🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W45

2024-11-10 13:35

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.

🩸 Health - Been sick since Tuesday, and still battling. Not sure what's going on. These last few months I keep getting hit. I attempted to work Thursday but called it quits halfway through the day. I've just been resting. Best I can muster is groceries or mowing the lawn.

🏢 Work

• Not an ideal way to finish my second last week of work. If I make it back tomorrow I'll be readjusting my goalposts for closing out projects. Hopefully my head is less cloudy. If I'm like this I won't be able to go in.

• The week prior I visited my new employer to drop off some documents. The transition feels very right. The banter has begun. We're all mountain bikers and runners (who isn't in Queenstown?), sounds like they're planning a mountain bike for our Christmas doo. They gave me my uniform (polos and t-shirts hoorah! Goodbye chinos and ironed button shirts!) and signed me up for my first course with CEDIA - Cabling and Infrastructure which I'm pumped for.

🏃 Ran zilch - nothing - zero - therefore, no profile this week! I'll leave last week's in the header. I got out for a very small walk.

📝 My dad, at 72 years old, posted his first blog on Pika! I read it in RSS!

🖌️ I drew a Butt-head data visualisation of my sick. It was a weird idea I got in the middle of the night. I wanted to draw and try water colours, and I remember my school days I could draw Beavis & Butthead so why not start with something familiar? I think I need to choose a different outline pen as the water bled it a bit. The size of each loogie splatter is meant to be how bad it was that day, and I tried to depict the mucus colours too. Gross right? I also dug out the Beavis and Butt-head Hock-A-Loogie game which is in line with the loogies I've been hocking all week.

💻 Website - A bit happening here as I find it is easy to muster while sick - not physical or mentally draining.

• I added colour to the tags in my links page (they're not clickable, but I like the style). I added the appropriate code to the bash script that converts all my bookmarks, and updated my CSS file.

• Related - with an influx of links/bookmarks/curation post sharing, I suggested on Mastodon that folk start using #bukmarks as a hashtag, inline with the bukmarks.club, for another way of following along. We'll see if it sticks. I'll use it anyway.

• Added a collapsible "Daily Notes" section to this here weeknotes down the bottom of this post. It's just a bunch of quick-capture notes I'm taking through the week - thoughts, TODOs, reference notes or whatever. I do it all offline and just copy into here when I do my Weeknotes. More on the workflow below.

• Added inline code highlighting.

💻 Tools

• zellij terminal multiplexer - I've been using a lot more command line tools lately so it's nice to have a nice terminal workspace where I can quickly switch between the different applications. I'm really enjoying keyboard-only operations and full-screen modes. It's such a pleasant experience.

• helix editor, obsidian and syncthing - Loving this setup for synced note-taking across my laptop and Android. Helix is a super powerful vim-like text editor I use on my laptop, Obsidian on my mobile, and syncthing does the obvious. It's a super powerful setup given I can use plugins in Obsidian and call my own scripts in helix. I'll write a workflow post about this at some stage.

📺 Watched

• Zatoichi (2003) - Revisited this gem. I love pretty much all of Takeshi Kitano's movies, especially when he's acting. This was again a perfect mix of violence, humour, song and dance. Kitano pulls it off every time.

• The Substance (2024) - Loved it. Highly entertaining.

🎧 Listening to...

• Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger - Classic.

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