Friday Varia and Quick Hits

After closing the week with some nice days, this weekend winter will remind us that it is still around for a couple more month with cold temperatures once again. Oh well. It is good reading weather as the saying goes.

This weekend sees the NASCAR guys head to Austin’s Circuit of the Americas for their first road course challenge. It’s usually pretty entertaining. The T20 Mens Cricket World Cup continues with England – New Zealand today and India – West Indies on Sunday catching my interest. On Saturday, Emanuel Navarrete takes on Eduardo Núñez in what the kids call an “all action” fight. To wrap up the weekend, the Sixers play the hated Celtics on Sunday night.

I have some good work to do today and this weekend and after a rough couple weeks of quasi-productivity, I am eager to get back into a routine. To kick that off, here are some quick hits and varia:

• Even the best needs a break sometimes.

• Two articles:

Participatory Archaeology for Heritage Preparedness: Addressing the Wicked Problem of Anti- Democratic Discourse.

Reimagining the role of coal mining heritage in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the 1984–85 UK Miners’ strike, green energy transitions and the Carbocene.

• Isolarii.

• Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.

• What I am reading: Apuleius, Metamorphosis.

• What I am listening to: Frank Morgan, Mood Indigo.