nu-shed has arrived(!)
Current plan is that it will become my studio or, as I’m fond of saying, the place where I build shit and write shit. The Paintshop will become the home of The Collection and the pool table. Next steps: solar power. I’d love to be fully moved in and working in it by Thanksgiving. A shit-tonne of construction between now and then: I do love a project.
51/49
Convinced that, at this point, Biden has little choice but to bow out and that we've reached the last bump in this particular road. Listening this morning to Ezra Klein's interview with Tim Albert about the inner workings of the Tumor/Virus campaign on my way to my quarterly blood sacrifice clinched it: the only way to shift a campaign against an opponent who has done nothing but zero in on you is to remove yourself from the equation and throw every single one of their inner workings and preparations into tumult. My suspicion is, however, that Biden has already made his decision, and is waiting for the right time to do it. Covid (and Schiff, and Pelosi, and Schumer, and that 2/3 poll, and the money drying up) was (were) simply the proverbial straw: he was right, nothing he does will be enough; it’s too little, too late, especially when there’s only one way to change the biggest vulnerability. A damn shame – though hopefully one without an ignominious end.
Not sure which switch clicked or what happened, but, for the first time since my grandfather died in November (or longer, if I’m being honest with myself), I’m feeling something resembling an honest, visceral excitement for my creative practice and efforts.
m3 paintshop reorientation, ctd
Large monitor, gone; rising desk, gone; Kinesis keyboard, gone. All that's left is the M3 laptop, the Logitech Ergo trackball, and the Stream Deck – resting, as it should, atop a 1966 red Batman Bat-phone. Picked up one of those $100 Arzopa portable monitors though I've yet to figure out a problem which it solves – though I’m experimenting with using my iPad as a second (third?) monitor, with the M3 as the center focus. Goal here is that this space feels as little like an office as humanly possible, a feeling which I'm hoping to translate over to NuShed once it arrives and I begin the process of transforming it into my maker/writerspace. I once dreamt of owning a shed in Monte Carlo: halfway there – though I've little interest in Monte Carlo at this point, so I guess you could say I've reached the practical dream.