Brags

• Successful NAR Level One certification flight
• Built a much improved runtime error notification tool for production at work
• My “Now Playing on KEXP” web app made glitch.com’s cool apps list for October

Not brags, but notable things

• Adopted two kittens: Yaml Jiji Peralta and Markdown Prescott
• Moved to Oakland
• Went car-less for the first time since college and got a cargo bicycle

Books read

1. Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdez
2. Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir
3. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
4. A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
5. Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
6. Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
7. Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
8. Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Tom Bertram, Matt Hollingsworth
9. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
10. A Memory of Empire by Arkady Martine
11. Slow River by Nicola Griffith
12. Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
13. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
14. Fireheart Tiger by Alliete de Bodard
15. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
16. The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

I didn’t read non-fiction books this year, and lot of what I read was or had substantial queer romance in it, so this was a year for comfort reading.

I loved the Teixcalaan books and The Hands of the Emperor and will defend Cilopher Mdang and Three Seagrass to the ends of the earth.

Singles I loved

• “B-Side” by Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
• “Bitter Streets” by SAULT
• “Fuck these Fuckin Fascists” by The Muslims
• “In the Country” by La Luz
• “If I Could Choose” by The Shivas
• “Juban District” by Ginger Root
• “Hate That I Need You” by Kevin Nichols
• “Meds” by Idles
• “Afrique Victime” by Mdou Moctar
• “Scarcity is Manufactured” by Deerhoof
• “Electricity” by Ibibio Sound Machine & Hot Chip
• “Wake Me Up” by Foals
• “Oh!” by The Linda Lindas
• “A Ti Que Te Importa (Cumbia Manifesto Pt. 1)” by Mexican Institute of Sound & Los Dianas
• “Wet Dream” by Wet Leg
• “Savage Good Boy” by Japanese Breakfast
• “Stay in the Car” by Bachelor
• “Before You Gotta Go” by courtney barnett
• “Satellite” by Thundercat ft. Louis Cole & Genevieve Artadi

During that window between Delta and Omicron, Cynthia and I got to make it to some shows and see Mdou Moctar, Wilco, Wet Leg, CHVRCHES, Jungle, St. Vincent, Spoon, Angélique Kidjo, and Idles.