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Joshua Whiting

joshuaw.xyz

Now

continuing to “INST TECH LIBRARY MEDIA” all over ‘em

a couple of recent notable artifacts: Sora collection development - ‘New Books in Granite’s Sora’, library circulation stats (physical and digital combined)
rewilding my front yard

I am an official grant recipient of the Utah Pollinator Habitat Program and I actually picked up my 150-ish little baby native plants yesterday! Need to get them in the ground soon. I should post more about this.
started biking, mostly just around town, and I’m actually enjoying it
I have a lot of thoughts about this, such as why this is suddenly do-able for me after decades away, what I’m discovering about my city by exploring it this way, whether I will start actually mountain biking and realizing maybe I actually don’t like mountain biking and hiking, I like walking through the woods and deserts but not climbing mountains or rushing down mountains, but these should be their own post or posts, so I’ll refrain from an endless note here.
new owner of an iPhone Air, preorderd and obtained day of release
I’m not usually an early purchaser/adopter and I was actually still quite content with my existing phone (an iPhone 13 mini). My daughter needs a phone, though, so I’m passing the 13 mini to her, but I made her wait until these new 17 phones came out. Decided to go for the somewhat ridiculous Air because it just looked like it would be nice to have and fun to use, something different and new. I don’t have a tablet/iPad/ereader or anything like that and I like to read and do tablet-y stuff on my phone so that helped me justify it - yet another thing I could probably explore more thoroughly and post
finishing up a CSA subscription - its one of the New Roots CSAs and I pick it up right at their Redwood Farm every Tuesday.
This has been equal parts fun to try and exceedingly stressful. By my hopes and designs It forced me to try cooking and eating a lot of new-to-me things, many of which I liked, but now I have a secondary fridge full of specific, weird vegetables (beets, chard, kale) at varying levels of freshness to rottenness that I can’t deal with because though I like them I don’t always want to cook these particular things and no one else in my family really likes vegetables like I do - I should write and post about this experience as well.

get those baby native plants into the ground in the next week or so
remember this website
- start logging my listening, reading, playing, etc. here again, writing book reviews, etc.
- start writing about other stuff here, too
- cultivate a thriving digital garden
figure out how to keep my phone primarily as a tool for learning, creativity, positive communication
stop ignoring all the things wrong with my house and get some things working and decent
ChatGLP-1?

The 'now' and 'next' portions of this page were last updated on January 3, 2026. (See my prior 'now' updates linked below.)

The Linking/Listening/Playing/Reading/Watching sections are or soon will be dynamically updated from my various activity logs, which can be accessed by clicking the '[ more ]' links to the right of the images.

Credit for the 'now' page concept goes to Derek Sivers. I tend to get aspirational when I update it, so I've decided to embrace that by adding a 'next' section.