Getting ready for Micro Camp 2021: August 13-14, woo hoo!
Getting ready for Micro Camp 2021: August 13-14, woo hoo!
Finished reading: Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚Beautiful writing. Perhaps an unreliable narrator? I believe that yes, someone should have intervened to prevent two people from becoming the lifelong unhoused.
Hey, Micro.Camp! I’m doing a talk about Agile project management … what do you want to know? I’m recording a short video and wondering what information to include. Your input would be super valuable!
View from our local mountain
I ran sound for a wedding rehearsal yesterday in this beautiful spot. It was the first time I had touched a sound board in over 18 months.
Shared housing is the answer to the nationwide crisis of affordable housing (I serve on the board of this nonprofit)
Finished reading: My Century: A Novel by Günter Grass 📚 My continuing reading project into German/Polish post-WWII history. This one is quite accessible and informative without being pedantic.
Loving my new Stream Deck! I’ve only had it for one day but it’s worth it just for the ease of managing Toggl timing. I’m also enjoying the Apple Music button displays the current album art.
I’m finally moving from LiquidPlanner | Planning Intelligence For Smart Projects to OmniFocus after 15 years. I’m looking for OmniFocus best practices, who are your favorites or what is your structure? I have Kourosh and Sparks.
Interesting community science project
Brain imaging before and after COVID-19 in UK Biobank | medRxiv
We identified significant effects of COVID-19 in the brain with a loss of grey matter in the left parahippocampal gyrus, the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the left insula.
Ugh. I installed Big Sur on Tuesday on my iMac. Now I’m having intermittent network issues – it looks like the iMac is sucking up all my bandwidth (fiber 250M). Reboot fixes it for awhile. Apple Support gives me dumb advice. I make my living on the Internet! Frustrated.
Currently reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: The Arrest: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem 📚
Finished reading: All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski 📚 I’m reading books about Germany and Poland during and after WW2. This one is especially brutal and especially good. It’s the mundaneness of the banal cruelty that is giving me nightmares and that’s the point.
Here’s my utterly baroque method for cooking breakfast cereal.
In a double boiler, add
Cook for 30 minutes, give it a really good stir, let it sit for 15 minutes, give it another good stir. Let it sit for 6-10 hours, then refrigerate.
Heat it up in the microwave, about 2 minutes. Add lots of fruit, fresh yogurt and some soaked chia seeds.
This amount feeds my husband and me for two breakfasts. We look forward to it every single day, year round.
Our local library is partnering with a new international market to do “Spice of the Month” where you can pick up a new spice and check out a cook book. This month’s spice is fenugreek.
I just spent some time in Facebook (trying to keep it to no more than once a week) and then came here to Micro.blog. The difference is stark! I have such a collection of interesting and thought-provoking posts here in MB. Thank you all.
Viewing this story on an iPad is amazing. A really good use of technology. I hope this link isn’t paywalled.
Currently reading: All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski 📚
Finished reading: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 📚 I loved most of this novel but felt that it fell apart at the end. Even so, it’s a contender for Great American Novel.
The effectiveness of rest and pacing make obvious the need for greater workplace protections and an expansion of disability benefits for people with long Covid
I love summer, sourdough waffles with fresh strawberries and apricots 🍞
People who survived Covid-19 are 59% more likely to die within the following six months than people who were never infected
Long Covid May Help Us Understand Diseases Like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Bloomberg
Currently reading: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 📚
Currently reading: The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem 📚