The Now Page was invented by Derek Sivers in 2021. It’s a page on your website that tells people what you’re doing right now — what you’re working on, what you’re working towards, what you’re looking forward to, and what you’re enjoying.

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Now

Last updated on Saturday 23 November 2024.

Limping towards the end of the year, but less than two weeks of term before the summer holiday begins.

Life

2023 was the Year of Sleep for me: I averaged 7 hours and 18 minutes per night and I felt unstoppable. This year it’s been 40 minutes less than that; this week it’s been 90 minutes less. Work is mostly to blame, I think. Once the holiday starts, I have to try and get it back on track.

School

Five teaching days to go, then three days of camp, then Speech Day. There are some exciting new things happening at School next year, but first I’m concentrating on surviving this term.

Podcasting

I’m still enjoying Untitled Star Trek Project, which gives me a weekly opportunity to watch and think about a Star Trek episode, and, more importantly, a weekly opportunity to spend time with Joe.

Flight Through Entirety is nearing the end of our Series 10 coverage, with the release tomorrow of our episode on World Enough and Time. And tomorrow we’re also recording our episode on Twice upon a Time. After that, we will have four more episodes of Flight Through Entirety to release and one more episode to record before we go on hiatus for a few years, switching our attention to our new-ish Doctor Who podcast 500 Year Diary, whose second season we will be recording at the start of 2025.

Maximum Power is nearing the end of its recording run as well. Our Series 4 coverage will start on 21 December with Rescue, which I will be editing.

Websites

I think I’m probably just a couple of days’ work away from completing the first version of the eleventy-plugin-podcaster plugin, which is designed to help people who want to use Eleventy to make a podcasting website. I’ve set myself a Christmas deadline for it, so that The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire is using it when our next episode is released a couple of days after Christmas Day.

What I’m enjoying

I had fun playing Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, which I finished a week or two ago. And I enjoyed watching Series 4 of Only Murders in the Building. But I haven’t had much time for anything else. I have a big list of TV Shows to watch these holidays; quite a lot of them are Star Trek.