Current goings-on

• We have been in a sort of drought this last month, with only about a quarter the amount of precipitation as the average. I have been spending the last ten days making the wild flowers I set over the bare soil left by the tree removal were watered three times a day. They have just begun to sprout so I’m hoping they will help hold the spoil this winter.
• My most recent month of publications is longer than usual this month not from an excessive amount of work on my part but just a fluctuation in the results. As far as I can tell this month will probably go back to the ordinary level.
• I put on a new set of strings on my violin and it sounds so much better, exceeding my expectations. I have no idea how old the previous set was, because it came with the instrument itself, which had been languishing in a closet for a very long time. The new strings are much less prone to squeal, and have a nice singing tone I didn’t think possible coming from an instrument without a pedigree.

Presently reading

• Of the Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau (audiobook)
• Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes (audiobook)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (audiobook)
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
• A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

Last updated at Sunday, 1 October 2024 09:14:52 -0400