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Week Notes No. 24

By Justin G. on 24SEP29SUN , updated: 24OCT13SUN

Quick recap before the heatwave arrives.

Almanac

Sunrise is right at 7 am, and sunset just after 7 pm; about twelve hours of daylight, and getting less day by day. It is sunny and the daytime highs range from mid-80s to mid-90s. Nighttime lows are upper 50s and low 60s. The middle of the night will be well illuminated by a waning but still gibbous moon.

SEP23MON

Running. It keeps getting better.

First bread this week was a beautiful focaccia, destined for garden fresh sandwiches. I will simply make this bread again.

SEP24TUE

Not my normal wfh day. I think I am still reeling from just how bad the commute was the other day.

SEP25WED

Skipping the office altogether this week. Wednesday is often my backup day if I can’t make it on Tuesday. Not this week.

Running continues to be perfectly reasonable. I think I will need to begin strategizing for my winter campaign. Winter running is always a struggle. I probably will have my best luck during that afternoon, and in the proper clothes. Once it looks like the weather is going to turn, I am going to begin planning for it. It is on my mind.

SEP26THU

I have nothing to say about Thursday.

SEP27FRI

Running. I could do more. Maybe I should do more.

Lunch out with a friend the I haven’t seen in months. They’ve been out for much of the summer, and I am a little nervous. But it’s unwarranted, we are back to our old selves again, just checking in and sharing about our lives.

SEP28SAT

Pizza night. Second bread of the week. I am getting a handle on my wood pellet fired pizza oven, but it is still quite a hot cooker. Maybe I should throttle the air flow a bit, or R suggests maybe don’t fully occupy the floorspace of the oven, which puts the pizza quite close to the flame. I will iterate and try again. The pizza tonight is delicious, I love both the wood toasted flavor, and how incredibly inflated the dough becomes in extreme heat. For tonights pizza I attempt a pizza diavola, but didn’t do any research, so it’s good but misses the mark.

SEP29SUN¹

Prepping dried foods for backpacking next weekend. Dehydrating things in the oven, and in the dehydrator. The main goal: don’t bring stupid too much food.

Media

New section.

Podcasts

Panic World S1E2. Panic World is a new podcast about the moral panics that originate on the internet. It’s from the makers of Garbage Day. There were a couple of things that I noted about Ryan and Kat’s discussion, but I think the top line item was the irreverence that they projected about all the abuse that they receive via DM. It was about the weird (and tired) attacks on immigrants in Ohio, where the VP candidate made up stories about them eating pets. There was a lot of stuff to talk about.

Panic World S1E3. It was about smartphones rewiring our brains. I mean yeah, but also they’re useful, so like everything in moderation? Also good discussions.

Movies

Tomb Raider (2018). I’m too tired to write a long review. It was fun. Also. Do films always have to be so indulgently gratuitously grandiose to tell stories? Where does the one-up-manship end? The moon, galactic core, or the heat death of the universe? It’s absurd, pointless, and tiresome. Maybe try telling stories where it’s the smallest things that pose the necessary challenges for characters to overcome.

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