My Actifit Report Card: November 7 2019

Didn’t get the NaNoWriMo writing done today, but that’s because I worked a lot on school stuff and just didn’t get around to finishing it off. I’m hoping to catch up tomorrow (it is, after all, a month-long thing and not necessarily a per-day thing).

More family’s in town now, making the house a little crowded (metaphorically; we have a few people in town and a few people out of town, so most people are elsewhere right now). It’s nice in some ways, because I haven’t seen some of them in literally years (not that we haven’t talked over the phone or whatnot), but it’s also something that’s going to require me to really be disciplined to stay on top of things while everyone’s around.

Listened to more of the audiobook that I’ve been somewhat ambivalent about. I think I can really narrow down my complaints, again, to the fact that it feels like the writer has an ax to grind instead of just trying to make his point. Now, one could point out that there are theoretical situations where it might be necessary, but the assumption seems to be that the reader is not only naively ignorant, but so naively ignorant that they need to be broken out of it.

Combine this with the fact that the method of doing this is to recount things which are not necessarily unknown ad infinitum, and it gets annoying, both because it feels like the author is going beyond their stated goals and being pretentious and because there are a lot of things that get brought up that wouldn’t surprise anyone with a solid education. If this were a book aimed at laypeople and a very basic text, I wouldn’t be surprised or upset, but I had heard that this was an academic text and it is, generally, presented as one.

Upside: I appreciate other books more now.

Daily Activity, Walking