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I read some books in April! Okay, so most of Wind and Truth was in March.
I read some books in March!
I read some books in February!
📚 I read some books in January!
📚 I read 94 books in 2024. The total count has been trending downward for the past couple years. Like the previous year though, I did read a number of longer than usual books.
I started the year with a fun challenge of reading 26 books whose titles start with A-Z. This had the effect of slowing things down a bit. Since I wanted to finish them in alphabetical order, I only read one book at a time from start to finish. Normally I have a few going at once that I read or listen to in different contexts.
Here’s the complete 2024 list:
🚐 Camping in 2024
I spent the first half of 2024 dealing with a foot injury that kept me from running races, so even less travel than 2023. Maybe we can reverse that trend in 2025.
📷 Photo of the Day 2024
Year 16 complete. I did take photos on 365 days in 2024. Unfortunately, it was a leap year and I missed a day.
📚 I read some books in December!
📷 Needles
Spatial photo test
Hey Siri, play playlist “Run 2”.
Instead of your most frequently played playlist named “Run 2”, which is full of your purchased music, and which you listen to all the time, and which is cached locally on this Apple Watch… I’m going to download a random song named “Run 2”, which you’ve never listened to, and which is performed by a group you’ve never heard of.
Maybe I shouldn’t have started testing iOS “Sound Recognition” with “Siren” enabled right before watching 🎬 Die Hard.
📚 I read some books in November!
And so I read Infinite Jest again. Then when I finished it for the second time I immediately started over at the beginning. I’m fully aware of the irony. I may have a problem.
📚 I read some books in October!
📚 I read some books in September!
Infinite Jest might just be my favorite thing I’ve ever read.
🏃♂️ First long sleeve shirt run of the season! Fall has arrived!!!
📷 Partial
🏃♂️ The Red Feather Trail Jamboree races (50 mile, 50 KM, half marathon) are this weekend! I made a video preview of the race courses. This year I’ll be running just the 50K, after doing all three last year.
Reading app screen updated for iOS 18!
📚 I read some books in August!
📚 I read some books in July!
📚 I read some books in June!
📚 I read some books in May!
I generate this list from data stored in the app Sofa. The recent major version update of this app wreaked havoc on my JSON processing script. Hopefully the file format doesn’t change again for a while now that I went through the trouble of updating my script.
I made a video of this year’s Quad Rock 50/25 mile trail races in Fort Collins:
If you have a VR headset or red/cyan glasses you can even watch it in 3D:
If you have an Apple Vision Pro you can download and view the highest quality spatial video version here.
I even created original music for the video! That was fun.
🏃♂️ I had lots of fun filming the Quad Rock 25/50 mile races today. I’ve never run 25 miles carrying a gimbal before. My shoulders and arms are wrecked.
📚 I read some books in April!
The first 26 books I read this year had titles starting with letters A-Z sequentially. This was an interesting challenge. I found books for each letter, though I must admit some of them I wasn’t very excited about (a few with good reason). Here’s a few stats that, interestingly, all contain the number 19:
After finishing, I considered making a second pass at the alphabet, and I also considered moving on to books whose titles started with numbers. In the end I decided I had too much of a backlog in my reading list, so I’m just going to start working through those books. Here are the other books I read in April: