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Breakfast, fresh from the chickens’ bums. Temperature has dropped hard, but it’s still bright.

Newsletter is out, and much longer than I intended it to be.

OPERATIONS: Not much, today. Tiredness came down like a hammer yesterday. So today I am marking up the boards, roughing out a schedule for the next six weeks and clearing the decks for a fresh start tomorrow.

COMMS: Inbox 79 – a lot of work-related stuff sitting in there for easy access right now. Give me an hour before I start looking at messaging apps.
LISTENING: right now, The New Music Show
READING: VITA CONTEMPLATIVA, which is annoying me in its middle sections. “Waiting without intention” is against the definition of the word “wait,” and the heart is not the organ of remembrance. I suspect a slightly troubled translation.
LAST WATCHED: OPPENHEIMER, finally.
OUTSIDE:

• Like everyone else, keeping an eye on the Iran-Israel thing
• Roman wine tasted better than we thought. I don’t like to think about this, because my partner has been off alcohol all year due to medical treatments, and therefore so am I, and I am dying for a glass of red.
• hundreds of new marine species discovered between Chile and Rapa Nui.

The apple blossom in the garden continues to be a morning joy.