At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Picked up my Earth ticket on Sunday evening when I happened to walk by the Chapel on Mission. Can’t remember the last time I bought a physical ticket at a venue days in advance of a show.
▰ Changing from one brand of earbuds to another means learning a whole new range of controls and context-specific sounds, and getting used to a different set of options, and to the unique tonality of the sonic artifacts resulting from digital processing.
▰ I probably should have turned on the lights in the kitchen before preparing granola this morning. If it’s possible to overdose on nutmeg, I’ll know shortly.
▰ Afternoon trio for dryer, bathroom fan, and passing bus.
▰ Read a lot this week (Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, Michael Connelly’s The Black Echo), but only finished reading one book, a graphic novel titled The Phantom Scientist by Robin Cousin, who tells a story at once scientific and elliptical, with strong echoes of Chris Reynolds and Jason Shiga, not to mention Don DeLillo. I really dug it, but if someone can explain its ending to me as being anything more than artfully oblique, I’d be thankful.
