Is there anything better than book mail? I live in a small town without a dedicated bookstore – we have a university bookstore and a small books section in a games story – so getting book mail is how I get most of my new books. Except for this weekend, since I’m in the Twin [...]
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One of the things that started to bug me in 2014 was my contribution to the “cult of busy” or “the busy trap” – the way people have of lamenting how busy they are in such a way that it becomes a kind of humblebrag, a complaint disguised as a boast to show how important [...]
Briefly | It has been an eventful week! A new restaurant opened in town (this is a huge deal for a town our size), work was very stressful, and we had a plumbing issue in our basement. Our landlord is coming to look at it again today… hopefully it’s an easy fix. Time and Place | [...]
Time and Place // 9:30 a.m. at my desk in my office (an actual separate room) in our new house. Last weekend, I was in the Twin Cities to cheer on my friend Erin in a half marathon. Then on Wednesday, I had to drive to the Cities again for a training. I put a lot [...]
Briefly // Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes on last week’s Currently post. I had a nice day off on Monday and a generally chill day on my actual birthday, Tuesday. Twenty eight is gearing up to be a good year. Time and Place // About 8:45 a.m. at my desk. This weekend is our [...]
March has been a strange month. I’ve been feeling rather discombobulated for the last few weeks, which has made it difficult to read or, to be honest, focus on getting blog posts up and written. I’m not sure how that is all going to play out for April, but I’m optimistic. Overall, March was a [...]
February is a weird month. It’s short, cold and hard to spell (maybe that last one is just me?). But because I didn’t have any travel plans this month, I managed to finish nine books, including one chunkster of a biography: Harford, Tim: The Undercover Economist Strikes Back (nonfiction) Janik, Erika: Marketplace of the Marvelous (nonfiction) Hoffman, Carl: Savage Harvest (nonfiction) [...]
I started January reading ALL THE BOOKS, then slowed down pretty dramatically at the end of the month. After finishing five books in seven days, I only finished two for the entire rest of the month. I’m not to worried about it though, since I think the quality of the books I finished was pretty [...]
Briefly // The weather has managed to throw wrenches into my plans twice this week. I was supposed to drive to Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon for the Minnesota Newspaper Association convention, but a blizzard warning all day kept me at home until Thursday morning. I was planning to stay until Sunday — hanging out with friends [...]
Time and Place // 10:50 a.m. at my desk Eating // Shredded wheat (I have a strange fondness for this cereal) with strawberries Drinking // Peach black tea, as part of an effort to drink up my existing tea collection before I buy new flavors. Reading // After an initial reading binge to start out the [...]
