Weeknote #27 (20250323-20250329)

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TheWife and Mx18 were away most of the week, visiting Mx18’s preferred college choice, so it was a bit of an outlier week, all in all.

did

  • Woke up Sunday with rather more shoulder pain than usual; the long Saturday bike ride was maybe not the greatest idea?
  • I had originally been told to expect a surgery scheduling call within a couple weeks; as it had been longer than that, I left some voicemail for KP Monday morning, and got a call back in the afternoon. Unfortunately, that call was to tell me that it was probably going to be about another month before I heard from the scheduler. sigh
  • Also on Monday, at work, I got my recent website work all merged, which felt good …so good that I grabbed another chunk and got to work on that
  • Lovely Tuesday weather …and then the rest of the week was back to a typically Oregonian March of 50° and rainy. Really looking forward to Actual Spring showing up one of these days…
  • One of the things I did during that lovely Tuesday weather was ride my bike across town (about 8 miles round trip?) to pick up a lunch salad …and then I had more shoulder pain than normal on Wednesday, to the point where I pushed Wed-Fri gym time back to Thu-Sat …if this happens a third time, I’m going to have to stop longer bike rides and that’s going to make me sad

exercise & shoulder recovery

  • Sunday: shoulder stretches
  • Monday: stretching in the morning, gym (shoulder stuff, deadlifts, Zottman curls) in the afternoon
  • Tuesday: morning stretches
  • Wednesday: morning stretches
  • Thursday: morning stretches, gym (shoulder stuff, bicep curls, Bulgarian split squats) in the afternoon
  • Friday: morning stretches
  • Saturday: skipped morning stretches and just went to the gym (shoulder stuff, deadlifts, Zottman curls)

(I realize this section is probably boring and repetitive as hell for anybody reading these, but it’s a big help with accountability for me…)

read

  • Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

    Even my tiny little Git server is occasionally throwing load and outbound network alerts, so I felt this:

    All of my sysadmin friends are dealing with the same problems. I was asking one of them for feedback on a draft of this article and our discussion was interrupted to go deal with a new wave of LLM bots on their own server. Every time I sit down for beers or dinner or to socialize with my sysadmin friends it’s not long before we’re complaining about the bots and asking if the other has cracked the code to getting rid of them once and for all. The desperation in these conversations is palpable.

listened

watched

cooked

Pretty light cooking week, since it was mostly just Ms22 and myself – we went to Taco Tuesday at our local since it was so damn nice - then had leftover Johnny Marzetti both Wednesday and Friday, to finish up that dish

photo

my car odometer rolled out of the 16 bit integer space this week

My car odometer rolled out of the 16 bit integer space this week

looking forward to

We’re going to be inching back into spring-like towards the end of next week, and I’m planning on busting the grill out of winter hibernation…