We swapped our gas furnace and water heater for electric! We reserved our furnace back in August, and our old heater was turning off three or four times a day, so we were ready to make the swap. Now we have a heat pump with one head and electrical furnace, plus a tank electric water heater. (We asked multiple times about tankless and they recommended against it 🤷♀️) So we get to cancel our natural gas connection!!! 🙌
Stuff I did:
- Got the house ready for contractor work
- Revisited my outline, using notecards to rearrange scenes by hand, then Excel — spent nine and a quarter hours on writing thinking
- Did 10 hours of consulting work
- Published my 2022 in music, which I wrote much earlier in the month and forgot to post
- Published my 2022 Annual Review, which I simplified and shortened from past years
Reading:
I’m trying to quit books earlier if they’re not grabbing me — I have 800 books on my TBR list so I ain’t got time to fuck around with stuff that’s not for me. But I have a harder time quitting novellas, since they’re a shorter time investment. I should probably work on that because I wound up reading two novellas I didn’t especially like this week.
Between quitting more books and being tired all the time, I finished reading way fewer books in January than usual. We’ll see how I like this approach long-term.
- Read three sci-fi romance novellas from an anthology, one decent, the other two not for me
- DNF’d The Red Scholar’s Wake and A Restless Truth
- Pre-ordered No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy (August) and The World Behind the World by Eric Hoel (July) on the basis of enjoying both their newsletters
- Added 4 books to my TBR
Words I looked up / concepts I learned:
Neat stuff I learned:
- Swords were made from bog iron back in the day (via)
- Back in the day, people let their fried food drip excess oil onto bread (via)
New feeds I’m trying out:
- One Man and His Blog by Adam Tinworth
- Monday Monday by marlee grace
- Welcome to Garbagetown by Cat Valente
- Letters from a Learn-It-All by Jen Vermet
- the dream machine by Jackie Luo
- kyla’s newsletter by kyla scanlon
- Lucid by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
I’m still exploring what makes sense / is interesting to collect in these weeknotes. Added a couple new sections this week.
