Weeknote #41 (20250629-20250705)

meta

I despite this holiday more and more every year. I’m happy we’re (mostly) past it, although if past experience is any guide, we’ve still got a couple weeks of far-too-frequent random booming to go.

did

  • Another one of those “just a week” weeks, mostly
  • Feeling undermotivated at work, which I’m hoping the three day weekend helps with, a little?
  • Via connections too complicated to explain here, TheWife and I ended up watching the Timbers beat the NE Revs 2-1 …from a suite. It was a pretty good view, I would def watch a match from a suite again!

exercise & shoulder recovery

I’m still kinda struggling to get back on the horse here, after the week in Seattle, combined with the increasing heat, totally disrupted my routines. I did my PT stretches most days, hit the gym a couple times, and totally failed to lace up my running shoes.

Better next week? Let’s see.

read

You’ve probably seen this make the rounds; yes, it’s long and a little repetitive and ramble-ly, but it’s also pretty much 100% zeitgeist capture — Make Fun of Them:

Why, exactly, are we meant to show these people respect? Because they run a company that provides a continually-disintegrating service? Because that service has such a powerful monopoly that it’s difficult to leave it if you’re interacting with other people or businesses?

I think it’s because we live in Hell. The modern tech ecosystem is so utterly vile. Every single day our tech breaks in new and inventive ways, our iPhones resetting at random, random apps not accepting button presses, our Bluetooth disconnecting, our word processors harassing us to “try and use AI” while no longer offering us suggestions for typos, and our useful products replaced with useless shit, like how Google’s previously-functional assistants were replaced with generative AI that makes them tangibly worse so that Google can claim it has 350 million monthly active Gemini users.

listened

This is a great Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes cover.

watched

Still grinding the last season NCIS: New Orleans; it’s the 2020/Covid hits season, and it’s a trip.

cooked

  • grilled hamburgers, with a caprese salad on Monday
  • roast chicken (on the grill), with a little side salad, on Wednesday
  • seared albacore (on the grill), with a rojo chimichurri on the side, on Thursday
  • grilled sausages and hot dogs, on Friday