🦠 Week Notes 007
🗓️ // Feb 9, 2025 - Feb 15, 2025
This has been the week of sickness for our whole family. It started with my younger son Nathan, hit Mary next, and then worked its way through everyone in the family except me.
- The highlight of the week was definitely my brother and his wife coming into town for a visit and my sister deciding to fly in as well. Unfortunately, I was the only one member of my family who was able to attend our planned dinner at my Mom's on Friday since everyone else was still in various stages of being sick.
- 🐶 Hunter and Echo are doing well and settling into their crate at night for longer sleeps between outside trips. Nowhere near potty trained yet, but baby steps. Had a good visit to the vet on Friday and the pups were super comfortable traveling in their crate and waiting outside in the car (briefly) while we took care of paperwork.
- ☃️ More snow and slightly warmer temperatures arrived on Friday and it looks we can expect some more Saturday afternoon.
👾 Playing
- 🧙♂ Played my first Aetherdrift Premier draft and went 5-3 with Houston's help. Started my next draft, but have only played a couple games so far. This deck didn't come together as well, so doubt I'll be able to win much more with it.
- 🧙♂ Really like the new Achievements functionality Wizards has added to Arena. There's an excellent variety and range of challenges and I find the cosmetics appealing.
Projects
- 📝 Realized I still have a lifetime membership on 750 Words and got setup on v2 so I can get back to free-form journaling and chase a new 100-day streak.
- Worked out a pandoc-based solution for converting Magic the Gathering web story episodes into epubs that I can read on my phone. Think I might do Bloomburrow next so Liana and the other girls can enjoy it as well.
- Curious about making a simple Gamebook/Choose Your Own Adventure ebook using pandoc. eBooks made with epub has some javascript capabilities.
- Intrigued to create my own week map based on Gina Trapani's work and maybe help some of my relatives set up their own as well.
📚 Reading
- 🧙♂📚 Read about half of the Aetherdrift web episode stories released by Wizards of the Coast after figuring out how to combine them into an epub.
- 🗓 Hadn't looked at my 750 Words archives in a long time and have enjoyed going back through the most recent ones from 2017 the week my youngest was born the last couple days.
- Very interested in listening to the new Bill Gates memoir that came out this month because Wil Wheaton is the audiobook's narrator. Having heard five minutes of the opening prologue read by Gates himself it was crystal clear how much a professional elevates the material.
📺 Watching
- 🍿 Howl's Moving Castle 👍👍 Continued the Miyazaki viewing expedition with the family and went back to one I like whole-hearted for our Sunday night movie.
- 📺 Binged the first 8 episodes of Disney+'s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 1 👍👍 Love what they're doing with this Gen-Z alternate MCU take on the Peter Parker story.
- 📺 Severance S2E5: Trojan's Horse 👍👍 Not quite as good as last week, but still top-tier "mysterious and important" entertainment.
🎧 Listening
- ⚽️🎙 Listened to a few Spurs podcasts this week and hats off to Danny Kelly for the Valentines Day episode and AI songs from the 3-J's that he came up with.
- I wish Overcast made it easier to export episode links, I looked into it briefly, but when I tried it the links seem to be Overcast rather than original.
- 🎧 Listened to the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man collected music playlist I found on Spotify- the theme song and musical selection on the show is pretty solid.