We spent the weekend getting the house back in order after spending the past 10+ days in Covid quarantine. I got pretty sick on November 1, and spent the better part of 5 days in a heavy flu-like state. My fiance caught it as well and thankfully did not get as sick as I did. It totally screwed up my work week. I’ll also note for future me that two people trying to work from home in a house not designed for that is way more challenging than I would have expected.

Recent Media

  • I rewatched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty while sick. The feel-good vibe, even with the not-so-great writing, always makes me smile.
  • I was flabergasted to find out that my fiance had never seen Fargo. Always worth a rewatch.
  • We finished Band of Brothers in October. I had held off on watching this for reasons unknown. It’s a fantastic show, and we really enjoyed hearing and seeing the men who had made up the famous Easy Company. Looking forward to the upcoming Masters of the Air.
  • On one of my early, super flu days, I fired up Silent Running. I had fond memories of this scifi movie. There are some pretty serious plot issues, and the music is over-the-top early 70’s with some heady Joan Baez.

Reading

On the book backlog:

  • Monaspace is a new family of monospaced fonts.
  • Chris Glass recounts reading a book his mother had left him. So lovely.
  • Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) - DelFest - Cumberland, MD
  • Now that I’ve transitioned this site over to Jekyll, I started paying around with some admin UI’s. TinaCMS is interesting and works with a ton of platforms. Smashing Magazine has a writeup on how they use it.
  • Stumbled on the Orion browser by Kagi. Webkit, privacy-focused. I’m still using Arc as my daily for work, and Safari for my personal use.
  • I set up a Cloudflare tunnel a few weeks ago for my self-hosted FreshRSS instance. This article was helpful.
  • Your Blog as a Commonplace Book - Wild Rye
  • I use Apple Reminders but nowhere near as deeply as Christopher Lawley does here. Fascinating in that productivity/nerdy way.