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I put together a new cat tower today. It's an even split between cats investigating the new tower and cats investigating the now-empty box the tower came in.

I pulled out my giant doily to get more work done on it. Someone else had other plans.

Today, I discovered that my smart watch counts petting cats as activity.

Put a pause on reading 1984 because it's just a little too close to reality right now and I really want some escapism. For that, I'm turning to The Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers, staring the "The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet." I picked up the whole series in paperback this week. I LOVE her Monk & Robot series - they're on my constant reread list already!

Learning python is a test in patience.

After cleaning up the empty columns in my Google Fit data from the last 9 years, and doing some pretty basic data analysis of it with python focused mostly around step counts - low, high, and median - I now know my yearly median daily step count, that it dropped in half in 2024 (one guess why 🤣🚚 🚲 🚑 🏥 ), and that while I still haven't recovered my pre-2024 step count median trend, it *is* still trending upward, and I have REALISTIC daily step count goals to work with! Tomorrow, I'm going to figure out how to turn that data into a basic visual dashboard where I can show past trends, project into the future based on goals, and then every two months when I get a new data backup, I can compare goals with reality, and adjust accordingly.

The neighbor is having some trees in their yard taken down today. And every time the machinery gets noisy in a new way, the cats huddle around me. I'm not sure if they think they're protecting me or if they think I'm protecting them.

#26BooksIn2026 Update I am a wee bit behind on my reading schedule, but I'm about to go on a spree to catch it up. I'm about 1/2 through 1984, then after that, I'm reading Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (a comedy space opera that includes psychic cats), then following that up with Julia by Sandra Newman (a retelling of 1984 through a feminist lens using Julia's perspective), and then after that, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (first in a series, and I bought physical copies of the whole five-book Wayfarer series which came today because I ADORE Becky Chambers Monk & Robot series, so I want to read her other stuff, too.) So that's eight books I've got ready to go as soon as I finish 1984. Oh, make that nine. I'm gonna tackle Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins after I finish the first book in the Becky Chambers Wayfarer series 🤣 Flip-flopping between dystopian critiques of political and social conditions to solarpunk and hopecore scifi cuz balance is a necessity.

The correct thread to finish my giant doily came today! I can finally watch lectures again! *Yay ADHD which connects these two activities in my brain 🤣

What do you do *besides* scroll on social media? What have you been up to lately?

Now going through the tedious process of logging into every app on my new phone.

Me: *Vows not to argue on the internet for a year*. My tendency to argue on the internet: *Starts its own personal extinction burst.* It's a practice and sometimes we stumble during practice 🤣 Social media is a *terrible* place to argue unless you're doing it for dopamine, then it's a *great* place to do it. Which is why it's a practice of discipline not to do it. Now to decide on my "punishment" 😈 Cuz I'm a bit of a masochist...

I assume every platform whose app we have on our devices is listening to everything we say. I'm reading 1984 and it's highlighting how important it is that we keep some of our thoughts on paper.

Had my first experience with dispensary delivery today, and it was a delight. Online ordering, driver was a sweetheart, I tipped him quite well, and now I've got oodles of the good green to get blazed and unhinged today.

I do not take action based on how I feel. I take action based on the outcome I desire. Sometimes, those things line up. Often, they don't.