Actually a little humid out there today. More rain coming, but this morning felt a little like spring. And, lo and behold, a few tiny flowers. I’ll be clearing a day or two next week to attack the garden again. I was assuming winter would continue until July again this year, so I dropped several hundred pounds last month on some more winter clothes. Today I took delivery of a summer-weight linen shirt with two chore-style patch pockets, which means it will snow next week.
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OPERATIONS: One of the people I work with is calling it “goblin mode.” Probably a hundred pages passed through my machine this week, and I still have two huge art dumps and a screenplay to review. I read a long New Yorker profile on Hans Ulrich Obrist last night (that’s just gone behind a paywall when I went to find it again) that connected up some of the things that have been bothering me over the last couple of days.
STATUS: Walked four miles the other day. I need to put in about a mile today to continue breaking in a new pair of &SONS Drover Boots. That Calvin Klein blazer I bought a few years ago finally fits well. The change of weather means I’m thinking about clothes again. I have reached the age where I have had to take the scarf.
READING: THE NOTEBOOK, Roland Allen (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Late Junction
THINKING ABOUT:
The Romans, when they eventually succeeded the Bronze Age and Hellenic civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean, adopted small Ulu Burun-style tablets, which they called pugillares or ‘handhelds’. They made them more capacious, either by making the leaves larger (and calling the results tabellae) or adding more leaves: tablets with three (and therefore four, not two, faces to write on) became common, and one survivor from Pompeii has eight.
THE NOTEBOOK, Roland Allen
The handheld!
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