What's Doing Now(ish)
Projects I'm Focusing On Now
Last Updated February 19, 2024
- Setting up this website and populating it with content I hope is interesting. In the process, learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a goal of adding a database and learning Python or some other programming language. Medium to high bar.
- Trying to get my running mile pace consistently under ten minutes without getting injured. Medium bar. HOWEVER, as of 2/19/24 this item is on hold pending a focus on skiing and general fitness for that.
- Establishing, or re-establishing, a daily writing practice of at least 250 words a day. Low bar on volume, medium to high bar for consistency.
Fitness Activities I'm Doing Now
- Pilates
- Skiing
- Running
- Tracking mountain lions (kidding, but I know someone who does it for real)
Books I'm Reading Now (usually too many and this time is no exception)
- Erasure by Percival Everett, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Graywolf Press of all places. Another attempt to read some fiction. Not sure Lincoln Highway is going to happen. This one became a movie I want to see, so stay tuned. Looks promising.
- Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin. Crown. 2023. How exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world. On the Nonfiction New Book shelf at the library. Hooked me. Have to return before I go back north in a couple of days so I will read intensively or not at all.
- Just My Type by Simon Garfield. Gotham Books. 2011. A book about fonts. Who wouldn't want to read this?
- Teach Yourself HTML, CSS and JavaScript by Lemay, Colburn and Krynin. SAMS. 2016.
- On Writing by Stephen King. Scribner. 2000. A memoir of the craft.
- How to Think About Exercise by Damon Young. Picador. 2014. In association with The School of Life, a philosophical look at exercise.
- Spring Chicken by Bill Gifford, a journey into the world of anti-aging science. Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
- You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier, Knopf 2010, an exploration of the ways technology is shaping us. A bit older, but seemingly still quite relevant.
- How to Live or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Other Press, 2010. And The Complete Essays of Montaigne translated by M. A. Screech [what a name!], Allen Lane Penguin Press, 1991.
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, Viking, 2021. Recent fiction! A total rarity for me.