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COVID-19 ⚛️

  • Still quarantined at home and grateful that I have the temperament to enjoy it

Podcast 🎙️

  • “Trigger Point FM” is still on hiatus although Peter will reconsider recording remotely if we’re still in quarantine by the 14th…

Games 🎲

  • I’m walking more, courtesy of Catan: World Explorer, the latest Niantic game (you know, Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Wizards Unite)
  • I’ve recently discovered Picross and so am now playing Two Eyes
  • Just finished playing Thousand Year Old Vampire (the solo RPG) with a group – write-up coming soon
  • Nile Online, Pathfinder and Seattle by Night are still games I’m playing regularly

Analogue stuff ✍️

  • My Galen Leather A5 Zip Folio has arrived, so I’m carrying that everywhere with me
  • That Amy Tangerine class I talked about before? It was terrible, don’t take it.

iOS 👩🏻‍💻

What I am watching 📺

  • a lot of Twitch music streamers
  • Supernatural – Season 15 – I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
  • Cobra Kai – I didn’t think I would like it, but it’s not too bad
  • The Boys – Season 2 – I don’t know if I can continue watching this. There was a particular scene involving a whale and a speedboat that really put me off. Maybe it’s the current world-climate we’re in now, but I don’t have as much leniency towards scenes which serves no purpose but to shock the audience.

Recently finished:

  • Batwoman – I love Ruby Rose and am sad to read that she’s not returning for season 2. And I want all of Rachel Skarsten’s coats in the show!
  • Enola Holmes – it’s more action-packed than intellectually stimulating, but still good

This page is inspired by Derek Sivers.

I recently discovered a number of pretty cool music Twitch streamers – they’re great to listen to while working from home. 🎵

  • Lara – video game music on piano
  • Mike Choi – jazz version of video game music
  • Jonathan Ong – glorious symphonic cacophy (his words)

::silent screaming:: It’s arrived!!

It may be empty now, but I’m stuffing it full of notebooks and pens as we speak!

Fellow journalers/planners, do you use digital or analogue tools? If you use both, how and when do you use which?
I’m trying to justify when to use my fountain pens and when to use Day One.

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As a stationery snob, I admit to caring a lot (maybe too much) about the pens and papers I use.
So it would come as no surprise that news of Tomoegawa using a new machine for manufacturing their Tomoe River paper is causing me no small amount of concern.

It does not help matters that reviews show that things I love about the TR paper – paper thinness, ink shading, ink haloing and ghosting (I love ghosting!) – are all supposedly worse in the new paper.

I am now wondering to what extent I would go to to get my hands on some of the new stuff so I can test it out for myself.

It might result in me buying a lot of notebooks now in an attempt to stave off the inevitable.

Oh, first world problems…

I’ve been seeing people posting up their 2021 Hobonichi covers, so I thought I’d join in the fun.
I didn’t think I’d buy another one, since the one-page-a-day layout wasn’t really working out for me, but then they came out with the A5 notebook and the day-free hobo…
It’s testing my self-control to not start using them right now.