Weeknote #59 (20251102-20251108)

meta

Still in onboard-and-learn-all-the-things mode at the new job. Between that and the early darkness (and everyfuckingthingelse in the wider world), it’s feeling very much like hunker-down season is upon us.

did

• Thursday, I was finally able (almost a year after hurting my shoulder) to get into the correct position to do barbell back squats and I felt comfortable enough there to do multiple sets! With weight! Still nowhere near the level I was at before, but I was pretty stoked, things are getting better
• Friday, after seeing the news about James Watson dying, I let out One Good Toot; in response, somebody linked me to “Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin”, which I hadn’t seen previously
• Also Friday, I took a long lunch and went to the cheesesteak popup out at Bryn Mawr Vineyards — it was good to see Chef Jon briefly, and the cheesesteak, as always, was amazing

read

• Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation was a great read

listened

• Maggie Rogers, “In The Living Room”

watched

• Still binging Criminal Minds with TheWife
• Still MLS Finals season; we’re trying to watch all the matches we can… which is a lot of matches

cooked

• Monday: tomato soup, broiled cheese lid
• Tuesday: cronchy tacos
• Thursday: black cod with linguica

photo

As I mentioned above, the weather and the time of year and just everything is making it very clear that soup season is well underway. This week we had roasted tomato garlic soup, with a chedder crouton lid — basically an open-face grilled cheese floating on the soup. It was exactly the right thing that night.

looking forward to

Sounds like there’s a pretty good chance I’ll be in Austin (for work) pretty soon…