This is an earlier version of my Now page. Read on if you want to see what I was up to on Tuesday, 29 August 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 Tuesday, 29 August 2023.

Somehow the end of term is in sight. Year 11 exams are underway, and Year 12 are approaching their last day of school in just a couple of weeks.

Life

Finally, I’ve got off my arse and I’m starting to get more active. My goal: to close all three rings in my Apple Watch’s Activity app every day. And that’s what I’m doing. I’ve even managed to do it on the weekend by going on long podcast-listening walks and doing the occasional Fitness+ bike workout.

It’s a start.

School

My Year 12 classes in Latin Extension and Studies of Religion are nearing their end. I’m teaching the Studies of Religion boys about Buddhist pilgrimage right now, which is bringing back a lot of happy memories of my trip earlier this year.

Podcasting

We’ve recorded five episodes of the Series 9 season of Flight Through Entirety, and we’ll be releasing our first episode, on The Magician’s Apprentice on 17 September. Time to start the publicity campaign.

Untitled Star Trek Project continues unabated. Joe and I just finished recording an episode from 1968 called Assignment: Earth, which will be out this Friday. We have very nearly covered 10% of the 894 Star Trek episodes that have been broadcast to date.

Websites

Still working on my top-secret website project, which has (of course) proved to be trickier than I expected. Now that I’ve nearly finished my second run through Tears of the Kingdom, and now that my holidays are coming up, I’m going to start spending more time on it.

What I’m enjoying

I’m watching the second series of Heartstopper, which is just adorable. The kids are all terribly sweet, and nothing very disastrous happens to any of them, and so I’m absolutely on board. Many, many extra points for having Olivia Colman as Nick’s mother Sarah.

And Star Trek: Lower Decks Series 4 starts next week.