weekly notes 001
this format is inspired by jeddacp. i wanted an easy way to get started and this seemed like a good one.
updates
- last week i quit an awful job. the pay was bad, the place was poorly organized and work required a level of physical activity i wasn't prepared for (also the workload was so intense i wasn't able to take my lunch break, which is. how to say. illegal). so i took the leap and quit. i'm glad i did, because around the time i made the decision i also got sick and wouldn't have had the energy to deal with medical appointments and sick leave certificates. i'm better now but i need to do some active recovery, because going from 35k steps/day + heavy lifting to lying in bed with the flu in the span of 24 hours... actually did more harm than good. i thought i'd be recovering but i'm just hurting everywhere. i'm a bit better now and decided to stick to 7k steps/day for the time being
- i sent out a couple of cards through postcrossing, to ukraine, japan and germany. i started postcrossing two months ago and i love it, finding cards in the mail has been the highlight of my otherwise pretty terrible days.
plans
- participate in the small web july challenge to finally get started on my personal website on neocities. in the future i want to write more about re-discovering the indie web, but for now i want to keep it practical. i've been sitting on a blank page for about a year now, with some ideas for what to do with it, and by the end of the month i hope to have at least some basic structure
- finish the giraffe plushie i've been working on as a birthday gift for a friend
media
- i didn't have the time or energy for much of anything, but i'm currently re-reading terry pratchett's night watch and i want to finish it by the end of this week
- i also have regular movie nights with a friend but this week it's been on hiatus. we're halfway through season 1 of andor
- ed zitron's latest better offline episode and why should anyone learn & use morse code (i've been looking into ham radio as a potential hobby)
that's it for now. i'm actually writing this on a thursday because i didn't want to put off starting this blog any longer, so i'll include any updates in the next weekly notes.