7jan26

It has not been a flying start to the week, but it is at least above freezing now.

Once again, I am spending too much time reading on my phone at night, and it’s frying my eyeballs so I need to get a hold of that this week. In my own defense, Minnie the cat has returned to her habit of sitting on me at night and pinning my left hand down, so I can’t work or hold a book open.

TODAY:

• The White House weighs how to acquire Greenland
• Russia sends navy to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces

OPERATIONS: Have significantly failed at worthwhile scripting this week, so today is trying to solve that noise while also working on project development, making sense of my schedule and getting a chunk of the newsletter done and also hopefully getting to the shops so I can cook the venison goulash I’ve been dreaming of. This last one seems unlikely.
STATUS: Inbox is at 109, which I really need to sort out. The day is already being fractionated – thinking about work then realising I need to order mealworms, starting the newsletter then remembering I haven’t processed accountancy documents or film project attachment terms, that sort of thing.
READING: SPIES: THE EPIC INTELLIGENCE WAR BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, Calder Walton (UK) (US+)

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