Category: Monthly Roundups

”Wait, you mean I actually have to post to that thing?”

”If you want readers, then yeah.”

”Well, shit.”

It’s the nineteenth, and you know what that means, ladies and germs: it’s time for another monthly roundup.

(Or: The Belated Monthly Roundup)

This feature went on hiatus due to a death in the family a few days before I was set to write the second installment. It just didn’t feel right to sit down with my MacBook in my local Starbucks, dark-roast coffee in hand, to muse about the stuff keeping my mind occupied when in truth, most of my mental bandwidth found itself concerned with the unfolding tragedy. But the tragedy has since passed and we are now nineteen days into the year 2026. What have I learned, observed, etc., thus far this year?

This was meant to be posted on January 19. I’m not late. I’m never late.

I had meant to do this a week ago for the simple fact that 19 is my favorite number and the idea of issuing a monthly roundup on the nineteenth day of the month is too alluring for my nerd ass to resist.

Here’s what I’ve been thinking, reading, and doing for the past month or so.