… the feeling when you have your storage unit broken into. When you have to do a restart and all your browser tabs are lost. I had a number of things saved up from the month of June which was full of a number of distracting conditions. Back aches, neck aches, the blues. A lot of work. Some travel to visit family. But actually a lot of yoga also, and I rebooted my running practice after a dormancy that has lastted most of this year and back into 2024. I started before ordering some new shoes and was reminded once they got here that if I ever have trouble with running the problem is usually that I need new shoes.

I read two articles in the New York Times Magazine, one that would recommend and one that I would not. The former is an interview with Bill Gates, conducted shortly after it was announced that the Gates Foundation will sunset earlier than originally planned, explaining what all that was about. And the latter was about diminishing academic freedom at American universities, but I think I did learn some things from it about the tenure system that I didn’t know before. I guess what that issue did have going for it was some fantastic photography of musicians in or adjacent to the Americana genre.

I also, through my support of the Prelinger Library, landed on the mailing list of the San Franciso Film Preserve, and watched a newly-restored silent film called Padlocked, which according to them had been thought to be lost. I have never been a silent film junkie, but watching this one afternoon after work, which I think took much less than an hour, I get the attraction.