Week of October 19-26, 2025

Is was a challenging work week. When I have unresolved issues at work, that tends to leave me with less mental energy overall.

I’ve continued my morning running habit that I started over the summer, and it’s chilly in the mornings now. I’m not sure how far into the year I’m going to push this. When it comes to my bicycle riding, I’m pretty much a wuss about the cold and I rarely ride past mid-October. Part of my goal with running is to get my body acclimated to the changing temperatures with the hope to extend my bicycling season. The fact that I’m still running in chilly weather is already an accomplishment for me. We’ll see how long that lasts.

I started reading Good Omens. Early this summer, I read a few pages and decided I wasn’t in the mood for it. Now that the weather has turned colder, I’ve picked it up again to see if being in a different headspace would make me more receptive. Though I’m 150 pages in and I’m considering bailing on it. It’s strange that I dislike it as much as I do since this year I’ve read three of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books and loved them all. The whole reason I bought Good Omens was that it happened to be the only Terry Pratchett book at the Half Price Books when I went looking for another Discworld book. If I’m still struggling through it by next week, I’ll call it.

I watched the first two games of the World Series between the LA Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays. I don’t have cable, so it’s been really nice to get the games on the regular over-the-air Fox broadcast. I don’t normally watch things with commercials, so it’s pretty wild to see ads for sports betting and injection weight loss drugs. It’s clearly not my world. I hope everybody’s doing okay out there.

I must mention, the Eye of Sauron continues its gaze upon the great city of Chicago.