Weeknotes #24-18

My Worst Driving Experience Ever

Here’s what happened during the week of April 29 to May 05, 2024.

• 🍬 After having more unhappy days than happy ones at the office lately, I’m making an effort to choose happiness. I was mostly successful this week.

• 💻 Thanks to my personal app concierge, Marco, for introducing me to Daisy Disk. It’s a one-time $10 app and is a nice add to my Mac Mini.

• 🌶️ My daughter got some hot sauces for me to try recently. It may seem strange, but I’ve been enjoying these with tuna salad. Here are my favorites:

  • Yellowbird Blue Agave Sriracha is a sweet take on an old favorite.
  • Yellowbird Classic Serrano delivers great flavor and a little kick without being too hot.
  • Tabañero Original is another mild hot sauce with a unique flavor.

• 🫖 Fun site of the week: Caro’s tea menu. She wrote a post about it too.

• 📷 I’ve always struggled to find inspiration for my photography living in the suburbs. This Reddit thread has some good ideas.

• 🧑‍💻 Made some web updates:

  • Updated the diagrams (here and here) to better reflect current state
  • Tweaked the margins and padding on the navigation tabs to improve appearance
  • Played with colors (still not real happy with them tho)
  • Changed fonts (yet again)

• ✍️ #WeblogPoMo2024 started this week. Instead of a single theme for the month, I’m going with a different theme for each day of the week. I’m hoping it’ll help me keep fresh ideas coming and clear out my backlog.

• 🕘 According to this poll morning or noon local time is the best time to post, so I’m giving that a try.

• 🎧 You may recall that I ran a 4-miler a couple weeks ago, but you probably didn’t notice that I destroyed my Beats Solo wireless headphones that day. I like wearing headphones when I walk (or run) because they work better for me than earbuds. I found a very inexpensive replacement on Amazon, which arrived this week. They’re great! Exactly what I need and fraction of the cost of another pair of new Beats!

• 🖊️ I ordered a nice pair of binoculars from B&H and they included (free gift with purchase) a Nitecore NTP31 Aluminum Alloy Tactical Bolt Action Pen. Apparently you can use it for self-defense. Why do I need this exactly? Do they think I’ll be taking up spycraft now?

• 🥏 Went to Indianapolis to watch Indy Red play New York Gridlock. When we arrived in Indianapolis I encountered the worst full stop drivers full stop anywhere. I’ve driven in Chicago (apocalyptic traffic) Boston (purposeful madness) and Cincinnati (where every day is speed week) but nothing like Indy. Red lights? Lane markings? Right of way? All totally optional. Swerving all over the place, totally oblivious to other drivers? Check. Sudden stops and near misses? Check. Turning left to cut off oncoming traffic? Check. And these weren’t isolated cases; they’re clearly the local customs. It reminded me of open season on the LA Freeway.

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Interesting Reads

• “Nobuhle’s Music is a Conduit for the Physical and the Spiritual” by Uzoma Ihejirika (The Native)

• “Managing Up” by Edward Zitron

• “Elon Musk is abandoning EVs” by Joan Westenberg

• Drops of God, Volumes 17 and 18 by Tadashi Agi

• Too many #WeblogPoMo2024 posts to list them all!

Watching

• Loot S2E5

Happy May! Cheers, Y’all!