Currently reading: Brave New World 📚
After getting burned out by Agatha Christie (I'm reading all of her books in chronological order since 2018, and it's so repetitive I need to take enormous breaks from time to time), I decided to pivo...
Week 19: Time is relative
I did it again. This week note is twelve weeks long. Clearly, the concept of time is completely relative and a week can be as long or as short as I see fit.
George Soros trading advice
"It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, it’s how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong".
— George Soros
Moved to PureBlog
Migration completed! This little blog is now running on PureBlog, by Kev Quirk. He did an incredible job with this tiny cms. First I migrated my mom's blog from HTMLy to PureBlog. It took me longer to...
2025 Book Reading Goals
I’m really pleased with my book reading this past year. I had a goal of 10-12 books in 2025, no pressure… I have too many hobbies to commit deeply to anything. I managed to read 19!! 🤓📚
Open unsupported old camera files in DxO Photolab
Going through photos of my dog and found several taken with a Fuji F600exr, a camera not supported by DxO. Just used my own hack to solve this inconvenience. Done. Files opening without issues, all ed...
Goodbye Astro
Today we had to say goodbye to Astro. I don't know how to live without him. I'm devastated. I want him back. I want more time together. I love you, Astro. 🐶💔
Lamy Safari with Pelikan Blue-Black
Inked my Lamy Safari with Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black and it is so much better than the Lamy's Amazonite I was using before. I thought I was too messy, smudging everything, fountain pens were not for me. Turns out it was the lamy ink! Now I'm finding excuses during the day to write by hand, lol. 🖋️
The more time I spend with my sketchbook
The more time I spend with my sketchbook, the less I want to be online. It's all so boring, blogging, reddit, youtube, all of it. I want to be all the time in the real analog world, with paper and pen, my cameras, my piano, gardening, baking. I'm so tired of the internet, it's not fun anymore.