March 2025 Check-In
March was a mostly quiet month.
Cory Doctorow
I read a lot of Cory Doctorow. Both his books and his blog. I appreciate his writing and was able to catch him when he stopped by The Doylestown Bookshop. It was an interesting event to hear his thoughts on the current political climate and antitrust, as well as the Internet Archive and Wikipedia.
Tess in a Routine
We’ve had Tess now for two and a half months. We’re getting her into a good routine and she seems to be better adjusting to her new home. It’s caused me to be walking a lot more as we’ve been trying to get her out on 3 walks a day. They’re not always long, but we’re trying to help her burn off some of that puppy energy. She’s walking a lot better now too.
Writing More
The weather has been turning to spring lately and I’ve been taking advantage of that by sitting out on the porch in the evenings. I’ve been spending that time writing more and have made some more progress on my novel as well as some blog posts.
Running
For the last several years, I’ve been trying and failing to start running distance again. I’ve been taking advantage of the nice weather to hopefully start running more and work up to longer runs. I was able to hit a little over 8 miles at the end of the month so hopefully I can keep it up and the weather will cooperate.
Monthly Round-Up
🏃🏼♂️ Fitness
- Running: 15 runs - 64.04 miles
- Walking: 30 walks - 51.73 miles
- Lifting: 4 sessions - 87,484 lbs.
📚 Reading
- Finished The Splending and the Vile by Erik Larson
- Finished When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
- Finished Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow
- Finished Madoff by Richard Behar
- Finished Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
- Finished Character Limit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac
- Started Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
- Started Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie
✍🏻 Writing
Reading Logs
Week Notes
Blogging
- Wrote about movie and TV adaptations of books and video games
- Shared Ethan Marcotte's decision to leave 18F
- Shared a new proposal for custom CSS functions
- Wrote about my still off social media
- Wrote about the five years since the start of the pandemic
- Wrote about data models and tech debt
- Wrote about the satisfaction of completing home projects
- Wrote about always hoping for a good baseball season from the Phillies
🎮 Gaming
- Playing WoW: Classic