Issue 4: Hitting Some Kind Of Stride
This week, I’m talking about little bit about scheduling your downtime, sharing a small collection of links that I’ve come across, and a quick thought on POSSE.
I feel like this newsletter is starting to come together a bit more with every passing week. Hopefully you think so too.
I Suck At R&R
I don’t know how this happens every weekend, but my wife and I will often talk about wanting to go do something that recharges us during the weekend —visiting a nature park, for example— and then Sunday evening comes around and we’ve done nothing but run errands and handled family obligations.
I don’t know how this happens, but we’re going to try scheduling this in our family calendar for the coming weekend. Apparently errands, like clutter, will expand to fill all available space.
Am I the only one this happens to? Tell me how you manage to not be working and doing chores and running errands all week, please. I NEED TO KNOW.
Around The Web
- The folks behind the excellent iA Writer apps have created a notebook for writers that looks gorgeous. At CAD$103 before shipping and taxes, though, that’s a buck thirty-seven a page. I’m already way too stressed about “journaling right” in my much-cheaper-but-still-expensive Leuchtturm1917s.
- There’s evidence that the newest shingles vaccine may prevent dementia even better than the last. We’re not sure why, exactly, but I’ll likely be getting one as soon as I’m eligible. Shingles sucks.
Thought Of The Week
The social media landscape has gotten more and more fragmented for me since Xitter became a hellscape. This feels like a win for POSSE —Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere, or “broadcast to social from your blog”— but the problem with this is that I have way fewer meaningful interactions, because I’m not paying any attention to what’s going on out there.
I’ve mostly settled on using Mastodon and Threads. Have you experienced the same? How are you dealing with it? Let me know.