Currently reading: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton 📚
Finished reading: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 📚Highly recommended. One of the things it shows is that our concept of diversity is so puny. Imagine a college campus with humans, humanoids, jelly fish beings, sentient trees, and more.
Pandemic World
In 2019, I drove about 19,000 miles and 25% of those miles were for business.
In 2020, I drove about 9,000 miles and less than 10% of those miles were for business.
Finished reading: Foundation by Isaac Asimov 📚 So many men. One woman, I think, and all she cares about is jewelry.
Finished reading: Ulysses by James Joyce 📚 Skipped 100 pages in the middle, the “play.” Yeah, imagining the internal monologue of a bunch of often drunk men has its allure but does get tiresome.
Currently reading: Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston 📚
Currently reading: Foundation by Isaac Asimov 📚
One of the many things I love about winter is yummy oranges.
Finished reading: Ready Player One 📚Read it mostly so that I could say, “yeah, I read it.” A fun read but not very deep or meaningful.
Currently reading: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
🏃♀️ Run at 9 degrees F today (-13 C). First run in such cold weather. Luckily, I’ve been collecting gear for cycling and walking and skiing for decades, so was able to cobble together enough clothing to keep me warm but not hot.
Ministry for the Future Book Club
📚 One of my favorite futurists is Bryan Alexander, thinker in the academic space. I’m reading this book because he’s sponsoring a book club for it. The comments so far from fellow readers have been fascinating and thought-provoking. The book club is back with Ministry for the Future | Bryan Alexander
The plot focuses on a new United Nations agency tasked with addressing the problem, and how they proceed. A counterpoint character is an aid workers who survives a horrible disaster and tries to figure out how to live afterwards. It’s a rich, ambitious, and frankly optimistic book, and might be just what we need now.
Finished reading: Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚 Definitely 5 ⭐. The best book I’ve read in a while and one that gives me some hope for the future of our planet amidst climate change. It’s speculative fiction and I’m sure there’s a bunch of unrealistic enthusiasm for things like blockchain and regenerative agriculture, but this is an educational read and a fine novel. Everyone should read this book.
So sad right now
#MicroMonday I recommend @mpmilestogo who has been sharing beautiful photos of life in Vietnam
Whew, 48 hour power outage due to about a foot of snow on Saturday. Recognizing how lucky we are to have good electricity 24 hours a day.
Finished reading: Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs 📚I think my favorite thing about this book (thank you @ayjay) is the permission it gives to read old books. If the book is no longer politically correct, that’s OK, accept it and use that for insight into the time when it was written. @ayjay is much more nuanced and this book is definitely worth reading.
Currently reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 📚
I have to say that I love working out in my own little office. Total privacy, I can listen to whatever music I want, and if I look silly, I’m the only one who will laugh. I will probably never go back to a gym. #tinypandemicwin
I’m always trying to reinforce good habits and defang bad ones. At 60, I’ve learned this never ends. #mbnov
I’m a dope! Missed my mbnov post for yesterday. I wish I could be a time-traveling pedestrian and walk back to the 28th. Oh, well.
Longest run!🏃♀️4.8 miles in just over an hour. Felt good the whole way. I’m doing 3 minute runs and 30 second walks, over and over. It seems like I could run forever this way.
Finished reading: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker 📚 I enjoyed this novel a lot, even though it’s about a post-pandemic world. It was written pre-COVID and she got an amazing number of details correct. As an occasional sound tech and concert producer myself, I loved the little snippets about live sound production.
There’s no dilemma here, I’ll have both types of pie please. #mbnov
I’m in the office this morning but gave some thought to the tiny Tgiving dinner for me and hubby tonight. I realized that if I adjust the recipe for the squash/broccolini dish, I can cook the squash first, then the turkey, then add broccolini and all will finish together. #mbnov