The heatwave finally broke and things have cooled off here. Running has gotten much more pleasant, and I’ve been able to get out on the pavement and get more runs in.

I finished reading Akira—I’ve gone through all six volumes in the last 3 weeks. I still can’t get over the incredible detail in the background design, especially the panels with drawings of buildings.

Lately, I'm thinking about time management and prioritizing things. I was thinking a lot about this before we had a kid too. For the month of August, I'm trying something new: I pick one main project and one secondary project to advance for the month (and I'll try not to start new things or get distracted from these two.

I've been playing around with using Bear as my notes app instead of Obsidian, despite it's subscription fee (I'm happy to pay a small fee monthly for good software, right now). I like having an iOS/mac native app with out of the box syncing, widgets, and a simple, effective UI/UX. I think I'll give it another month or two trial. Having my notes in two separate places isn't the plan; I'm more using Bear for things like blog posts and project notes, whereas Obsidian is more of a comprehensive personal wiki + day-log.

Other notes:

• Sleep deprivation is the new norm
• I got a lesson in sharpening knives from my pal Frank
• Squirrels have chewed through our ceiling; they haunt me at night.