13 Mar: Starting Year Four
Note: the PDF file will not build at the moment, due to missing Unicode character issues that I haven’t had time to investigate yet.
Approximately 14,000 words • Topics: the power and the damage done • the grid, off • every outage like a setting sun • lost work time • living without a refrigerator • replacements and upgrades • my health • Joshua’s new guitar • I keep practicing • I’d like to teach myself to sing in perfect harmony • daylight hating time • work update • EO (2022 film) • The General (1926 silent film) • Yes, Madam (1985 film) • Deep End (1970 film) • Boy and the World (2013 animated film) • Watership Down (1978 animated film) • Eleanor’s Secret (2009 animated film) • Songs for Drella (1990 concert film) • The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017 animated film) • April and the Extraordinary World (2015 animated film) • The Wolf Children (2012 animated film) • Penguin Highway (2010 animated film) • Belle (2021 animated film) • Tokyo Godfathers (2003 animated film) • a wild refrigerator appears • Avatar (2009 film) • On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019 animated film) • Star Trek: Picard season three • update on the stereo receiver • Three Ages (1923 silent film) • back to BASIC • BASIC considered painful • how the Animal program works • and onward to Python
23 Mar: An Old_Person’s Guide to King Crimson, Part One 
Approximately 11,500 words • Topics: unstuck in time 1: King Crimson in 1995 • unstuck in time 2: Chapman Stick • unstuck in time 3: playing the Stick • unstuck in time 4: King Crimson on Fridays, or, five minutes that changed my life • unstuck in time 5: “Doctor Diamond” live • about the name • an old person’s guide to King Crimson, part one: 1981-1984 • some observations of King Crimson • King Crimson is not exactly one band • there aren’t any “bad” King Crimson albums • King Crimson’s best albums are live albums • King Crimson in the eighties: red, blue, and yellow • Discipline (1981 album) • Beat (1982 album) • Three of a Perfect Pair (1983 album) • bonus review: Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal 1984 (1998 album)
04 Apr: Library Update • [PDF] 
Approximately 8,100 words • Topics: the chocolate order • expired plates • appliance update • chocolate update • a new networking option • Mission: Impossible (1996 film) • Kubo and the Two Strings (2016 animated film) • Puss in Boots (2011 animated film) • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022 film) • The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady (2019 French short film) • Sierra (2022 Estonian animated film) • The Truman Show (1998 film) • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022 animated film) • Planet of the Apes (1968 film) • Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970 film) • Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005 film) • The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker • The Apocalypse Files and The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross • Virtual Light by William Gibson • The Life of Cuthbert and Ancrene Wisse • Music is Our Friend: Live in Washington and Albany by King Crimson • Anniversaries Volumes 1 and 2 by Uwe Johnson (New York Review Books Classics) • Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky (New York Review Books Classics) • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro • Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneâmise (1987 animated film) • Electronic Meditations, Alpha Centauri, Zeit, and Atem by Tangerine Dream • No Pussyfooting by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno • I get mail
01 May: The Mystery Hose • [PDF] 
Approximately 8,300 words • Topics: Pippin’s birthday • the last bookcase • the kids finally clean their room • too badly in need of coffee to make coffee • car repairs • the mystery hose • an old person’s guide to King Crimson, part two: 1971-1972 • Ladies of the Road: Live 1971-1972 (2002 King Crimson live album) • how to hear more of the 1971-1972 King Crimson • Sailor’s Tales (2017 King Crimson boxed set) • Islands (1971 King Crimson album) • so, what have we learned? • library update • I want to be a paperback reader • paperback highlights • The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson • First Lensman and Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. “Doc” Smith • Last and First Men and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and That Man on Beta by Addison E. Steele • Slan, The World of Null-A, Planets for Sale, and other books by A. E. van Vogt • various books by Philip José Farmer • various books by David Gerrold • Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels • John Christopher’s Tripods series
15 May: Mother’s Day Dinner • [PDF] 
Approximately 3,300 words • Topics: guitar progress • Anythynge You Want To: Shakespeare’s Lost Comedie by The Firesign Theatre • weekend update • “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” (The X-Files season 3, episode 20) • When Marnie Was There (2014 animated film) • The Crow (1994 film) • Mother’s Day dinner
09 June: ProjeKcts One to Four • [PDF] 
Approximately 17,300 words • Topics: hot and dry • family news • The Dark Crystal (1982 film) • “D.P.O” (The X-Files season 3, episode 3) • The Mask (1994 film) • Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023 film) • Source Code (2011 film) • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013 film) • Good Will Hunting (1997 film) • Trouble in Paradise (1932 film) • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014 Film) • Silent Running (1972 film) • Mission: Impossible 2 (2002 film) • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2 • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 (2014 film) • getting into the ProjeKcts • for me, it was a Tuesday • hot, wet, and smoky • the hose mystery, solved • an old person’s guide to King Crimson, part three: ProjeKcts One to Four, 1997-1999 • Trey Gunn • Pat Mastelotto • The ProjeKcts • ProjeKct One • ProjeKct Two • ProjeKct Four • ProjeKct Three • in conclusion, the ProjeKcts are bands of contrasts
06 September: Our Indoor Summer • [PDF] 
Approximately 8,900 words • Topics: appliances • debt • the library • The Hair-Carpet Weavers by Andreas Eschbach • Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past, volume 1) • The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell • my health • summer dinner • School of Rock (2003 film) • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 (2015 film) • Ghost in the Shell (1995 animated film) • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004 film) • AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001 film) • The Twilight Zone (1958 TV series), season 5, episode 3, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2, episodes 4, 6, 9, and 10 • Being John Malkovich (1999 film) • Years of Living Dangerously (2014 Showtime documentary series), season 1, episodes 1 to 4 • Gormenghast (2000 BBC miniseries) • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988 film) • Les Miserables (2012 film) • Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999 film) • Battle Royale (2000 film) • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film, director’s cut) • Real Genius (1985 film) • Planet of the Apes (2001 film) • Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023 film) • John Wick (2014 film) • Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023 film) • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989 film) • The Day After Tomorrow (2004 film) • Returning to The X-Files, after a slight delay • The X-Files, season 8, episode 6: “Redrum” • a requiem for iTunes • FLAC files • tagging FLAC files • the user experience • update: Mp3tag
06 October: Twice Eleven • [PDF] 
Note: the PDF file has the photos placed on separate pages not in the points where they appear in the original Markdown source. I’m not sure why that is, but nothing is actually missing.
Approximately 6,100 words • Topics: ’tis the season (for birthdays and anniversaries) • gardening • work • health • the library database project • SQL • my database design • authors • publishers • paper book types • paper book shelving areas • paper book editions • paper books • sample views • how long will this take? • pictures included in this newsletter: Dad’s cake; Benjamin’s cake; Sam’s cake; Sam; our New York Review Books shelves; our Library of America shelves