I think I am a bit of a bored time optimist. I think that I will have time to do a lot during a limited time slot aaaaand it is often more fun to start a new project than to finish the one I started previously.

Since last time, I have been laying low on making squares for my blanket and started a bunch of other projects. I have about 125 squares left to do before I am up to speed—might have been a bad idea to have four squares per finished book— but I have actually made about a third of the squares now! I think I will stop the blanket at 50 books, it currently looks like the blanket is at a good size then. Which gives me time to actually catch up and perhaps it is possible to be finished with the blanket this year.

I finished The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald yesterday, block number 49. A bit boring book, I sadly liked the afterword more than the book itself. I am very pleased that I now managed to get at least one block of every colour! One more block and then I will stop adding books for this blanket.

Sometimes when I get bored I do unnecessary calculations. For example, if I were to read my all my unread books in a year, how many pages would I have to read per day? 98. If I were to read 50 pages per day the rest of this year, how much would it be for one year? 70 pages per day. First thought in those occasions is That could actually be possible but then I give it a second and remember that I read a bunch of other books than from my shelves and I also do other things than read so that it totally not a reasonable thing to do. And I am pretty sure that the app where I take my page numbers from, it is probably missing some numbers and when I have tried to keep it as a tracker for how many pages I have read and acquired over a month, the numbers do not add up. It is a fun thinking experience though.