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Week Notes No. 23

By Justin G. on 24SEP22SUN

I have the worst commute, take a morning off to go hiking, and some other ordinary things.

Almanac

Temperatures are much lower for the work week; low 70s for highs and low to mid 50s for overnight lows. It is more cloudy for the first half of the week. The weekend is warmer, back to the mid 80s.

The days are getting shorter, sunrise is just before 7, and sunset is just after 7; a little over 12 hours of daylight. The equinox is Sunday. The next full moon is Tuesday, and it’s up all night: bright nights if they aren’t clouded over.

SEP16MON

A few hydrogenated oxyde droplets in the air during the run this morning. I wouldn’t quite call it rain, maybe just a heavy mist or fog. Run was fast and smooth and easy. Much cooler temperatures today, and cloudy. Almost cold on the ears.

While out for my run, I spotted a rolling laptop desk. I’m going to use it for a lectern aka mobile dictionary stand. San José provides.

SEP17TUE

I am in the worst commute since before the pandemic. That’s the last 5 plus years and I don’t remember what that previous commute was. I look forward to not remembering this one too. It was just unendingly slow: 86 minutes. I average 11 miles per hour for the first hour. It could be worse, it could always be worse. At least I had a snack before I left.

SEP18WED

Work has been too much for the past week and a half, but has finally eased up. I haven’t, but it has, so I choose to take advantage of that this morning and go for a hike at the nearby park. It’s quiet and not too warm and just what I need. I should do this more often, maybe check in on the nearest big parks once a month or so. In the evening there is a spectacular sunset because of the weather system passing by far to the north.

SEP19THU

NMS at night. There are a lot of options for things to do in NMS, and none of them are strongly incentivized. You do them all at your own will, like life. They must be remembered by you as well, there is somewhat less hand holding in this game than there is in others, and I appreciate that. J, my Thursday night gaming partner, is focusing on building his base at the moment, but slowly. I think that after I finish the expedition, which I am the last to do, I will begin working on my pilot hiking loop. It’s a folk programmers way.

SEP20FRI

I have done it, I have gotten my lazy butt out running 3 times this week. I am stretching the definition of running to include the mental health hike on Wednesday. Each run is getting easier, and I will remember that for next week, because next week it will be hotter and I should aim to do my running in the morning.

SEP21SAT

A and I go into central SJ to visit best used bookstore in the area, we have a pretty big pile of books to sell; they buy most of them. We use the proceeds to bring a couple of new to us books back home. We also jaywalk across the street to grab a barely early lunch before heading home. It was a nice time.

SEP22SUN¹

Chores and errands, but you don’t want to read about that. Or, I don’t have anything interesting to say about it at the moment.

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