πΊπ¦ Week Notes 009
ποΈ // Feb 23, 2025 - Mar 1, 2025
It was a fairly unexciting week personally, other than work deciding to rearrange seating arrangments while my supervisor is away on vacation. Not thrilled to be in my fourth spot in less than a year.
ποΈ Noticed that my microblogging has dropped off a bit since getting back into 750 Words.
πͺ¦ Gene Hackman was found dead at home (along with his wife and a dog) this week. There were no obvious signs of foul play, but it's mysterious as heck and had been dead a week when discovered.
πΊπ¦ Trump and Vance ambushed Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in what was supposed to be a deal for mineral rights. My Representative, MIchael Baumgarnter) said Zelenskyy should resign so I sent him my first email demanding an apology to his constituents for disrespecting our intelligence and reminding him that Spokane has approximately 50,000 Slavic immigrants (the majority of which are Ukrainian, but there are also many folks from Russia too) living here.
18F, the amazing tech consulting government team that has done tremendous work to save money and improve web applications for the US Government, was canned by DOGE.
π Gonzaga handled USF pretty easily and secured the second seed heading into the WCC tournament. Super-talented, but such a weirdly inconsistent team. I hope they advance in the tournament and get a third shot at SMC.
πΎ Playing
- π§ββ A combination of Limited and later Constructed as I tried to get to Platinum before the end of the season (I stalled out at Gold 2).
Projects
750 Words continues to be a productive addition to my routine. I expect most of my written blog posts to originate there going forward.
Started on our taxes, but need to buckle down next week for sure.
π Reading
- ππ§ Started the Source Code audiobook and have been flying though it.
πΊ Watching
πΏ The Gorge was a lot of fun! ππ
πΏ Nausica and the Valley of the Wind ππ I got a kick out of how similar one of my daughters looks to Nausica this time around.
πΊ Started up on Brooklyn Nine-nine Season 5 again after a long break. I needed some comfort viewing after everything that's going on in this country.
πΊ Finished watching Dark Matter ππ on Apple TV+ and loved how mind-bending it got in the last couple of episodes. Another classic series in the SF sub-genre Genius men who invent the apocalypse instead of getting therapy.
- πΊ Severance S2E7: πππ (ratings system broken once again). Best. Episode. Yet.
π§ Listening
β½οΈ A few Spurs podcasts here and there, but no real standouts.
π A lot of time on the Source Code audiobook.
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