I’ve spent a long time building an extensive watch face “bench” and it’s been extremely satisfying. I’m just getting into (mechanical) watch collecting and have been recreating watch faces that I can run on my Apple Watch Ultra 4. This allows me to “test drive” watches to try to determine what I really like, particularly

I have some catching up to do. I’ve read 14 books since the end of the Part 2 post, although 5 were rereads. I read The Six, which is a recounting of the first 6 (American) women in space. Great read. I grew up in this era, so it’s always fun to hear what was

I’ve been playing with WatchOS apps for some time and like everyone else, always wanted to create my own watch faces. Apple has never allowed this and I don’t see that ever changing. To punctuate this fact, they mandate a status bar in the upper-right corner of every WatchOS that shows the system time. Now,

How is it that I just found out about the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, published back in August of 2024. There are actually 2 lists, the “original” Critics’ list, and then the Readers’ Choice list. 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Readers Choose Their Best Books of the 21st Century

Well, the first half of 2026 is almost in the books (pun intended) and I thought I would provide an update on what I’ve been reading since I wrote Part 1. Part 1 only covers the first 7 books of this year and I’m up to almost 50, so there is some ground to cover.

As I wrote in my Favorite Books of 2025 post, my intention for this year was to read some classic literature and as my first book, I chose Withering Heights several months ago. I had never read it growing up and you often hear it being “the best love story of all time” or other

As you may have read from my post about my favorite books of 2025, I’ve decided to start writing a post about the books I’m reading in 2026 now, throughout the year, as I read them. This way I’m hoping to have more immediate feedback on the books, not struggling through some hazy memory of

As I stated last year (every year?), I don’t have any expectations for the number of books I read in any given year. I did have an “intention” for 2025 to read mostly non fiction. Looking back at my favorite books each year, a surprising number of them were from the non fiction books I

I don’t have any expectations for the number of books I’ll read in any given year. For whatever reason, 2024 started out with a bang and things just progressed from there. One hundred and thirty books is a new record for me, by some margin. It could have been a fair bit more but I