friday thanks to the Alamo Drafthouse pass. Not remotely worth seeing otherwise. Kind of a fun bubblegum summer action movie though. 🍿
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And speaking of backpacking, I can now add a 🏕️ next to Wyoming for having spent the night outside (three nights, really), and I can justify moving Idaho to “visited” since we spent the night in Soda Springs on the way back (in a hotel). …
First day back at yoga 🧘 after a few days of backpacking 🎒 and camping 🏕️ was instructive.
I almost wrote “demoralizing,” but it’s good to know which muscles work just fine (legs) and which ones need more work (core).
Maybe “trail yoga” should be a …
Stopped in Snake River Brewing in Jackson on our way up to the campsite. I can now check off two more states on my record of Where Have I Been.
Dinner and drinks tonight at Wasatch and Hopkins with Salt Lake City friends; the real adventure starts tomorrow.
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Heading out on my first backpacking trip since before COVID. It’s only a few days on the trail despite needing to take a plane to get there.
I’m a little bit nervous, but that’s what packing lists are for.
So far this week I’m in a cycle of not sleeping enough, then drinking too much caffeine so I can stay awake, and as a result not sleeping enough.
Today is a good day to try something different.
My crew is about to start a new adventure, ironically immediately after @TSindelar@zeppelin.flights and the TPK crew just finished it, seventy-four episodes and a thousand years later…
I finally took the time to write a few more VerseNotes newsletters. Each one takes a surprising amount of time considering that I’ve had dozens of drafts written for ages. (ConvertKit’s refusal to let me paste Markdown properly …