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Finished MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS: Postscript might land tomorrow.

State of perpetual weariness today, quite possibly (though I'm fairly certain of the real reason - end of an era, et al) from laughing at the joke I like o tell myself that I can, after being awake since 0430, keep enough of my wits about me to do another block of useful work 14 hours later: excepting this dashed-off screed, not happening. That being said, moving to Spring /Summer working hours (read: mornings only): standard difficulty at +/-1300 from not working and the asshole in my brain using that as an in to tell me everything I'm doing is pointless. Heard this record countless times before; thankfully, its pull is much reduced. Yay pills.

My fingers hurt from Technic assembly.

Macro105 tomorrow morning.

'Night.

Interstitial Lego Technic, bag one (of four)

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• Intrigued by this / note to self to learn more: A Decade To Download Project Team – A Decade To Download | The Internet Yami-Ichi 2012 – 2021 | Neural

• Mirrored cladding helps Belgian villa "disappear" into forest | Dezeen

• Love these: Get Uncomfortable with Katerina Kamprani’s Deliberately Annoying Designs | Print Magazine

• Useful guide to the clusterfuck: Explainer: What to Know About the Ohio Train Derailment | Visual Capitalist

• Water-Activated Calligraphy Makes Shodo More Accessible | Spoon & Tamago

• Will dig more into this over the coming week. Def. prefer notion of harmony over duopoly of balance; nearer now than I've been in years: How to craft a harmonious life | Psyche Guides

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Realized, as I was fucking about not getting anywhere in block two (or either of today's blocks, really – I was too excited, first at its impending arrival, then upon its actual arrival), that, being surrounded as I am now by action figures in my Paintshop, benign midlife crisis tributes to formative years spent concocting multiple crossover adventures and other assorted tactile fanfiction shenaigans, it's practical malpractice that I haven't attempted a narrative serialized adventure in more than a decade (and the one I did I pulled because I liked it too much and wanted to do something else with it: haven't – yet): this is, however, my standard operating procedure. Will think on it (too much) more and (probably) discuss in Sunday's newsletter.

I remain transfixed. See you tomorrow.

He has arrived – as beautiful as I remember, all those years ago:

three quick notes on PICARD 3.1

• Why did the series have to wait until its final season to be THIS good?

• Assuming Seven and much of the Titan crew survives, they need their own show. The next next generation.

• Goldsmith’s FIRST CONTACT theme is the most beautiful thing he wrote for TREK and hearing it again gave me chills.

“When Alvin Visited The Wreck of the Titanic”

Eighty minutes of beautiful, robot-filmed unreleased footage from one of the first dives after the discovery of the Titanic, in 1986. Transfixed.