Weeknote #68 (20260111-20260117)

meta

This was an extremely long and frustrating week; the good news is I have moved through the despair phase and am fully into spite and anger: I will fix this <redacted, work> shit come hell or high water.

did

  • This was very much a work, work, short break, back for more work type of week
  • I did manage to row twice and get to the gym twice, go me!
  • I also got out into the yard on Saturday and took care of the last of the debris pile left over from the windstorm last month. I still need to bust the miter saw back out and cut some of the remaining large branches into firewood-sized chunks, but I already have a massive pile drying under a tarp, and at the rate I use firewood I expect I’m good for years at this point…

read

  • Still plucking away at Tiny Habits; finished Lauren Ipsum; started Charlie Stross’s A Conventional Boy
  • Not a great “read bookmarked stuff” week though, my queue is back up to 206 items

watched

  • Lasso rewatch continues apace, as does Criminal Minds – still picking our way through S13

cooked

looking forward to

I’m down in the Bay Area for a few days next week, for work — an area of the world I haven’t visited in quite a long time. I’m also going to get to meet all the rest of the folks on my team that I haven’t met in person yet, so that’s cool.

A special “not looking forward to…” is that Mx19 returns to college at the end of next week. I feel like we’ve just gotten readjusted to having them around, too…