🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W03

2025-01-19 22:41

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

Currently: ⛅️ 🌡️+15°C 🌬️←7km/h

🩸 Health - Hip didn't feel great early in the week. I think I overdid it with running (5,000m of vert will do that). I knew what to do. Rest. Get the roller out. It's good now so looking forward to the week to come. Building my routine of morning stretches again for the back. Still not 100% after all the bad beds when in Aus, but it's getting there.

🏢 Work - Not the busiest week. Had time to hit the books again. I'm really enjoying the study. I was sent out to a house-call job by myself and was able to sort it all out. Client and boss was very happy. It's been two months since my start day (minus 2 weeks leave) and I feel like I'm stepping into the role nicely.

🏃 Ran 28.6km / 425m profile - Small and flat week this week to cater for the sore hip.

🌱 Harvested the garlic finally. It was overdue. I hadn't been down the allotment for a while so wasn't sure what to expect. The yield wasn't terrible but it does look a bit dried out with the dry spell we've had. I'm sure I'll get a bit out of it. I chop and dropped some old broad beans and other grasses and random things that have popped up down there. I haven't got a game plan yet, but will try and sort something out soon.

🗓️ I've been nudging my way back into GTD again, keeping it simple by tracking a "Doing" list, rather than a "To-Do" list to keep me concentrated on what I've decided to do in my spare time. I'm deriving that list out of a "Weekly Review" where I simply:

• look back a week via calendar, email, photos, notes (and doing these reflections) to determine if any actions were triggered
• look forward 2 weeks via calendar, brain dump anything else on my mind, decide my "Doing" list.

📺 I mounted the TV to the wall. Mounting TVs is one of the more common tasks we do at my new job, so it was good to put my new skills to the test. I had to go off-center which was ok because it's in a corner nook of the room and needs brackets that angle out anyway. Going off center meant I was able to use the studs to anchor the big bugger in. I'm happy with the result.

🖌️ Finished Januartuary, where I drew and blogged something every day for 7 days. It was fun to draw again. I will keep this up. I found a local monthly Community Draw event which I will try to get to in February.

💻 Website - I added all the directories I'm part of to the bottom of the main page. Hopefully I got them all.. I did it off memoryy. While I did it I clicked through a heap of sites and updated my RSS feed as I found a bunch of gems.

I bought a domain, zkbro.com - have some ideas what I'll do with it, and in fact the whole "own-your-web" thing, but for now it's just sitting there.

I'm doing a lot of churning on personal website setups and have some ideass brewing. I've been tinkering in the background.

💻 Tools

• wttr.in - Weather from the terminal. Typing curl wttr.in/queenstown?format=2 gives me ⛅️ 🌡️+15°C 🌬️←7km/h right now, but without ?format=2 it gives you a 3 day outlook. I have a bunch of other websites I use if I really want to dive into the weather (learnt from paragliding... it's kinda important), but this is pretty nifty anyway. Gives me ideas of embedding weather into posts (see top of page).

• jellyfin - Set up my music server on Debian for the first time. It was a bit of a pain (see "Daily Notes" below) but I got there, and definitely worth it.

• finamp - This is the jellyfin client for Android I use to stream or download my music from my laptop. It is a nice UI and has everything I need.

📺 Watched

• Monkey Man (2024) - DNFd - Taking too long to do anything, with no building of character. No thanks.

🎧 Listening to... -

• GNU World Order - A delightful "audio show" I found by clicking the random button on the fediring.net webring. It's a one-man-band talking about linux and all. He uploads each episode as .ogg and .opus files, which are new to me. Apparently ogg files are derived from jargon from the computer game Netrek which I had a quick game of out of curiousity and wow it looks a load of fun.

So, related, music-wise, Paul Kelly's From Little Things, Big Things Grow came up in my shuffle and I can't help but think about all my little "web dives".

A few Trip Hop albums this week - a genre I'm diving a bit deeper into. The guest appearances grabbed my attention when looking some of these up.

• UNKLE - Psyence Fiction (1998) - These guys seem to have a few connections. Ears pricked up when I heard Richard Ashcroft from The Verve in Lonely Soul. Doubling up with...

• UNKLE - Never, Never, Land (2003) - Solid again. I've only started listening today, maybe deeper dive next week. Joshe Holme from Queens of the Stoneage is in Safe in Mind (Please Get This Gun From Out My Face).

• Tricky - Nearly God (1996) - Another fab trip hop album, collaboration with the likes of Björk and Martina Topley-Bird (REALLY digging her stuff too).

Currently reading across the weird web:

• Blogging with Friction
• sadgirl.online links
• Inspiral-web
• Conscience Round
• xxiivv webring
• blog.txt
• Karl Bartel's Website
• Netrek Nexuss

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