Been doing these for a week now, and I’ve been enjoying them – forces me to be a bit more mindful about what I’m doing with my time, and keeps me focused on the website rather than on social media as the place where I think.

It might be a good idea to designate these the “Status Updates” and change my weekly “Status”s to “Weeknotes” or something, otherwise it could get confusing. I’ll give it a few more days before that.

STATUS / Regular day, other than attending a friend’s standup comedy show in the evening. Back pain is nearing zero, which is a very good sign. Hope it lasts when I get back to work next week.

ON THE DESK / No work today. Finished a draft of Reading Krakoa Part 3 yesterday, so will edit and post that today. Also, something went badly wrong with the updated theme for the site when I deployed it yesterday, so today will be figuring that out.

READING / Continuing on Nuclear War and Unpersuadables. Toying with adding a novel to the reading cycle, and if it should be The Talented Mr. Ripley.

WATCHING / Midway through Ripley, which I’m watching exclusively till I’m done with it.

LINKS / “Skullpocket” by Nathan Ballingrud / Two rebuttals to “No one buys books” / Abigail Nussbaum on the different versions of Ripley / Where does culture come from?