Mark Larson

Last weekend we made gumbo.

Art Moses and the Burning Bush, acrylic on canvas by Keith Haring.

This morning I spent a couple hours listening to Bach, loudly, while I puttered around the house.

Last weekend I went back home to Atlanta.

I already had a lot of experience when I joined my team at work.

Art A Mayan blackware ceramic vessel modeled in the form of an owl.

I fear that I haven't paid much attention to my day-to-day life lately.

I'm just hunkering down and avoiding the heat as much as I can.

I got a photo from family recently.

I remember getting really grumpy that first Sunday in June.

I don't miss Twitter and for the first time in a long time, I gave serious thought to deleting my account.

Feels like work kinda took over this week.

One of those periods where life runs away with me and other things fall away.

I don't remember when I took Twitter off of my phone.

Felt like a bit of auto-pilot this week, activities on most evenings and packed days in between.

Did my taxes last week, a capstone on an other wise perfect Sunday: awake early, reading and writing in bed for a bit, morning walk, personal admin, afternoon run, pizza, movie, nap, dinner, reading until bedtime.

This was an exhausting week at work, and that sort of vacuumed up all the energy I might have put elsewhere.

Yesterday we took a day trip to Washington D.C., which is a kind of trip I don't do often enough.

This sentence aside, I find myself in a less reflective mood lately.

A reminder to myself: It's nice to call my family.

A week of ups and downs – a trail race, an injured finger, a random Sunday evening adventure, a 24-hour stomach flu, a miserable workday, an invigorating professional conference, a beautiful evening run, a long call with a friend.

The last week was a blur!

Recently I moved up to the ChatGPT Pro subscription, and was surprised I felt mixed feelings about it, a sort of self-consciousness.

It's nice to spend time differently, to give a familiar situation a new flavor.

I got sick this week, catching some local plague that had me down, but not out.

I watched 125 movies in 2024.

For the last week, I've been obsessed with my new CO₂ monitor.

This week at work I had to reckon with not being as productive as I could have been.

Yesterday I went to an afternoon choral concert put on by the Park Slope Singers, a local amateur community group.

I've mentioned goblin mode a couple times (2024 week 4 and week 36), and this week I had another go-round, a shortened version.

Last week was my first full week of work this year, and Monday was tough.

For the first time in a long time, I didn't make it to midnight on New Year's Eve.

Last week I went to London, which I can confirm is one of the world's greatest cities.

This week I went to a white elephant party.

This week my team at work had an off-site gathering.

I'm typically in the office ~5 days every week.

I went back home for Thanksgiving.

Over forty years on Earth and I'm still learning how to manage ebb and flow of a week.

Yesterday I went to the Brooklyn Musem.

We elected a new President on my birthday.

This morning I used my extra fall-back hour to do some trailrunning, and it's just a perfect way to start the week.

Last weekend was Open House New York Weekend, where you can snoop around a bunch of places that you usually can't.

I removed Twitter from my phone last Sunday, and it's been interesting to compare before and after.

Took a few hours last Sunday evening for a couple hours of reading – phone off, devices stashed away… and a break for cookies.

I got married on Friday morning and it was perfect.

This week I started my new job.

Last week I got a new job.

This weekend I went to Albany, adding another state capital to my meager collection (let's see, top of my head: AL, AZ, AR, CO, GA, HI, IN, LA, MD, MT, TN).

Last week I finished a project: MoviePeers.com, a novelty website inspired by a tweet from last year.

Last weekend I tried on my wedding ring, and what a lovely feeling.