Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year

This is coming later than I’d like, but I was pretty slammed with work Monday and Tuesday. Usually, Monday is my busy day. I strictly avoid working on the weekend, and avoid looking at work emails too, so Monday is when I respond to everyone’s weekend emails. Plus

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading

This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week. Anyway … Book I read: Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer: If you know me but at all, you’ll know that I’m addicted to copy-editing books – i.e. opinion

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 1: Updates

As mentioned, there was no newsletter last week, since I was in Goa with some friends, and as much as I love you folks on the Internet, I had no desire to hole up in the Airbnb and type while my friends were out having fun. It was a good

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 24: The Mystery Gods

After the eventful weather of last week, it’s been pleasant to have a week with not much incident. I had to stay home last weekend because of the weather, so I wrapped up my work for the week on Wednesday to spend time with K. Work-wise, it’s been

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 23: Strive to Fail

It’s been an interesting week here in India. For one, Pune has been bombarded by torrential rains all of last week, which is usual after a cyclone hits the east coast of India, as Remal did at the end of May. Things came to a head on Saturday, when

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 22: Things and Places

It’s been a nice week at Casa Bidikar. I’ve finally started working out regularly again. I’d been waiting for my various chronic pains to recede enough, and I’d got myself a gym membership at the beginning of the month, but it took a while to find

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 21: Good Weather

After a very hot first half of the month, May has settled into surprisingly pleasant weather here in Pune – I don’t know if I can fully trust this weather, since our “summer” has had two weeks of daily rain. We might be about to have a strange mixed monsoon/

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness

The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me. To start, here are some definitions from the book: It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 3

(This continues from Part 1 and Part 2.) After a lot of preamble, let’s get to it. When we read the Krakoa era of X-Men, what are we supposed to be reading? Sidenote: I won’t tell you exactly how long it took me to figure out what to

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation

It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well. Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’m