Disquiet

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ Didn’t recall that Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) dedicated The Secret Agent to H.G. Wells (1866–1946), whom Conrad describes as “historian of the ages to come”

▰ Just got back very late Tuesday night from an overseas trip, over two weeks, and my brain is melting from jet lag. As I prepared the weekly Disquiet Junto project on Wednesday, I mentioned in the announcement note (via juntoletter.disquiet.com), which would go out automatically a few hours later, that there was “a 95% chance a typo of some magnitude will be in this week’s project’s instructions” — and there turned out to be not one but two errors, both significant. Fortunately, after 750-plus weekly projects, I can take the snafus in stride. (Also fortunately I was awake at 2:30am to address the issues.) Especially for a project like 0756, In a Flash, which may result in some of the participants’ music potentially being heard at a pair of Musikfestival Bern events (organized by musician Werner Hasler) this coming September.

▰ Back from traveling around the UK: five nights in London, five in Glasgow, four in Edinburgh. I’ll post some photos and notes as I emerge from jet lag. The first hotel had … a podcast room. I did not avail myself of it.

▰ Got up close and personal with this massive neighbor down by China Beach (that’s in San Francisco, where I live).

▰ I needed a replacement carry-on suitcase for my trip, and this one came with free embossing of the luggage tag, up to four characters, so I figured sure, why not?