STATUS / Day 1 of staying at the parents’ to caretake for dad. My cat Loki is leaning against the back of the laptop and snoozing as I type this.
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Status 2024-04-22
This is something I’m trying to do to blog more and “live” on the blog instead of on social media (which I’m mostly not on anyway). Several of my favourite bloggers have this daily “status update”-type thing. Let’s see if that helps. This obviously won’t be going into the newsletter.
The idea is to take a status call at the beginning of each weekday. If it doesn’t work out over time, I’ll just delete all the entries.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 16: Live and Learn
It’s been a while since I sent one of these. Two months, to be precise, but I needed the break.
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Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 2
(This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.)
The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32.
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Autopilot Scheduling
After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of organisation into my work life. I’ll be talking more about this in future blogposts, as I think out loud about what works for me.
The first thing I went back to doing, though, is to put tasks on autopilot. This means that at any point of the day, I already know what I’m supposed to be doing, because I’ve decided on it the previous night.
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Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1
In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned by Disney, so Marvel wasn’t as invested in the X-Men, but they tend not to come out and admit that.)
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Dune Part 2
K and I watched Dune Part 2 last week, and my thoughts on this one are largely the same as my thoughts on the first one.
It’s beautifully designed and mounted, with great sound design. I’ll definitely be buying the Art of book, as I did with the first one.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages
I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my blog in that time either (as I had intended).
There’s a simple reason for that – I’ve been going through stuff. For three weeks, I was busier than I’ve been in a good while, partly because work just lined up that way, partly because back pain slowed me down, and because sometimes you just have more work to do.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives
Butter Docs (or, New writing apps don’t work so great)
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E-book reissue of Forgotten Lives
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation
Reorganisation
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Books: The Giggle
Films: Fallen Leaves, Fargo, Bottoms, The Silence of the Lambs
Plays: God of Carnage