🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W44
2024-11-03 21:35
Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.
Family & Friends - visitors have all gone. It's been a busy month. It's been nice to share a very pivotal moment in my life with them (my sister literally listened in on my on-the-spot phone job interview at a corner shop carpark). It was nice to round out this week with dad. We just chilled, talked shit, ate more junk food than usual..
🏢 Work - Only 2 weeks to go in my current job. Things are winding down well. I couldn't ask for a better offboarding experience. I've had an amazing amount of positive feedback with a number of General Managers saying I'm always welcome back. One of my favourites was this, after sending an email out to a number of colleagues I had worked with over the years:
I am not sure if I am happier for you, or my husband to have such an awesome new worker.
Had no idea of that connection, so must've had an unexpected positive reference in there! No bridges have been burnt. In fact, I think I am strengthening them as I walk out.
🏃 Ran 55.31km / 1,987m profile
Couple flat ones and a hilly 30k on Sunday. Loved the Sunday one, getting up onto some higher altitudes again now the snow is dissipating. Got a bit scratchy bashing through some scrub of matagouri and briars. It's a route I've done before and keep going the wrong way. I've made a mental note to go the less scratchy way next time!
🥃 Visited dad's whiskey barrel at the Cardrona Distillery.
🖌️ Went to a zine workshop at our local library. Who would've thought sitting at a table with complete strangers playing with scissors and glue sticks could still be so fun. I'm totally inspired to do something in this space. My ones were pretty crap, but hey it was on the spot.
💻 Website
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Got listed in the Green Team on the 512KB Club with my landing page coming in at a tiny 54.10KB. I hope I can maintain that. I'm pretty happy with my simple style that is predominantly text, and I put a bit of effort into reducing image sizes.
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Joined the Static.Quest webring. It is nice to be a part of a group of sites with similar backend mindsets. I build my site with the Zola static site generator. I know SSGs aren't for everyone, but I love the tinkering as much as the writing.
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Added an ideas page which kind of reflects the benefits of using an SSG. I can tinker to my heart's content.
💻 Tools
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Brave browser - All the Vivaldi updates were driving me nuts so I'm giving Brave a crack. I'm really liking it. I've gone really plain, dropped all the fancy add-ons, using only the inbuilt blocking without uBlock Origin and it is working very well. Keyboard shortcuts are fine. Ticks all my boxes so far.
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yazi command line file explorer - Useful for quickly popping up when in the command line looking for files or simple moving of files.
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amfora Gemini client - Enjoying this terminal client to read gemlogs. Something soothing about these text only platforms.
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MS Image Resizer - Was useful on my work laptop for reducing my field photos to a size more appropriate so I can copy them to my own storage. The utility has a lot of options on size and compression, and renaming/replacing etc. Everything I needed.
📺 Watched a bunch of flicks with the old man. We're into pretty similar stuff so it was good to just chill at the end of the day with some rad flicks.
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We started with S. Craig Zhaler's Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete (two of my favourite movies in the past couple decades, and my favourite Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughan flicks EVER).
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I was keen for a spaghetti western so we watched The Great Silence (1968), another banger. A bit different to the usual western with the snow landscape throughout.
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We then we got discussing the similarities of all these to Tarantino, and how Sam Peckinpah was the Tarantino of his day. I hadn't heard of him or his movies. Turns out Peckinpah was an uncredited Production Assistant in the 1954 flick Riot in Cell Block 11, clearly an influence to Brawl in Cell Block 99! We closed the loop. We didn't watch that one, however we watched Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971).
Man what a binge! All of these just build and build to a killer final climax.
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