Petar Toushkov @[email protected]

I’ve been excited about this for the better half of the day:

The ancient Persian way to keep cool

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210810-the-ancient-persian-way-to-keep-cool

Finishing this little short story anthology for the magazine. Generated mock-ups aside, anthologies are harder to achieve than they look. Not impossible though.

Bought a book before Christmas. Seemingly forgotten blog I follow came to life and recommended it. First five pages are alright, I should probably read it!

Reducing my personal website to the absolute minimum. I find it funny, the way you try to shave off the clutter with the advance of the years. Still, I am stubbornly preserving my "blogroll". It's an outdated thing, and many people get rid of it sooner or later, but I like it.

Did I mention Amazon's support removed the Special Offers from my trusty Kindle Paperwhite 3? Long story short, it wasn't possible to pay and remove them myself due to regional bullshit. Love the generic wallpapers. So simple, yet long denied.

I am trying to think of something positive. Like cat whiskers, or high-velocity Quake 1 on 1, or an overnight train journey, or you find yourself in an unfamiliar coast town but you smell the sea from just a few streets away and you don't feel lost.

Sleeping for 10 hours helps. I found this after I skipped the previous night with only one hour of sleep waking up from a nightmare.

Since 1996, I am constantly aware I am way overdue with a couple of library books. Feelings of guilt grown out of proportions.

I am having terrible dreams of simple happiness that could never come through.

It was the doubt that what I felt was real and not a delusion.

This song is killing me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT6XCvDUUsU

Making promo posters for the weekly sales we throw out at the publishing house. 7 books each week, a book a day. I am trying everything I could think of like there's no tomorrow, and I love it. But I love Pixabay.com the most.