§ Well that was a brief warm spell. We had our first real snowstorm Thursday morning, three weeks later than last year. To celebrate, I cooked a big pot roast and baked a couple of loaves of fresh bread. Given that the garden was overall a bit of a flop this summer I welcome the start of the cozy season.
§ I’ve been trying to remember to make use of my vacation days at work. I had grown so accustomed to saving them up for the wedding and honeymoon that I’m finding myself still unconsciously hesitant to take time off now too. To that end, I decided to take Friday off this week which ended up being a nice opportunity to tidy the house up before the holidays.
§ I’ve been a big fan of James Reeves’ twice-monthly Midnight Radio series for a while now and his most recent mix is his best yet. I mean, come on, just listen to the first bit at least: a punchy bass-heavy Muslimgauze remix of a Ryoji Ikeda track. So good. Long live the MP3 blog.
§ I listen to a lot of podcasts, evidently. Overcast finally launched a “listening stats” feature. So far this year I’ve listened to 678 hours of podcasts, on track to match 843 hours I logged in 2023.
It should be noted that 134 and 249 hours, respectively, were spent listening to a podcast I almost exclusively play while trying to fall asleep. Aside from that, my second most listened to podcast was ATP I’ve spent 132 hours of my waking life listening to so far this year.
It also makes me feel better about my Stratechery subscription which I occasionally regret and temporarily cancel. Between the Stratechery podcast and Sharp Tech I’ve spent 128 hours listening to Ben Thompson.
§ I’ve decided to pause reading Polostan. It just never really ended up grabbing my attention. In its place, I started reading Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry’s charming but terribly named western. I’m already more than 200 pages in so clearly something has clicked.
§ Bluesky still seems to be taking off, continuing to get around a million new signups per day. I still haven’t posted there much outside of these weeknotes. Microblogging just has never really stuck for me. Nevertheless, I took the five minutes to set a custom domain as my handle so you can now find me at @chriswm.com.
§ Oops, next week is already Thanksgiving, huh?
