That is an important one and I’ll expand on it slightly…I spend probably 80% of my time either sleeping, sitting in front of the computer, or out walking around. Consequentially, the most comfortable and expensive things I own are my mattress, my office chair, and my shoes. Spend your money where it matters.
That is an excellent book, and I agree with you about how hard the third act hits. If you’re interested, she has a couple other novels in the same setting (time-traveling historians): To Say Nothing of the Dog, a much more light-hearted Victorian-era farce that overlaps with events from the real-life novel Three Men in a Boat which is itself a good and funny read, and the two-parter Blackout and All Clear, neither of which I have read but are on my list to get around to someday.
Yeah, I would recommend it. My biggest takeaways from it so far have been understanding how many of my habits and personality quirks are actually coping strategies that I just didn’t realize. Like, I always thought I just happened to like chewing gum all the time because I enjoyed the minty flavor. Turns out the repetitive chewing motion can actually stimulate the dopamine I crave. I thought everyone has a collection of rhyming phrases or little songs that they only say in private and we all collectively pretend like we don’t because it’s embarrassing. Turns out that’s verbal or auditory stimming. It’s been great in that regard, helping me understand why I am the way I am.
Can’t really speak to how effective any of the ADHD management techniques in the book are since I’m still working through it and trying to take things onboard, but the author also has a very popular and successful Youtube channel where you can probably find all the same information and more if you’re interested.
I’ll take “Books that made me sob like a baby” for $500, Alex.
Strange to call it a “all-new espionage thriller” when it’s a remake.
Two good movies my wife and I saw in the last year and we were pretty much the only ones in the theater:
The Last Stop in Yuma County, a tense indie crime movie set almost entirely in an isolated gas station diner. Loads of, “Hey, that’s that guy from that thing…” actors in it.
Outlaw Johnny Black, a comedic Western produced, directed, written by, and starring Michael Jai White as a revenge-obsessed outlaw who has to pose as the town’s new preacher.
Many is the time I’ve gotten halfway through typing a response only to lose interest in my own opinion.
I just want the game to be good. There will be plenty of Rule 34 material on the companions available later.
It was a frozen yogurt company. The ice cream was a ruse to smoke out those not committed to the cause.
Ooo, what kind of boat?
What, Netanyahu cynically making political moves for his own gain and damn the consequences, stop, that’s crazy man, you’re blowing my mind, dude.
“I found out my wife voted for Kamala behind my back, that’s a mistake that needs to be fixed.”
Just got back from voting, no wait. It’s about a 10 minute walk from my house to the polling place. They had 3 lanes open for people to check in, only 1 was occupied. I was in and out in under 5 minutes. Longest I’ve ever had to wait was probably 45-60 minutes in 2016 but that was at a different polling place that was always poorly organized.
Just got back from voting and I was looking for an opportunity to mention how attractive the lady that checked me in was.
sHaLL NoT bE InFrinGeD!!!
Obviously.
I keep having dreams of things I need to do
And waking up but not following through
But it feels like I haven’t slept at all
When I wake to a silence and she’s facing the wall
Posters of Dylan and of Hemingway
An antique compass for a sailor’s escape
She says, “You just can’t live this way”
And I close my eyes and I never say
I’m still having dreams