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 Updated: 26-01-2026

From my home in Charneca da Caparica, Portugal.

(This page is inspired by Derek Sivers' project, nownownow.com)

 📅 New Year Planning

In the coming year, there will be travel to the U.S.A., track days, a river cruise with family, and maybe an F1 race to go to.

  

🛫 We Can Leave the Country!

We're no longer awaiting AIMA (the immigration dept. here) to approve our residence renewal, we can stay another three years! 🥂

✅ Changing Priorities 

Since moving to Portugal thirty-plus months ago, health and fitness has been a more prevalent feature of my life. Weight training and (sometimes) cardio are top priorities, especially with all the tasty food and wine here.

Learning Português and integrating into the culture seems an unending process, but the challenges and changes are great for an aging brain like mine.

Trying to manage my time is still a mess, pen and paper, Slack, email, calendar, etc.
The problem may not be the tool on the screen, but the one between the chair and the keyboard...

 

📚 Publishing Projects

Noodling on another sci-fi short. I might wind up publishing a book of short stories if I can create enough of them. Currently working on "a woman wakes up to a disaster".

Pathfinder 2 version of the Libram of Lists (is in the final formatting stage).

Still collecting tales about kooky things that happened at work. I've over one-hundred now.

🛝 Diversions

eBook Book: Rapport, another Murderbot short, book 2.5 in the series. And I can't wait until the show returns.

 

Paperback Book: Useful Not True the second time, another excellent, thought provoking, book by Derek Sivers. 

Podcast: The Drive, Peter Attia MD's excellent podcast on medicine related to healthspan (not necessarily how long you live, which is also important, but the quality of your life). I feel smarter just for listening.

Video Game: Days Gone, the remastered version, and it's my second play-through.

🕸 Sites and Social

Urban Realms: Where my wife and I hock our wares.

 

My one article on Medium about what D&D did for me. 

 

D&D 3.5e SRD: My contribution to the community, by hosting an updated version of the site, for the best version of Dungeons and Dragons (IMHO).

Instagram: Feed of my photos (all cars), and now IG sucks so I'm looking at Pixelfed. Will post a link once I have committed to a feed.

 

Bluesky: My neglected feed, where all the cool kids are going instead of Xitter.