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
  • Finishing up clean up of the garage
  • Insurance paperwork
• Concern for my brother’s ongoing cancer diagnosis: fuck cancer
• Searching for something interesting as my next major undertaking
• Thinking and writing a lot about typewriters

To Do Lists

Learning

• Hilbert Spaces and functional analysis
• The Olmecs: Mesoamerica’s Mysterious First Civilization by Dr. Edwin Barnhart
• Understanding the Old Testament by Robert D. Miller II

Events

• Nothing upcoming

Reading

• The Notebook by Roland Allen (2023)
• Who Owns the Future by Jaron Lanier (2013)

For up-to-the-day updates on what I’m reading, see my reading updates, or, if you prefer, the syndicated copies I send to GoodReads.com. I now also post online articles I’ve been reading lately too.

Listening

• Streaming & Radio
  • Gil Scott Heron, Art Blakey, Irish Folk Balads, Sean nos
• Audiobooks
  • The Notebook by Roland Allen (2023)
  • Who Owns the Future by Jaron Lanier (2013)
• 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

Television

Sitcoms

• Wednesday (Netflix), Season 1 (rewatch) & Season 2 (first 4 episodes
• Fisk (Netflix), Season 3
• Leanne (Netflix), Season 1

Dramas

• Untamed (Netflix), Season 1 E1-3
• Sullivan’s Crossing (Netflix), Season 1 (meh…)

News / Magazine

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

Sports, Miscellaneous, Variety, and Limited Run

• College football has started!

Episodes in parenthesis indicate the next unwatched episode on my list.

Movies

• Jimmy Carr: His Dark Material (2021)
• Desk Set (1957)
• Bell, Book & Candle (1958)
• Nobody (2021)
• The Great Outdoors (1988)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• The Greatest Showman (2017)
• Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel (2025)
• Becoming Katharine Graham (2025)
• Justin Willman: Magic Lover (2025)
• The Departed (2006)
• Nobody (2021) poster
• Salt (2010)
• The Bone Collector (1999)
• No Way Out (1987)

Internet

• YouTube Subscriptions (I’ve been ignoring these for quite a while actually)
  • Joe Van Cleave’s channel

Last updated August 30, 2025.

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