What I’m doing now

I’m living in Beijing.

My main job is at Beijing Hikers, doing a bit of everything (website/​emails/​​bookings/​planning hikes/​leading hikes/​etc).

I’m doing a read-through of the Discworld novels. (I wanted to call it a binge-read; can it still count as a binge if it’s slow?) Next is Jingo (21/41), which I’m looking forward to as it’s one of the City Watch sub-series. Favourite characters so far: Granny Weatherwax, Death. (The World’s Slowest Binge-Read™ is now also The World’s Slowest Live-Blog™)

I’m trying to increase my rating on chess.com to 1000 in 2025, which has been more difficult than expected. Finally broke into the 700s after bouncing off 698 for weeks.

Current moustache status: Ulysses Everett McGill.