Just watched Norway - Czechia (3:6) mixed doubles curling (round robin) - I’ve come to a greater appreciation of the sport after watching a video on the subject by Cleo Abram: Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists


Champi in the new pet bed

A white cat with brown flecks lying in a white fluffy cat bed facing the camera directly

Tonight’s Olympics after an evening of coffee and a real walk downtown on paths of cleared or melted snow: team figure skating, men’s single luge, men’s downhill skiing, men’s snowboard big air on Sportschau


Have to remind myself about the Olympics games - watched curling mixed doubles then speed skating women’s 3000m


Just caught up with the thousands of backlogged RSS posts in my feed reader until this moment, simply setting many as read in bulk, yet actually reading many more in full - phew!


My delight when I got up after a nap, the cats together on the couch

A tabby brown cat lies in front of a white cat with brown flecks on the top of a grey cushioned couch in a white room by daylight

Watching the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony 🇮🇹


Finished watching Big Mouth 📺


Searched for books of creative exercises or prompts the other day to help me get into the habit of daily writing, but I need look no further than my own old story ideas, journals, and commonplace notebooks - so many unexplored thoughts stored within, I could work for years on texts based on them…


I’ve imported all of my old, old transcribed ideas and notes which were just sitting on iCloud as txt files after I copied them over from a backup drive - I didn’t know how to deal with them on the iPad until now (that alone might be worth the full version of Ulysses app…)


Watched: The Ballad of Wallis Island - on histories, collaboration, and creativity 🍿


Exploring the Ulysses writing app, going to test it out on all my devices as much as possible for the trial week


Did some reading in the pink Poäng chair, then watched Hertha - Darmstadt (2:2 - Berlin’s 5th tie in a row) in the background on the couch as I caught up with RSS feeds and open browser tabs


Café, some shopping, and a longer walk in the mall - glad Alexanderplatz has relatively well cleared off paths


Trying out Awake app (via No More Snoozing Alarms) hoping its “missions” will help me get up better, quicker - multiple alarms every morning have been failing most days for a long time now… Also trying out their main app, Structured - I haven’t yet found the right todo app - will this be the one?…


Watched: Before Midnight 🍿


Documenting the sidewalk sea of ice in the neighborhood on my way home

The stone sidewalk surface is covered in a sheet of ice, with a cold, wintry appearance.

Watched: Before Sunset (a month after watching Before Sunrise) 🍿


Managed to get to the library to renew my overdue books today, but realized there are yet more newly overdue needing attention…


Watched: The Phoenician Scheme 🍿