Reading:

• "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

• "Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead" by Normandi Ellis

• "Binti" by Nnedi Okorafor

Watching:

• Numb3rs

• Jack Ryan

• Luther

• Leverage

• daily thunderstorm development (via convective outlook maps, weather radar, and looking out my window)

Listening to:

• Avi Kaplan

• Paul Oakenfold, Tranceport

• Backstreet Boys, DNA

Working on:

• planning and installing new landscaping in my backyard

• world-building and plot-outlining for my current writing project, a modern fantasy novel

• fixing my messed-up sleep schedule

Looking forward to:

• getting back into shape and beating my own weight-lifting records from too many years ago

Craving:

• pretzels and/or chocolate ice cream, depending on the evening

Avoiding:

• cleaning the bathroom shower tiles, because I am incapable of not being completely obsessive about getting every nook & cranny and thus it takes forever

Wishing I were:

• not experiencing August weather, or at least getting to see better thunderstorms if I have to put up with the rest of it