Yes, it is a holiday, but I need to go out. I need to hatch a 10-km Pokémon egg and maybe take some pictures along the way.
🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371977Reactivated my Instapaper account (last article saved was in January 2015) so that I can read articles on my Kobo.
🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371948The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter follows the adventures and travails of heroes Joshua Valiente and Lobsang in an exciting continuation of the extraordinary science fiction journey begun in their New York Times bestseller The Long Earth.⭐⭐⭐⭐
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, humankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by “stepping.” A new “America”—Valhalla—is emerging more than a million steps from Datum—our Earth. Thanks to a bountiful environment, the Valhallan society mirrors the core values and behaviors of colonial America. And Valhalla is growing restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government.
Soon Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a building crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any humankind has waged before.
📕 read The Long War (The Long Earth, Book 2) https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5ae245cb-9b44-4331-b0e7-2335c46c6b07 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371946
Currently reading The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, Book 4) by Rick Riordan.
🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371943I miss Sliders. Yeah, those what-if scenarios are becoming real.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/paulcatiang.bsky.social/post/3lwxfsalkjs2e 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371933I feel like I’m using a film camera. I can only see if the shot is good after downloading it on the computer, just like developing a roll of film. I require my reading glasses to clearly see the digital display on the camera, but I don’t like whipping them out while shooting.
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I’m going for a walk. I need around 9000 steps more.

So, the (editorial) photos I contributed to a stock photography site has been approved. Now what?
🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371923Ever since the gods of ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in trouble.⭐⭐⭐⭐
As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command; but the devious gods haven't given them time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, a training ground for young magicians.
And now their most threatening enemy yet—the Chaos snake, Apophis—is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will end. In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family.
To have any chance of battling the forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god, Ra. But that would be a feat more difficult than any magician has ever accomplished. First they have to search the world for the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is, exactly?
📕 read The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, Book 2) https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fa1a812d-fb99-4f35-9a22-62be8af0c194 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3371921
