This past week another heat dome covered the Midwest. This time the humidity levels were lower than the previous heat dome a couple of weeks ago, which made the heat more bearable. Unfortunately, at the same time, Michigan was covered in a thick blanket of smoke from wildfires in Minnesota and central Canada. In an odd twist, the smoke in the air made the heat inside our house a little more tolerable, as there was slightly less direct sunlight heating things up.
Reading
I finished Laura Robson’s Human Capital and pulled Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas from the shelf. I might dive in this weekend or I might read some genre fiction. Probably the fiction. My brain is mush right now.
Writing
This past week was my first back at work after an extended break, so all of my available brain power went to writing, reviewing, and debugging JavaScript. Thus not much left for creative work. The heat and smoke didn’t help things.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Music, Artificial Intelligence
Setting: Ship
Genre: Science Fiction
Listening
The Samples, “Little Silver Ring”, from their album The Last Drag. I first heard this song when I worked at CyberNet back in 1999, and it has stuck with me for these past 27 years. I am posting this in honor of a beautiful wedding Z and I attended yesterday, where we ran into an old friend and coworker I hadn’t seen in well over a decade. It was a good day.
Interesting Links
- Lindsay Graham, garbage human, dragged squealing down into the pit. – The only tragedy here is that Lindsay Graham ever existed in the first place.
- “Mediocre Racist White Men Will Never Abandon Their Racism” (The Opinionated Ogre) – No lies detected.