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 Updated: 28-09-2024

From my home in Charneca da Caparica, Portugal.

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

🏎️ Car Update and a Family Visit

I'm driving my Ford Focus RS and it's been great. Looking forward to a track day soon, just need to get it looked over by a mechanic so I don't blow anything up.

My father and brother-in-laws are visiting now! Lots of sightseeing in our future, and it's great to see them 😊

✅ Changing Priorities 

Since moving to Portugal fifteen months ago, health and fitness has been a more prevalent feature of my life. Weight training and cardio are top priorities, especially with all the tasty food and wine here, but with all the travel lately it's been a losing battle.

We added a sauna to get more sweat and Scandinavian cool 😎

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

And I'm done with KanbanFlow, it wasn't sticky enough for me. I tried just using my digital calendar, but that was a bust too. Now onto good old pen and paper.
The problem may not be the tool on the screen, but the one between the chair and the keyboard...

📚 Publishing Projects

Lovecraftian horror short story (now on the 6th draft).

Daily 5-minute journal, curated with items I think are important. Why yet another one of these and what makes my opinion worthy? Good question and who cares, even if I don't sell any I will still learn something.

Pathfinder 2 version of the Libram of Lists (still formatting and adding new content)

A collection of tales about kooky things that happened at work. I've over seventy now.

A book of "cool words" inspired by the excellent Raging Swan Press. Not sure if this will be a thing anymore, but less probable.

🛝 Diversions

Project Hail Mary, what a fun read! I'm still thinking about this one and have been recommending to my nerdy friends.

Under Alien Skies, a fun tour of the universe (well, just some of it), but the excellent Philip Plait, PhD, of Bad Astronomy. While it contains super-fun space stuff, it's also research for a hard science RPG I hope to run later this year.

Leviathan Falls, sadly the nineth Expanse audiobook. My favorite all-time Sci-Fi book series (TV was darn good too). And the narration by Jefferson Mays is topnotch.

Useful Not True, another excellent, thought provoking, book by Derek Sivers. 
I'm going to read this a second time.

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.

🕸 Sites and Social

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).

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

Instagram: Oft neglected feed of my photos (all cars).

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