🎉 Week Notes 001
🗓️ // Dec 29, 2024 - Jan 04, 2025
I've adopted Jedda's week notes format to start the new year and like her will be publishing them on Saturdays1. I've managed to post at least something every day since moving to Bear Blog in September, but I think it's pretty helpful to have a couple of specific posts that you write every week. I was already doing my weekly Microcosm posts, and this will also let me document my casual media consumption.
Early on I didn't feel like I was as productive as I wanted to be over the holiday break, but I've done a fair amount of physical and digital organization in January. My office is an ongoing concern, but I made some real headway around my desk. I've also started prepping my old 2008 Mac Pro for an Open Core update. I've already received, flashed, and installed the cheap Metal compatible Nvidia card I ordered on eBay at the beginning of the week. Still need to pick up a cheap USB 2.0 hub to work around the USB 1.1 driver issue
I still haven't finished all my individual 2024 media posts from back in January and February. Hoping to make some more progress on that in the next couple days.
👾 Playing
- 🧙♂ Worked on keeping up on my Arena daily quests and finishing my last Foundations Premier Draft (3-3). Got to Gold 2 in Ranked (mostly with Mythic Mike's mono-black Skeleton/Demon deck), but didn't play enough the last couple of days to reach Platinum.
- 🧙♂ Only took me a couple days in the new season to get to Gold so Platinum should be pretty doable by the end of January as well given I won't be playing much Limited until the next set.
- I've been playing some of the mini crossword games on Apple News+ that I recently discovered and Crossword Jam+ from Apple Arcade. I still play the free daily NYT Games apps if I remember too.
- The Dec(k) Month The Second (2024) Decker game jam finished and I've been slowly trying out all the entries. As expected a wide range of quality, but definitely some really cool ones.
📚 Reading
- Finished James on the 29th a couple days after receiving it as a gift from my mom- such a good book. Probably the best book I read in 2024.
📺 Watching
- 📺 Wrapped up Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 4 and started in on Season 5. I've always enjoyed the crazy season-ending cliffhanger scenarios they've set up and their multi-episode commitment to resolving things in the next season. Jake and Rosa being framed and sent to prison was particularly inspired.
- 🍿 Finally watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with the kids (my third or fourth time personally) on New Year's Eve. Fell asleep right before the final challenge.
- 📺 Started watching Skeleton Crew with the family and everyone is loving it so far.
- 📺 Took advantage of Apple TV+'s free weekend to binge some Silo season 2 last night and today. Enjoyed having Steve Zahn join the cast as the lone survivor in the silo Juliette escaped to. Slow Horses season 4 is the other Apple show I'd like to watch while I can.
- 🍿 Watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with the family tonight and dozed off briefly late again. This is my least favorite book in the series, but I appreciate how much screen time Neville, Luna, and Dumbledore's Army got in the movie.
🎧 Listening
- Listened to a lot of Christmas playlist material.
- 🎙 Reconcilable Differences E249: Tally Ho 👍👍 I really cut back on my podcast listening during my holiday break, but particularly enjoyed Merlin and John discussing the YouTube series about restoring a century-old sailing yacht.
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Work-related Weeknotes tend to go out on Fridays, but Sunday through Saturday fits my personal week better.↩