Weeknote #18 (20250119-20250125)

meta

absolute omnishambles shitshow of a week. gonna be a long …everything.

did

  • Spent most of the long weekend doing a massive GTD/Omnifocus bankruptcy/reboot/redo — basically did an abbreviated version of the “capture everything” process from the GTD book, and reworked my Omnifocus perspectives, and then processed existing Omnifocus actions into a new structure. I find doing this every couple years is a good way to blow the dust out of the corners of my productivity management system, and it was a great weekend to have something to go head-down on and ignore the bigger world
  • Overall, not the most productive work week; probably unsurprising given everything happening in the broader world
  • Gave a “introduction to the Fediverse” talk at Hack Salem on Wednesday — the turnout was disappointingly low but the talk went well, I thought. Scheming about what, if anything, I can do to convince local business folks to GTFO Meta…
  • Had a PCP check-in on Friday, which gave me a chance to ask about my shoulder — which turned into getting X-rays done right after the PCP appointment. Depending on whether they can see anything, there may be an MRI in my future (pretty sure there will be…), but I’d really like if my shoulder would stop hurting all the damn time, so jump through the hoops I will

read

listened

watched

  • Finished NCIS: Sydney S1; not sure we’ll be back for S2 when it starts streaming in a couple weeks
  • Aside: are the Paramount AppleTV and iOS apps massively janky for anybody else? I’ve pretty much given up on the AppleTV app, as it refuses to do anything without crashing more or less instantly, and Airplaying from the iOS version seems to be getting less reliable too…
  • Moved on to NCIS: Origins, which we managed to catch up to “now” on pretty rapidly
  • Finishing off our NCIS tour with NCIS: New Orleans — which I have watched before, and TheWife hasn’t

cooked

Between meetings and the short week, this was a weird cooking week.