Now

Somewhere between the granularity of following my daily updates and my about page here’s a quick outline of things I’ve been doing within the past month or reasonably plan to do in the coming weeks.

What am I focused on Now?

• Finishing up recovery from the Eaton Fire on January 7, 2025
  • A new roof on the house
• Concern for my brother’s ongoing cancer diagnosis and hospice care: fuck cancer
• Searching for something interesting as my next major undertaking
• Repairing, selling, and writing about typewriters

To Do Lists

Learning

• Fundamentals of Hypercomplex numbers
• Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization. 2018. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company. https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/ancient-mesopotamia-life-in-the-cradle-of-civilization.
• Understanding the Old Testament by Robert D. Miller II

Events

• Follow up from IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025
• Planning a Type-In

Reading

• Eliot, George. 2000. Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. 2nd ed. ed. Bert G. Hornback. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Pinker, Steven. 2025. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. New York: Scribner.
• Podany, Amanda H. 2013. The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Near-East-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0195377990/.
• Thucydides. 2008. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. ed. Robert B. Strassler. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Free Press.

For up-to-the-day updates on what I’m reading, see my reading updates. My live annotations from much of my daily reading can be found on Hypothes.is.

Listening

• Streaming & Radio
  • Holiday music, ???
• Audiobooks
  • Alberta, Tim. 2023. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Harper. https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Power-Glory-Evangelicals-Extremism/dp/006322688X.
  • Graeber, David, and David Wengrow. 2021. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything.
• Podcasts: I’m regularly posting my podcast listens to my faux-cast feed so followers can see exactly which episodes I’m listening to, and when files are available, listen to them directly. I did recently return to bookmarking things using Huffduffer.
  • With no commute since the pandemic, I haven’t been actively listening to many podcasts lately.

Watching

I’ve been maintaining a specific Watch List of most all the television shows, films, and online videos I’ve been watching, so please see that for the most up to date version of what I’m watching right now. The shows listed below are some I have on my to watch list or expect to watch shortly. Most lists are in rough order of how much I like each particular series.

Current subscriptions: Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu/Disney+, Peacock, Britbox, AppleTV

Television

Sitcoms

• The Office (Peacock)
• Helluva Boss
• Hazbin Hotel

Dramas

• Wednesday (Netflix)
• West Wing (HBO)
• Shetland (Britbox)
• Down Cemetery Road (AppleTV)

News / Magazine

• With world events and personal catastrophes, I’m eschewing watching news lately

Sports, Miscellaneous, Variety, and Limited Run

• TBD

Movies

• Ricky Gervais: SuperNature
• Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable… (2025)
• Noelle (2019)
• Robby Hoffman: Wake Up (2025)
• Ronny Chieng: Speakeasy (2022)
• Being Eddie (2025)
• Jimmy Carr: Funny Business (2016)

Internet

• YouTube Subscriptions (I’ve been ignoring these for quite a while actually)

Last updated January 5, 2026.

This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now project.