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Updated Jan 24th, 2023 from Bronx, NY. It’s sleeting outside and I’m drinking a warm turmeric and lion’s mane milk concoction.
Life
2023’s Words of the Year: Zelda, Calm, Travel
2024’s: discipline, persistence, confidence, divinity
Personal
• working through my media backlogs
• finding a new day job
• editing a short story collection
• learning about constellations with the SkyAcademy app
• looking to move to Scranton, PA
Professional
• making my way downtown through codecademy lessons, coursera certificates, duolingo (spanish, french, italian) courses
• learning godot and android game development
• taking several writing courses to brush up on prose writing
Media
2023 Goals
Books 15/17
Movies 150/186
TV Series 7/59
Games 40/36
2024 Goals/Thus Far:
Books 25/2
Movies 150/25
TV Series 35/2
Games 40/12
Currently: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (Audiobook), Electrician Simulator (PC), The Elder Scrolls Online (PC), Red Dead Online (PC), The Pedestrian (PC), Portal Revolution (PC), Yeah! You Want “Those Games”, Right? So Here Yo Go! Now, Let’s See You Clear Them! (Switch), Alan Wake II (PS5), Lone Lobos (Podcast), THE WELL with Anson Mount and Branan Edgens (Podcast), How Long To Beat (Podcast). No TV shows on the plate right now!
Desktop
OS and Hardware: Apple MacBook Pro 13″ (2016), OMEN 30L, Win 11 (2021)
Writing/Copyediting: Samsung Galaxy 10 Tab, Android 9
Reading: Kindle 3G (Kindle Keyboard) for ebooks and pdfs, Fire Tablet for webtoons/comics
Headphones: Google PixelBuds, Avantree Headphones
Keyboards: Magic with Drop Dwarvish keycaps, Cooler Master 630
Mouse: Anker Vertical Mouse, Logitech MX3
Text Editors: Sublime Text, VSC
On the Go
Phone: Google Pixel 5a
Keyboard: GBoard
Car: Waze, SpotAngels, BlueDriver
Weather: OpenWeather via my custom KLWP setup, Dina
Services
Browser: Brave
Search: DuckDuckGo
RSS Reader: Feedly
Calendar, Planner, Task Manager: Google Calendar, SkedPal, AmazingMarvin
Journal, Notes, Recipe Manager, PKM: Obsidian
Instant Messaging: Discord, Line, Android Messages
Password Manager: Dashlane
Cloud Storage: Box
Music, Audiobooks, Podcasts: Spotify
Ebooks, Audiobooks, Media Rentals: Libby, Hoopla
Media Trackers: Lastfm, Trakt, HowLongToBeat, Storygraph