Published on 2024-04-23
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Week of April 16-22, 2024

Personal

• Another weekend ending with my wife going on a business trip. A longer one this time - she was gone Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. She had a really good trip and an enjoyable conference, so that's good! On my end I made some updates to the website^[1]
• I watched the late Blue Jays games (they were in San Diego) - usually I don't watch late games because I don't want to stay up. But not going anywhere the next day and being on my own...makes for something to do
• More video games: I played a couple MLB The Show 16 games; I have a "bottom feeders" playoff bracket set up with all the bad teams that finished at the bottom of the league in 2016. I won 1 game, lost the other.
  • I also set up a NEW Be a GM mode in NHL Legacy; as I said last week I made a team TOO terrible and wasn't getting much out of it. I created a new BAGM controlling the Edmonton Oilers. We'll see how that goes.
• I wrote two blog posts but spent a lot of time posting on Mastodon; I especially liked my post titled "Habits" because it's part of the writing I'm trying to do where I write more about memories of the past.
• Monday (yesterday) I set up a Tasker profile & task to set a random daily wallpaper from a folder on my phone. I have a hard time picking a wallpaper I want to stick to so this will help with that. I'll probably write a post about that later.

Healthy Living

• I don't know if most people would qualify this as part of "healthy living" but this is my page, so I am. Last week I mentiond listening to a "life hacks" episode of Ologies, well this week I listened to one about decluttering. I've been taking in a lot of the information in these episodes and applying them in different ways.
  • As with things from Stolen Focus I am starting to use Google Keep to record things I want to look up - and save them for later instead of looking them up right away. The next step here is perhaps including context as to why I want to look it up.
  • I tidied up a shelf full of tools and extra screws. In the process I got rid of a bunch of rolls of tape we have no use for. And I found some lost tools!
• Still experimenting with KT Tape; I've found what works for my toe/metatarsal. And I also confirmed that it still hurts when I don't have it stabalized with tape, so my upcoming doctor visit is still relevant.
• I cleaned out my car! It was looking pretty dirty from its last long-range trip and it was a nice day Sunday, so I finally got to wiping it down and vacuuming.

Media

• I read this article: How Platforms Killed Pitchfork; kind of a sad mini history about Pitchfork but also prompted me to do more listening to my Spotify Discover Weekly + Release Radar playlists
• Watched more X-Files - I really enjoyed "Beyond The Sea" and I think it's the strongest of season 1, so far
• Caught up with the latest season of Star Trek Discovery. We watched the first 3 episodes. I like it so far but it's very much following a similar format to the last 3 seasons.