What I’m Doing Now
Updated May 7, 2025
I’ve been my Mom’s caregiver since 2017. Mom’s 100+. She broke her hip in 2020, and since then, taking care of her has of necessity been my primary activity.
Projects
- I’m still trying to blog about technology at IT:, and Celtic and Medieval Studies at DigitalMedievalist.com. Sadly, the updating of late is mostly repairing link rot, and lost images.
- I am heartily disheartened by Apple. I explain some of the reasons why in this post.
- I have been posting at Something Downeast (about life in Maine). We have both Forsythia, and Azaleas blooming, and I saw the first Ruby-throated hummingbird of the year.
My primary project since January of 2025 has been converting sites from the bloat and Gutenberg annoyances of WordPress to static sites or to newer, simpler platforms.
- I am slowly moving Something Pacific to Posthaven.com.
- I've started preparations for moving my last two WordPress.org sites to Ghost; checking images in particular. The sites are better than twenty yeas old, so there's a lot to check.
I began a new static hand-coded site about Chaucer. I’m adding extant content to it as I have time. It is currently a local only site. Mulling over whether to use a platform/service, or go with hand-coded.
In 2020 I began researching a possible new book about writing. I drafted most of it in 2021, and I am side-eying it and working on it as I can.
Technology Changes
I purchased an air conditioner that uses induction, and supports Matter. Now to get it installed.
Last Super Book I Read
Roland Allen. The History of the Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper.
Roland Allen has a Website .
Roland Allen’s The History of the Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper is the best book I read in 2024. I reccomend this podcast episode featuring Roland Allen on the Erasables podcast. Erasables Episode 217: Posh Blond English Protagonist (with author Roland Allen).
Current Reading
So far nothing I’ve read in 2025 has really stood out. That said, I am reading Terry Pratchett for the first time and quite enjoying it.
Last Album I Loved
Keel Road. Danish String Quartet, 2025.
Current Obsessive Passions
Stationery, still, particularly notebooks, fountain pens and ink, and both woodcase and mechanical pencils. Current favorites:
- Woodcase Pencil: While I still love theMusgrave Tennessee Red, I’m currently using my other Favorite Pencil, the Mitsubishi 9852EW HB Master Writing pencil. Yes, I have a preference for natural wood pencils.
- Mechanical Pencil: The Mitsubishi Pure Malt, running slightly ahead of the very similar Pilot Legno.
- I have newly acquired a Lamy CP1 fountain pen in black with a Fine nib. I like it very, very much. I bought it as a pen that will fit in various notebook pen-loops.
- Fountain Pen: Lamy 2000 F with Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-kai. I have as of 3/23/20s5 also inked a Pilot Custom 74 in Teal with Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-ryoku.
- Paper: Writepads Their paper works with both F & M fountain pens, and with pencil. I’ve also been using this EMSHOI A4 Spiral Notebook College Ruled , 11.2" X 8.27", 150 Sheets/300 Pages, 100 gsm Thick Lined Journal for disposable notes and rough drafts.