Weeknote #37 (20250601-20250607)

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This was the week Mx18 graduated from high school. Very watersheddy, much feels. We had some family in town starting Thursday night, and by Saturday night, I was pretty peopled out. Hoping for a quiet upcoming week…

did

• We started the week out by finally completing a long-deferred project: hanging a barn quilt on our chimney. The details of attaching a chunk of plywood to brick was just enough intimidation to make it easy to keep procrastinating on this, but it’s finally done — and it only took 3 trips to 2 different hardware stores and the purchase of a new drill (because prior to this, we’d never had a strong need for a hammer drill…) See below for a picture of how it turned out!
• The barn quilt was painted by my ever-crafty father, so having them visit this week was a great impetus towards finally getting it mounted 😝
• Work-wise, it was a fairly uneventful week; I took Friday off because of family being in town
• Note to self: these end up working a lot better when you’re disciplined enough to update the in-progress note every night and/or morning, goofball

exercise & shoulder recovery

• Sunday: nothing
• Monday: morning stretches, afternoon ran C25K W6D1
• Tuesday: morning stretches, afternoon gym
• Wednesday: morning stretches, didn’t run because my knees still hurt from Monday…
• Thursday: morning stretches, no gym because family
• Friday: morning stretches, no run because family
• Saturday: skipped stretches too

Getting back on the horse next week is probably gonna suck a whole lot… but I also have a new pair of running shoes arriving, which I’m hoping help out with some of the knee/shin pain I’ve been experiencing on the runs.

read

• Things End: Punk Planet, Year 13

  I don’t know how to end except to say that things end. Punk Planet came to an end in August of 2007. It was the hardest day. The ache in me from it is still very real. But I didn’t end. The people who contributed their talents and ideas and love and care to the magazine didn’t end. The people influenced by the magazine, and the people who’d go on to be influenced by those people didn’t end.

  Things end.

  But that’s not always the end.

• kill the metrics in your head

  Creating a thing and putting it out into the world is a vulnerable act. Not knowing how people are responding to it, even whether they’re seeing it at all, can be lonely and alienating.

  …

  When you have numbers to look at, it’s easy to care only about the numbers. If we want to truly care, we gotta kill the metrics in our heads.

watched

• We caught up on NCIS and NCIS: Origins, and so we’ve returned to our almost complete binge watch of …NCIS: New Orleans

cooked

• sausages, Monday
• grilled pork tenderloin and prosciutto-wrapped asparagus, Wednesday
• grilled albacore with rojo chimichurri, Thursday

…whole lot of dining out this week, due to the whole “family in town” thing…

photo

The barn quilt I mentioned above, mounted on our chimney.

looking forward to

A hopefully quiet couple weeks before I’m in Seattle for a bit at the end of the month…