I’m five pages away from finally finishing The Blood in Winter and I left it sitting on the table at home, so it’ll have to wait until this evening to be done.

Today: First in-class writing day of the semester, time to put pen to paper, at least for a short period.

Status: I like the house colder, alas I am alone in that respect, so I let the heat mellow during the day but kick on in the evening to accommodate normal heating preferences. The problem is when it does kick on, it kicks on for a while to bump up the temperature. When I’m in the office upstairs I don’t feel it I start to feel a bit sick and every single time that happens I forget that it’s just the house warming up.

Reading: I’ve read enough of Blood in Winter to say it’s a pretty good book on the beginnings of the English Civil War. Livelily written but with a huge cast of characters. The book does provide a helpful characters index but still, it’s quite a bit to keep straight.

Listening: Know Your Enemy had a good bonus episode with Matt Dinan on the issues of AI and teaching and I can’t say it truly answered the million dollar question of effectively confronting the new reality but it was nevertheless a good bus ride companion this morning.