Weeknote for 20240901-20240907

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Okay, weeknote #2, let’s do this. Also, I’m finalizing and publishing this from a train — maybe the first time I’ve blogged from a train?

did

• Recompiled Emacs on all my machines — I’m currently running the v30 branch of master, and try to rebuild every month or so
• Set some more personal bests in the gym:
  • deadlifting 170 pounds for 3 sets of 5 reps
  • back squatting 160 pounds for 5 sets of 5 reps
• Spent several hours and 4 different hardware store visits (3 to Ace, 1 to Lowe’s) getting my pressure washer set up to use quick connects between the hose and the washer, and the hose and the wand. This was nowhere near my list of things to accomplish this weekend, but these connections have always been a giant pain in the ass to set up, so hopefully this effort pays off in the long term
• This overlaps with the “cooked” section below, a bit, but this feels like it’s worth a specific shoutout: I made pasta from scratch for the first time (and aside from utterly fucking up the “make a volcano and put eggs in the crater” part) it went mostly okay
• Attended the September social meeting of Spark Studio Salem
• Spent most of a day working on converting a chunk of work’s website from the “old badness” of Next.js’s Pages Router to the “new hotness” of the App Router — which was just about enough time to get something that is 75% working, and also to realize that I should probably start over from scratch, because it could be done in a better way sigh

read

• “An atlas of continuous adaptive evolution in endemic human viruses”
• “The Why of Webnotes” #1
• “The Why of Webnotes” #2

watched

• “The Perfect Python Project” from North Bay Python 2024
• Still continuing to binge NCIS in the evenings with TheWife and Criminal Minds while rowing

cooked

• Pâtes aux Cêpes with homemade tagliatelle (Monday)
• grilled sausages (Tuesday)
• grilled chicken Caesar salad (Wednesday)
• grilled albacore filets and ahi steaks, with chimichurri rojo (Thursday)
• grilled marinated pork shoulder steak, with green beans (Friday)
• grilled steak, blue cheese sauce, roast rosemary-garlic potatoes (Saturday)

(Yes, that’s a lot of grilling; it was hot all week and it’s nice not turning on the stove!)

photo

I had no idea how pleased I’d be with a turntable in my office. (See what I did there…)

looking forward to

I’m going to be in Seattle for most of next week, and I’m going to get to meet my coworker who is normally based in New Zealand, as he’s visiting for a couple weeks.