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Finished reading: The Magicians by Lev Grossman.
It was not at all what I expected. Quentin is an unlikable main character; Penny and Eliot are hardly fleshed out; and Alice… well, I like Alice a lot. I really get the feeling Alice is the true main …
The Hokies and the Mustangs both won yesterday (even if the Mustangs win was maybe the ugliest I’ve ever seen), and we hiked a few miles together this morning. Can’t ask much more out of a weekend.
Europeans who feel superior about social welfare programs should be reminded that every European city inescapably assaults visitors with secondhand smoke. So gross. Please fix.
Beer and cold cuts by the Duomo Milano is a great way to start this trip.
Perfection?!
Conlextions #394 🟪🟦🟨🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
Solve Time: 1 minute, 27 seconds
It was bound to happen; today it did.
Six Appeal #191
I solved Six Appeal #191 in 7 seconds!
Real words guessed: 1 × 100 = 100 Remaining guesses: 6 × 200 = 1200 Time bonus: 293
Total score: 1593
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A list of beers we tasted during this year’s start-of-Fall Oktoberfest/pumpkin beer tasting, sponsored (not really) by H-E-B.
Today my morning pages led me to sermon notes I took in 2018.
That’s the whole point of PKM/Obsidian, but it’s not often that I get that kind of serendipity, so it’s delightful when it happens.
Our traditional Oktoberfest pumpkin beer tasting has begun!
I have been using a wireless keyboard at work and at home for years because I hate all the wires all over my desk. But since I got a new keyboard for my home office, I’ve left it wired as an experiment, and the additional responsiveness is …
All the times I have read Esther, and today I realized for the first time that she was an orphan. Somehow the fact that Mordecai was raising her didn’t clue me in on that obvious implication until today.
It’s not hidden! I’m just blind.
Re-read your …
Finished reading: Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb
I cannot express my despair at the end of this book. As soon as I saw where the ending was headed, I didn’t want to keep reading and nearly put the book down. Kudos to the author, I guess, …
A few weeks ago, I published Why Does Daniel Go By His Hebrew Name, But His Friends Go By Their Chaldean Names?.
Tonight, I was looking through old Twitter threads (as you do), and found the original: I first tweeted that thought on March 27, 2018. …
I do not enjoy playing sysadmin for VerseNotes. On the other hand, I do enjoy paying very little for my hosting plan. This is a conundrum.
(Context: certbot renew failed. I had to manually restart nginx and re-run. I don’t know why.)
Latest travel saga over. Spent more than two hours on the tarmac in Charlotte waiting for them to figure out a water issue. They even tried power cycling the entire aircraft. Eventually they gave up and loaded on more water and hand sanitizer.
So we …
The current plan for the maintenance problem for the airplane I am in is literally “turn it off and back on again.”
Amazing.
Eventually I will get home. ✈️
Our flight from Dayton back to San Antonio was delayed from 12:30 to 3:30, then 5, then 7. We rebooked and drove to Cincinnati to catch a route through Charlotte instead of our original layover in Dallas.
Our flight to Charlotte left 20 minutes late …
Finished reading: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.
I went into this book thinking it was more YA fantasy. And it is! A special girl goes to school where her mom is in charge, and she learns she’s even more special than she thought! The small-town …
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 …
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…)
