2025 Reads: The Alteration by Kingsley Amis 📚

Not really reading this on Christmas Eve night… just catching up posting. 😂

Imaginative alt history, but why oh why must it be centered on testicles?

So far today I have procured breakfast, hit the gym, read a book, eaten lunch, watched a Christmas movie, done some miscellaneous chores… and it’s 3:30 pm, which means I still have 7 hours before I need to be to church for the late Christmas Eve service. May resort to caffeine. Oof.

2025 Reads: Dead Money by Jakob Kerr 📚

A very solid, twisty thriller. Recommended.

2025 Reads: On Repentance And Repair by Danya Ruttenberg 📚

Brief, clear, and profound.

Listened back to a podcast discussion I was on and realized how frequently I’m using the word “right?” as a punctuation at the end of a thought. Now that I’m aware I’m hearing it among a lot of my coworkers, too. Where did that come from? Gonna have to work to stomp it out of my speech patterns.

Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for making me aware of this: a new Sixpence None the Richer Tiny Desk Concert!

I am a couple years behind on this one, but Sufjan Stevens’ instrumental album Reflections is my favorite new discovery in a while.

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Hit Guitar Center yesterday for a cable and they had a Nord Stage 4 out to demo. What a beautiful keyboard. If anybody’s got $5500 they want to give me, I know I’d use it… 😀

Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿

Even if I hadn’t already known that Rian Johnson grew up a youth group kid, I would’ve known it after watching this. More Gospel here than in most all the churches he’s critiquing. Bless him.

#exvangelical

I got new AirPods Pro 3s last week. I love the amount of detail I’m hearing now in the music I listen to. Not sure if I just haven’t paid enough attention before or if these AirPods are that big an improvement over the 2nd gens.