This is my notebook. Any patterns or themes are in hindsight. Typos are usually fixed eventually.

Currently I’m using a daily notes format with a short (or sometimes long) status update, usually about my adventures living with post-Covid chronic fatigue, followed by links to various things I’ve seen on the internet, sometimes with additional commentary.

I write it through the day in short bursts (due to the aforementioned chronic fatigue) and then around 10pm I give it a final polish and shunt it onto the internet. The goal is to get me writing. I’ll never be as productive as I was before Covid but hopefully I can use this to reach out and feel human again.

I hope you like it!

General status

I’m a 50-something man living in Birmingham, UK. I’ve been chucking stuff up on websites since 1999, before that zines. This is all I know. Currently mentally and physically fucked by post-Covid chronic fatigue and trying to figure out how to be in the world again, online and off.

Taxonomy

Within a daily note I like break my links into categories.

• Reading is essays and blog posts of a reasonable length. This is also the catch-all category.
• Looking is for photography and visual art.
• Watching is basically YouTube because what other online videos are there.
• Listening is usually a podcast or radio show. I used to listen to a lot overnight before being prescribed melatonin.
• Music is usually what I’ve been listening to, not links about music, but sometimes it’s both. I link to Bandcamp if possible as it doesn’t require a login or subscription, and musician’s website remain abominations.
• Clicking is games or things that require the click of a mouse to interact with.
• Telly is not really internet but I like to keep a record.

I will make up new categories as the whim takes me.

Colophon

Daily notes are drafted through the day in iA writer on my Mac and via the Dropbox app if I read something on my stupid phone.

The blog runs on Micro.blog and is crossposted to Mastodon and Bluesky. Daily notes are sent out by email.

RSS feed: notes.peteashton.com/feed.xml

Other stuff I have online is listed at peteashton.com.

Email is always the best way to contact me: pete@peteashton.com