This is an earlier version of my Now page. Read on if you want to see what I was up to on Thursday, 29 June 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.

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Then

Published on Thursday, 29 June 2023.

School holidays again already. I’m nearing the end of a relaxing trip to Melbourne, and I’m looking forward to having some time to chill and some time to organise myself for work, which starts back up in just over 2½ weeks.

Life

Still not doing as much physical activity as I should. Still seeing Matt for weight training twice a week, but I’m not always reaching my Apple Watch move goals. There’s a very obvious reason for this, but I’ll talk about it at the end of this post

School

Well, it’s holidays, like I said. Next term, I’ll focus on getting some course programmes updated for the new syllabus and the new Latin courses based on Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata.

I’ll also be taking back my Form VI Studies of Religion class, and I’ll be teaching the Buddhist Pilgrimage unit. Looking forward to this after personally experiencing so many major Buddhist pilgrimage sites during my leave in Term I.

Podcasting

Flight Through Entirety is nearing the end of its coverage of Series 8, with only two more episodes to release, not counting the 2014 Christmas Special. We’ll start recording Series 9 a few weeks after that.

Untitled Star Trek Project is still back on a weekly release schedule. Still fun to prepare for, record and edit, and the perfect excuse for regular hang time with Joe.

I’ve got two new Doctor Who podcasts in the pipeline: one starting in November and the other starting in the first half of 2024. I’ve bought the domains, but that’s all so far.

Websites

I’m working on a top-secret project right now, which gives me an opportunity to learn even more about Eleventy, and to try and implement a home page design based on CSS Grid. I’m hoping the holidays will give me a chance to make more progress on this.

What I’m enjoying

I’ve been spending a lot of time playing Tears of the Kingdom. A lot of time. I played hundreds of hours of Breath of the Wild, starting during our long lockdown in 2021. Tears of the Kingdom has made Hyrule fresh and strange again, as well as adding so much new space and so many new things to do. So much fun.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is back for Series 2. Series 1 was one of the franchise’s most accomplished and enjoyable seasons. Two episodes in, and I’m already loving the hell out of this season. Series 2, Episode 2, Ad Astra per Aspera has a claim to being one of the best episodes of all time — stunningly beautiful, astoundingly well acted, and angrily political, focusing on the eliminationist attacks on transgender people currently taking place all across the United States right now.