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Sharp turn to the cold today, rain and wind and single-digit temperatures. I got nothing done out here at the weekend because I was just too damn tired, so now I have to wait for the cold snap to pass. Always waiting for something. But I have a couple of weeks before I absolutely have to put seeds in the ground, so it should be okay.

Newsletter went out yesterday.

OPERATIONS: I am in the same two documents all week. One should be done by EOD Friday, the other will be half-done because it’s longer and more complex.
COMMS: Inbox 92, because I just haven’t been bothered. I’m getting smacked away by a cat while it’s still dark, and then getting smacked awake again when the little bastard decides he’s waited too long for his breakfast.
LISTENING:

READING: finishing VITA CONTEMPLATIVA, which seems to have morphed into a “internet bad/ Heidegger good/ Arendt bad” round of peculiar axe-grinding. I picked this book as a place to start with Byung-Chul Han, and it may be the place I finish. I’m starting to wonder if he doesn’t have that Zizek thing going on, where every book starts out notionally as being something different from the last, then there’s a decent joke, then it’s the same old slightly cokey blast about the same old things. There’s good and useful stuff in there, but the rot sets in around “The heart is the organ of remembrance and memory, and in the digital age we are without heart.”

LAST WATCHED: sampled episodes of THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM, BEACON 23
ORBITAL:

• nice piece on the excellent Vladimir Sorokin
• Cate Blanchett in Guy Maddin’s new film
• The Nordic Kitchen is back with a garden plan

SHIPPING FORECAST: I actually took a little time this weekend to schedule the posting of some of my notes so that they didn’t all pile up.