What I’m Doing Right Now

Last updated Monday, December 22, 2025 from my cozy, snow-wrapped home in Wisconsin..

Recently

In early December I went on a Caribbean cruise vacation with the family, with stops in St. Thomas (USVI), St. Maarten, San Juan Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas. It was nice to soak up some sun before our long, cold, and dry winter up here in Wisconsin.

On October 12 I completed the 2025 Chicago Marathon with a time of 4 hours and 11 minutes - a 16 minute PR! I followed the Hal Higdon Intermediate 1 training plan and have logged more than 800 running miles so far this year.

I took at sabbatical from my full-time job at Zendesk earlier this Summer. I spent most of my time off away from my computer, engaging in physical hobbies, spending time with my family, and traveling. Some day I would like to do a sabbatical where I spend time doing fun things on a computer (like the Recurse Center) but this was exactly what I needed to take a step back given the state of the tech industry.

Projects

• Building Olima and Olipods.
• oliver - a jekyll theme - a new design for my personal website. I really like Jekyll, but I have very little experience with frontend web development (mainly CSS), so it’s been a good learning project.

Reading

I often find myself reading too many books at once.

Currently

Fiction

• The Gates of the Feral Gods
• The Will of the Many
• Catch-22
• Blood Meridian

Non-Fiction

• The Anxious Generation
• On Tyranny
• Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

On-deck

See my my Goodreads TBR or my 2026 reading list.

Multi-Book Series I Am Currently Reading

• Dungeon Crawler Carl (3/7 done)
• The Stormlight Archive (1/5 done)
• Children of Time (1/3 done)
• Dune (1/6 done)
• The Wheel of Time (0/15 done)
• Mistborn Saga (0/7 done)

Books I Read in 2025

• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Circe
• Misery
• A Dance with Dragons
• Wool
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
• The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
• Piranesi
• The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
• Good Morning, Midnight
• Onyx Storm
• East of Eden
• The Way of Kings
• Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
• Dungeon Crawler Carl

Games

I got a Switch 2!

Now Playing

Most recent at the top, but all of these are kind of in rotation at the moment…

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Timberborn
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Always Playing

• Balatro
• Stardew Valley

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