Week Notes, 2025-04-20
Weekly Features from April 14th - April 20th:
🤒 Last week's trip to Iowa had an uneven balance of passengers. I drove by myself to Iowa, but on the way back, I brought along a cold or seasonal allergies. Said illness lingered around most of the week, with today being the first day in a while where I am feeling normal. I no longer have that lovely coat of phlegm on my tongue that dulls everything I eat or drink, and my sinuses aren't as stuffed up anymore. The bad news about the cold is that I was more or less homebound all week, so my "meatspace" socializing was quite light. Shoulder rehab and dentist appointments were either canceled or rescheduled, respectively. My only major social event was attending Pascha/Easter services on Saturday 04-19 and today.
📸 I have committed myself, in writing, to use Glass as my main photo sharing site. My reasons for doing so suddenly came to me during a shower yesterday, and I wrote them down here. Now I just have to back up my public words with actions, and add photos to my admittedly small profile. Easy enough, right?
☦️ Today is Pascha, or Easter. There are traditional greetings for Pascha, all of which translate to, "Christ is risen!" "Truly, He is risen!" You can pick a language, and likely find a translation of the Paschal Greeting. Yes, even Klingon: Hu’ta’ QISt! Hu’bejta’!
✅ Here's a public reminder to myself that I should catch up on my Doctor Who backlog.
Other Things to Note from The Week That Was:
📺 Watching:
- Space Journey / Cosmonautics Day Special by BASIC, YouTube, L’atelier de Musique, Ep022
- Low Calorie High Protein Japanese Rice Bowl Recipe, YouTube, Chef’s Labo
- Junior Prom (Rifftrax)
🎧 Listening:
- Xi Jinping tours Southeast Asia and European travelers cancel US trips, Monocle Radio: The Monocle Daily
- Episode 273, Flow State
- Episodes 741 & 742: April 18, 2025, Brainwashed Radio
- How can sports venues enhance our cities?, Monocle Radio: The Urbanist
📖 Reading:
- Why Doctor Who’s latest robot threat is a dangerous AI: ’this is what’s happening’, The Verge
- Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend Asks That Her Boyfriend’s Son Receive The “Upmost Respect”, Defector
- The 2026 Subaru Outback Might Be A Huge Mistake, The Autopian
- How to win an argument with a toddler, Seth’s Blog
- The Case for a New MTV, Defector
💫 Creating:
- The "Glass Tacks" blog post, mentioned above.
🗄Organizing:
- Maintenance on newsletter subscriptions, and overdue deletions of Discord servers I haven't used in months.
- Cleaned up some blog post formatting to delete a duplicate link for sending me an email.
- Plans are under way to streamline my watch collection, once again.
🌾 Socializing:
- Apart from church services yesterday and today, the only substantial social event I participated in was the All-Call from Cornell College.
🧪 Testing:
- I accepted I am not really a PKMS kind of person, so Anytype got yeeted. I still have my account credentials if I change my mind.
🗃️ Work:
- The 70-20-10 Plan was submitted on Friday 04-18, though as it turns out my manager changed his mind on the deadline. Instead of it being on that Friday, it won't be until mid-May! We'll still talk about it this week.
🏥 Health:
- See first paragraph in entry.