{"id":862,"date":"2017-11-01T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2017-11-01T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:56:05","slug":"update-for-10292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/update-for-10292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 10\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m trying to be briefer, especially since the update is already so late.<\/p>\n<h2>Worship team<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been moved from piano to synth for at least the next few months. We have too many pianists. At first I felt like I&#8217;d been demoted, but now I see that&#8217;s not the idea, and I&#8217;m having fun with it.<\/p>\n<h2>Podcasts<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be working on a podcast! I volunteered to help with our church&#8217;s sermon feed. I&#8217;ll be editing and uploading files.<\/p>\n<h2>Life management<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>They fixed my kitchen sink on Monday. Finally I could get back to normal meals&#8211;once I got around to buying new vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>I upgraded my cell phone plan&#8211;up from 500 MB a month to 5 G, and for the same price. This will let me do projects that require the Internet when I&#8217;m sitting in my car.<\/p>\n<h2>Futurism<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Last week I met with my new futurism group on the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrofuturism\">Afrofuturism<\/a> (based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/623\/we-are-in-the-future\">this episode<\/a> of <em>This American Life<\/em>). I learned from someone in the group that Ahmed Best has a fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafrofuturistpodcast.com\/\">podcast<\/a> on the subject. He&#8217;s the actor who played Jar Jar Binks in <em>Star Wars<\/em>, and that role is actually what got him interested in futurism.<\/p>\n<p>I finished catching up on Isaac Arthur&#8217;s past episodes. The next set of videos to finish will be from the Future of Humanity Institute. But first, some audiobooks.<\/p>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I finally convinced myself to subscribe to Audible. It&#8217;ll fill in for my local libraries when the audiobooks I want aren&#8217;t easily available. Audiobook apps are hit or miss, but I was relieved to find Audible has a good one.<\/p>\n<p>For my first Audible selection, I decided to do some Halloween listening. I&#8217;ve been in the mood for something along the lines of Peter Clines&#8217; <em>14<\/em>, so I&#8217;m listening to its sidequel, <em>The Fold<\/em>. If you like sci fi horror adventure mysteries, I recommend it. The reader is good too.<\/p>\n<h2>Work<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>Freelance work has been taking up a few of my evenings. That was supposed to end Friday, but then I got an extra request, so it&#8217;s spilling over a little to this week. Then it&#8217;s time to stop procrastinating on invoices.<\/p>\n<p>Another evening was taken up by my regular job, pushing myself to finish the complicated ebook I&#8217;ve been planning for and working on the past couple of months. My deadline was Friday, but it thankfully got extended to Tuesday, so I had a little more time to fix things.<\/p>\n<h2>Project generator<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I fixed the errors Travis CI was complaining about and added a couple more external services to the generator. Now I just have the road map of features to write, and then I&#8217;ll be ready to create the first release, v0.1.0.<\/p>\n<h2>Beliefs report<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still revising the bibliology section.<\/p>\n<h2>TV<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I joined the mass binge watch of the newly released <em>Stranger Things 2<\/em> on Friday, but only for one episode. I&#8217;ll get to the rest of it later.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix removed <em>Foyle&#8217;s War<\/em> from its streaming service a while back, but last week I found it on Hoopla, so now Tim and I can get back to watching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m trying to be briefer, especially since the update is already so late. Worship team \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve been moved from piano to synth for at least the next few months. We have too many pianists. 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