What I’m Doing Right Now
Last updated Tuesday, August 26, 2025 from my home in Wisconsin..
I recently completed a one month sabbatical from my full-time job at Zendesk. 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 right now. I am feeling re-invigorated and anxious to get back to work.
Upcoming
I am currently training for the 2025 Chicago Marathon, using the Hal Higdon intermediate 1 training plan.
Projects
- Olima - coming soon.
- 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 always find myself reading too many books at once.
Currently
| Fiction | Non-Fiction |
|---|---|
| Blood Meridian | The Anxious Generation |
| The Gate of the Feral Gods (DCC Book 4) | |
| Circe |
On-deck
| Fiction | Non-Fiction |
|---|---|
| Catch-22 | Mark Twain by Ron Chernow |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Everything is Tuberculosis |
| The Four Winds | Abundance |
| The House in the Cerulean Sea |
See more at my Goodreads TBR.
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 Read in 2025
- 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…
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
- Mario Kart World
- Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
- Stellar Blade
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Stardew Valley (1.6 Update!)
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Bloomtown: A Different Story
Always Playing
P.S - you can view the history of this page in GitHub if you’re interested.
This is a /now page. If you have your own site, you should make one too!