Contact naps: I used to see them as a trap, something that kept me stuck while I could be doing other things. Now I can see them as easy ways I can sneak in extra bits of sleep. Just gotta have my pillow configuration locked in. Perspective!
Another family visit this week. It's interesting that we spent so many years doing so little hosting and now we're getting multiple heavy doses in just a few weeks. Not restful, but a welcome and refreshing change of pace even if disruptive.
I'm very anxious to and nervous about returning to work. So many big shifts in so short a time, it's hard to get my bearings. Each week a new venture into the unknown.
Books
The Hard Way. Finally got some reading momentum back. Chipping away when I'm lucid before bedtime.
Running
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Around the Web
Battleship Pretension episode on how to give [movie] recommendations.
Storied colors. (Thanks, Jara.)
My current gadget-brain phase has me looking long and hard at something like the Xteink X4 or the Boox Picco. Feels like a fun commuting size. Outside of fall/winter when I have big jacket pockets, my Kindle is just big enough that it needs to be in my backpack. Maybe one of these will fix me. Make the good things easy and you'll do them more often.
Music
Mariah's new single is great.
Jeff Redd, A Quiet Storm. "Dance With Me".
Movies
Toy Story 4. Fun! I run a little hot and cold on the franchise, but this was pretty good.
TV
The X-Files, s7e3 "Hungry". Great episode! I like when villains recognize and struggle with their bad tendencies. I also like that Mulder and Scully weren't the main characters in this episode, more just people that appeared a few times in a particular point in the protagonist's life. "I can't be something I'm not".
Over the Garden Wall, s1e1–2. Dark and funny fairy-tale-ish animated shorts. An acquaintance recommmended this to me years and years ago and it stuck in a dusty corner of my mind. Glad I finally followed through. I'll watch more.
Neagley, s1e2–4. We gotta stop torturing people!
Lost, s3e23. I had to go back.