Daily updates – a sibilant intake of breath

As a general rule, I post a lot here when I do not have projects ongoing that are linked to other people and I am focused on ‘making my own fun’ in the sense of doing self-directed and curios...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/12/08/occupied/

Tomorrow I am turning forty, which feels like the best guess for the halfway point of my life. In the last couple of years — and especially recent months — I have been feeling incredibly isol...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/11/27/halfway-through-life/

As of last night, my new dwelling has that most indespensible of features that makes a modern building a home: home internet and wifi. I had been holding off due to my lack of income, but my brot...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/11/06/internet-ed/

https://www.sindark.com/2023/11/03/books-and-lego-space-hardware-in-the-perch/

https://www.sindark.com/2023/11/02/fall/

While it won’t help with my rent, I nonetheless have some very interesting work for the next few days. I am doing a close read twice of Professor Peter Russell’s forthcoming memoirs, which ha...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/10/30/reviewing-an-unreleased-book-and-tv-show/

Yesterday I got my steel bedframe, futon, pillows, and bedding delivered by my cousin Oleksa and his partner. I had no space for them in my temporary student co-op digs, and my aunt offered to ha...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/10/26/post-old-orchard-properties-move-finished/

Because the pay working as a food delivery cyclist is so dismal — and because ultimately I need a job with career advancement potential and the prospect of doing useful work on climate change �...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/10/22/the-next-job-search-push/

I have not been able to find another job, I love cycling, and I know the city — so I have been trying out working as food delivery rider for uber. The lesson from 19.5 hours in is that it pays ...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/10/21/uber-eats-bike-delivery-break-even-time-in-downtown-toronto/

Even compared to recent low feelings, I am now feeling emotionally and psychologically about as bad as I ever have. All the way back to kindergarten or before, I either had school or work to occu...

https://www.sindark.com/2023/10/09/languishing/

One month with Bike Share Toronto One month of Bike Share Toronto and three years of exercise walks

https://www.sindark.com/2023/10/06/just-over-one-month-with-bike-share-toronto/

Σ 529 km

https://www.sindark.com/2023/09/22/20-days-on-bike-share-toronto/