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Joshua Whiting

joshuaw.xyz

Now

support, training, troubleshooting around our library management software

guiding the library and technology staff in my school district through several recent software updates and other technical changes to our library and resource management software (Destiny)
curation and collection development in between all the tech support

filling student purchase recommendations, buying more copies of the most popular books, and making fun collections in our ebook/audiobook platform for students (Sora)
rewilding most of my yard

took one of the recent mild, warm days off to plant a bunch of native wildflower seeds in pots just before the current snowstorms - may still have been a waste of time at this point as I should have done this back in the late fall, but hopefully the weather will stay cool enough for a few more weeks for them to be cold stratified and at least some of them will grow and I can put them in the ground later (I discovered last year that sowing directly into the ground during a woodchip grass/weed smother didn’t really work)
cooking real food occasionally

examples: I sort of figured out stir fry finally, I recently made a homemade chocolate sauce/syrup that I really love, and I spent way too much money on a shipment of single origin spices from Burlap & Barrel that arrived last night
spending many evenings playing euchre and rummy 500 on CardzMania.com

Yes, that’s ‘cardzmania’ with a ‘z’ - this isn’t really a problem except for it is what I am doing instead of other things I supposedly want to be doing like reading, writing, working on this website, or even playing other video games
listening to every track by Big Thief on shuffle

because I’ve wanted to see them for years but never could, and found out they are doing a Twilight Concert in Salt Lake in September for just $20 a ticket and I got a ticket and now I just need to figure out if or how I can convince anyone in my family to go to this concert with me - no worries if not, though, I will not hesitate to go by myself

rebrand our old “Get Outside!” Sora collection as “Touch Grass,” and also get outside more myself (though probably not literally touch grass because I already smothered our grass with woodchips)
get even more serious and official about this rewilding thing and apply for the Utah Pollinator Habitat Program
try cooking more real things with all these new spices I just got
make using this website and sharing things on the internet a consistent part of my life again

The 'now' and 'next' portions of this page were last updated on March 15, 2025. (See my prior 'now' updates linked below.)

The Linking/Listening/Playing/Reading/Watching sections are or soon will be dynamically updated from my various activity logs, which can be accessed by clicking the '[ more ]' links to the right of the images.

Credit for the 'now' page concept goes to Derek Sivers. I tend to get aspirational when I update it, so I've decided to embrace that by adding a 'next' section.