📚Finished Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Not sure what I think? Rich world with lots of potential and a protagonist who I get more sympathetic with through the story, but who is ultimately still pretty bland. First in a series; might continue it?

Last week was the one year mark of my journaling in this little book. It feels good; I still enjoy the writing, and this is the longest I’ve ever consistently kept a journal.

Snow dog / snow day!

Oh. All of a sudden there’s twelve inches of snow in the forecast. ❄️

My son can’t sleep because he is anxious about being the operator of the New York end of a transcontinental telegraph demonstration that his second grade class has built. He has been rehearsing his Morse code all night. He is ready.

📚I finished American War by Omar al Akkad yesterday. I will be processing on it for a long time. It’s deeply bleak, scary and sad, with a lot to say about empires, refugees and trauma.

Friday afternoon WFH is often espresso time, but I’m feeling like a cappuccino today.

📚 Finished Killers of the Flower Moon. Fascinating and troubling story of how the US government treatment of the Osage enabled murderous conspiracies to claim tribe members’ wealth.

My son beat me in his first-ever game of Unexploded Cow, so it’s a pretty good weekend.

I was a few minutes early for peak alpenglow this morning, but I quite liked the view from my commute cam nonetheless.