Updated February 10, 2025, from Endor Studios.

Projects

There are always more. Please don’t ask me for release dates or details. I’m still figuring all that out myself.

• The Shortcuts for iPhone & iPad Field Guide webinar series is almost finished. I’m getting ready to start up the Productivity Field Guide Webinar series shortly. I do a lot of webinars and find them very rewarding. Connecting with folks about the stuff I’m teaching makes all the difference.
• The Podcasts (Mac Power Users and Focused) are humming along. We haven’t had many guests lately and I’m working on that.
• I’m putting out lots of great content for MacSparky Labs. The lastest addition is a Labs Book Club. We’re doing our first book club week up this week on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book.
• In the woodshop, I finished the new bookshelf project. There is some Japanese influence on this one, and the shelf almost looks floating once it is filled with books. Ahsoka is not impressed.
• Also in the shop I’m working on random projects for the kids. Sam is a public school teacher and needed a series of shelves for her classroom. The district told her it’d take 8 months. I knocked them out over the a few hours on the past weekend. I don’t do a lot of work with sheet goods but this one called out for plywood. I don’t own a table saw but I do have a track saw set up that can do the job.
• Sarah got the rights to produce Guttenberg! The Musical at the LA fringe fest later this year. She’s busy casting and setting up space (in addition to her day job at Disney). She’s producing and directing and I’m really happy for her. She also wants me to make some rehearsal blocks for her so it looks like I’ve got one more plywood project on deck.

Waiting for Spring

I’ve got a little population of Bonsai trees that I enjoy. Among them are a few Japanese Maples. They are both currently in dormant winter mode, but I’m already seeing signs of small buds show up. I’m looking forward to seeing them get their leaves in a few months. As an aside, that chair in the background is one of my favorite places in the world to sit and read a book.

I Bought a Thing

I’ve not had a car for about 8 years now. When Sarah started driving, we gave her one of our cars, and Daisy and I started sharing one. Over the past year or so, I’ve increasingly needed a car when one is unavailable. So instead of being responsible and buying a used Toyota something or other, I leased a Rivian. I’m thinking of it as a “Dad just got two kids through college, and now he has a nice car” reward. I know it’s dumb to lease and really kind of ridiculous, but I got a surprisingly good deal, and I love it.

Current Book(s)

I’m currently reading The Notebook: A HIstory of Thinking on Paper, and finding it a nice justification for my bits of analog workflow. I also just recently finished the audio book for Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth. It was a lot of fun but also took a long time at 62 hours. I’ve got no fiction on deck currently.

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Hat tip to Derek Sivers for the idea of this “Now” page. I’m terrible at social media, but this page gives me a place to check in with the world and update you, as Derek recommends, like I would when catching up with an old friend.