Fuck.

“The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that’s more pessimistic than previous modeling.” (Associated Press)

How the day is going so far

Ordered a BLT. Having not explicitly checked the boxes for “Lettuce” or “Tomato,” when I received my order I was almost incensed: “Hey, I didn’t ask for … oh, wait.” Found a stray turd in the house. Don’t know when it got there. Pretty sure I know who did it. We have a 3 year-old who doesn’t like to poop, so holistically, this is a win… but clearly concerned that this happened in secret without being obvious to me for an unknown amount of time.

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The Omni Group is 30 years old.

Jesus.

You know, I kind of think OmniFocus would look better on NeXTSTEP. (I kid, I love their software, but I think on that one front I’ve settled on Things.)

I did have the pleasure of running OmniWeb on a rescued NeXTcube … nearly a decade after the machine was made and a half decade after OmniWeb first came out.

Currently reading: Down and Out in Paradise by Charles Leerhsen 📚

I put in Lincoln in the Bardo on the back burner, and ripped through almost all of this over the weekend. I’ve got my qualms with it, but not with the idea of sandblasting the hagiography of Bourdain.

Finished reading: The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks 📚

Hell of a story, inspired by a true one. And one with over- and undertones I could identify with too.

Currently reading: The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks 📚

A hard decision made, and just the hope of a new focus (coming around the corner), regardless of the challenges, has innate interests that have been dormant for a few years sprouting signs of life.

I think I’m doing the right thing.

Appreciating, as I think I have nearly every year since it began, the “State of the World” thread on the Well, from Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky.

Kevin McCarthy’s expression when he got the gavel reminded me of my 3-year-old’s reveling when I capitulate over allowing him a too-early or too-late sweet.

Ready to head back to the woods now.