What I’m Doing Right Now

Last updated Monday, January 12, 2026 from my home in Wisconsin..

Recently

Happy new year!

2025 recap coming soon…

Projects

• Building Olima and Olipods.
• oliver - a jekyll theme - a new design for my personal website. I really like Jekyll, but I have very little experience with frontend web development (mainly CSS), so it’s been a good learning project.

Reading

I often find myself reading too many books at once.

I am calling 2026 the “Year of the Chunky Book” since many of the books I want to read this year are…rather enormous.

Currently

Fiction

• Blood Meridian
• Catch-22
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Robin Buss Translation)

Non-Fiction

• The Anxious Generation
• On Tyranny
• Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

On-deck

See my my profile on StoryGraph or Goodreads.

Note: I set up a StoryGraph account at the beginning of the year - tenatively planning on switching to that from Goodreads, but I am updating both for now.

Books I read this year

• The Butcher’s Masquerade

Books I Read in 2025

• The Gates of the Feral Gods
• The Will of the Many
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Circe
• Misery
• A Dance with Dragons
• Wool
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
• The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
• Piranesi
• The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
• Good Morning, Midnight
• Onyx Storm
• East of Eden
• The Way of Kings
• Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
• Dungeon Crawler Carl

Playing

• Stardew Valley
• Balatro
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Watching

Nothing regular at the moment.

Recently watched:

• Wake Up Dead Man
• Stranger Things 5

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