Work week 2023-05-15

Next week

Maker: I think I’ve got a couple weeks of outlining SNOWDRIFT STARLIGHT (working title) before I can pick up HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT and start the edit. So I’m focusing on that.

Manager: NA

Marketer: 2 blog posts; can be from backlog.

Last week

Work:

Inputs:

TECKLA, Steven Brust TALTOS, Steven Brust PHOENIX, Steven Brust ATHYRA, Steven Brust BATMAN: FAILSAFE, Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez, & Tomeu Morey JADE WAR, by Fonda Lee, read by Andrew Kishino BETTER CALL SAUL S6E7: Plan and Execution (FiveThirtyEight Politics) How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live (FiveThirtyEight Politics) Live From New York: It’s the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast! (If Books Could Kill) “Nudge” Part 1: A Simple Solution For Littering, Organ Donations and Climate Change (Ribbonfarm) Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) Business Musings: Go Wide or Run Away or Amazon Fail

Trying out a little retrospection, in the hopes that it’ll keep my work a little more honest and maybe provide an interesting view of what I’m putting in my head. is complete, is partially complete or in progress, is incomplete, is will not complete/DNF, is NA.

For the moment, I’m trying to include any books, comics, movies, or podcasts that I read, watched, or listened to. Newsletters and blog posts are always going to be irregular; I included two that stuck with me, and “stuck with me” is going to be the standard.

Today’s featured image is from a funeral for a snake we found in a friend’s backyard. It was torn in half lengthwise and had been mostly eaten. I do not know if we misgendered the snake, but at least I know it couldn’t possibly have cared.

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