This is an earlier version of my Now page. Read on if you want to see what I was up to on Wednesday, 19 April 2023. If you want to see what I’m up to now, check out the current version.
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.
If you want to know more about who I am and what I do generally, take a look at my About page.
Then
Published on Wednesday, 19 April 2023.
I’m writing this in Bangkok, just a couple of days before I return home from two and a half months’ abroad during my long service leave. I’m feeling well rested and well travelled, and I’m looking forward to coming home and seeing the dogs again.
Life
We had two Covid lockdowns in Sydney, one in 2020 and another in 2021. Each time I put on about ten kilograms, and I’m yet to shake any of that lockdown weight. I know how to get rid of it, I think, but for the time being, I’m concentrating on two resolutions:
- I will hit all three Activity Goals on my Apple Watch every day.
- I will walk 5000 steps every morning before breakfast.
School
I missed Term I because of long service leave, so for me it’s the start of a new year, my thirtieth year at Sydney Grammar School. There’s going to be a lot to do, but there’s three main things I’ll be focusing on:
- I’ll be teaching a completely new Year 8 Latin course based on Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata alongside some of my colleagues in the Classics Department.
- I won’t be teaching Year 12 Studies of Religion this term, but I will be creating new resources on the topic of Buddhist Pilgrimage, based on what I learned during my travel to the Buddhist Pilgrimage sites in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
- I will be assisting my colleagues with the move to Canvas, which was completed at the start of this year. And I will be making the move myself, which will give me the chance to rethink and revise my online teaching resources.
Podcasting
Last Sunday, I released Flight Through Entirety’s first episode on Doctor Who’s 2014 season, which was the first season with Peter Capaldi as the Doctor. I’ll be releasing new episodes every Sunday for the next 12 weeks, and I’ll be recording six of those episodes over the next four weeks or so.
Untitled Star Trek Project will be back very soon, and I’m looking forward to hanging out with Joe Ford, watching Star Trek and having a laugh. We recorded an episode together in person in early February, but we haven’t done anything since then, and I’ve really been missing it. It’s gonna be fun.
Maximum Power is recording its episodes on Blake’s 7 Series C from May onwards, and I’ll be appearing on a few of those. I’m particularly excited about recording with some of people I met in person for the first time in February.
Websites
All my websites are now made with Eleventy, which has rekindled my love for creating for the web again. In fact, I moved this site from WordPress to Eleventy in January, and I’m keen to use it as a playground for learning and experimentation. And in the medium term, I’ve got a few ideas about how I can contribute to the Eleventy community. There’s at least one or two articles I want to write, but I’ve also got some more ambitious plans, based on my experiences using Eleventy to create podcasting websites.
What I’m enjoying
I’m enjoying the current era of Star Trek, including all the new series currently in production. Star Trek: Picard’s third season has blown way past my expectations, and I can’t wait to see how it ends tomorrow. And later this year there’s Series 4 of Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds. It’s a new Star Trek golden age.