In the latest episode of “toni’s ADHD has served up another hyperfixation” — I want to buy a DJ controller and live my life as my true self, “the dude that always knows what song to play next at a gathering”.
Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This was a re-read, but it still felt thrilling the whole way through. 5-Stars. Again. I read it with my GF and she also gave it 5-Stars. Extra good feeling of recommending a book the other person likes. Overall — 6-star experience!
A Video About Lex Croucher's Novel Writing Journey
www.youtube.com/watch I love seeing how people go about their creative pursuits, and this “start-to-finish” vlog about the journey of writing a novel really rekindled my motivation to write a book. I’m not saying I’m starting today, but I do now own Scrivener and I did …
Another sleepless night because of drones and rockets launched by russia. It’s been a while since they’ve launched these combined attacks, but spring is usually when they start doing it regularly. Seasonal depression is winding down. Glad to have these sleepless nights to keep me in …
The US deciding not to share intelligence data with Ukraine is such a “I’m taking my basketball home because you’re mean to me” move. Petulant toddlers in suits running a global superpower.
My blog might look like I’m reading a book a day, but actually I’m just catching up my micro.blog bookshelf to my Syory Graph. That said, I did finish three different books this week.
Finished reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor 📚
Finished reading: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 📚
Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn 📚
Finished reading: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Nothing like a two-hour work call to kill my “I feel like I can get everything(!!!) done today” mood.
As part of my new goal to “spend time with other people more” I went to a quest room today. We did well. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the Korean food we got on our way back I would have preferred to stay home.
Films Making a Comeback (for me)
After two years of distraction, I’m finally able to enjoy full movies again.
I know the “book review” podcast with my partner is actuallyally happening because we spent several hours tidying up and setting up microphones “just to see if the setup works”. That’s waaaaay further than we’ve gotten with any of our other creative ideas.
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson absolutely blowing my mind with every chapter. I’m sorry to all the other books I’ve abandoned while the Cosmere abducted me, but this is just too good.
It’s been nice using WordPress for many years, but I really miss micro-blogging and so I’ve moved all my crap to micro.blog. Plus: the perk of built-in podcast hosting = I might actually get to making the podcast I’ve been planning to make for 5+ years.
Mistborn by Brian Sanderson
I absolutely blazed my way through the first three books of Brian Sanderson's "Mistborn" series. These books are as good as all the fantasy dorks tell you it is. The first book is, essentially, "what if Ocean's 11, but there's people that use metals to get magic powers?" Like, that premise, in and …
An album I'm liking: Blip
BLIP by NAHreally & The Expert
FL Studio 24 update
This is my first "free lifetime update" with FL Studio and it feels *great*. It's not that I *need* all the new features (though the QOL improvements are welcome), but when a similarly "minor" upgrade came for Ableton I had to shell out, like, $150. So yeah. I'm really happy with my decision to …
Death of the Follower
Patreon and Jack Conte aren't perfect, but for quite a while when they made predictions/placed bets on changes in the creator economy — they were generally right. [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwn6-8XpIuE) All the "platforms" are definitely not prioritizing the "follow" …
New album by Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, STILL RIFT
<a href="https://previndustries.bandcamp.com/album/service-merchandise">Service Merchandise by Previous Industries</a> I've been really waiting for this one to come out. So much so that I actually pre-ordered it!
Sk8 Dreams Animation
This animation made me feel young again. [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6S5spsVOZs)
Performance
For the past couple of days my Morning Pages™️ have been about "performance" in one way or another. On Sunday I wrote about how I got so ingraned in the daily performance of "professional marketing person" that I've kinda forgotten what it's like to be myself — a regular human being. On Monday I …
I find it funny how it seems like everyone in the game is enjoying their life and having fun, even though they are going through an apocalyptic event and it's happening right in front of them. They're all like "shit, the castles floating, some guy from 10,000 years ago wants to kill us all, but dont …
A running list of things I don't like
Why spend loads of time writing about things you hate when you can create one mega-post and just update it as you find new things you don't like? [mastodon.social/@davatron...](https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000/112479724323610058/embed) So A List of Things I Don't Like russia AI being in …