Imua One (Weeknotes #25-08)
Monday was a bank holiday (Presidents’ Day) here in the States, which was very handy because we spent most of the weekend catching up on work and other chores.
We made it an even shorter week by starting the weekend a day and a half early and catching a flight to Orlando to spend a couple days with our good friends down there. It wasn’t real warm, but it was warmer than home so that’s nice. And we spent Saturday kicking around the theme parks at Universal.
✈️ While we were waiting for our flight out of CMH we spotted one of Southwest’s {linktopic:name=southwest-special-liveries.jpg&text=special liveries}, Imua One. I’ve seen a few of them in person before, but this was the first time I’d managed to snap a pic.
🍳 I normally don’t post food pictures but for some reason this week I was inspired to share snaps of and {linktopic:name=egg-sandwich.jpg&text=egg sandwich} I made, including the {linktopic:name=on-the-griddle.jpg&text=work in progress}, and people seemed to like it. Maybe more food pics? Nah.
Now Page Highlights
Here’s a recap of things that appeared on my /now page this week.
Web
I haven’t backed up the photos on my NAS in several years, so I started working on that this week. I’m not doing anything fancy here, though perhaps I should. I’m using the AWS CLI to copy my photos to S3 Glacier Deep Archive, which is highly durable and super cheap—about $1 per terrabyte per month.
Watching
We are continuing to enjoy weekly episodes of Paradise and eagerly tucked into the long-awaited season 3 premiere of The White Lotus.
We’re also filling some time catching up on Hacks Season 1. I started watching this a while back and quit after an episode or two, but it’s better than I remember.
Reading
The flights gave me some time to catch up on the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, one of my favorite magazines.
“So, You’ve Been Invaded: A French Resistance Survival Guide for the U.S.”, from The American Pamphleteer, is essential night table reading.
“The Death of Government Expertise” is a recent piece by Tom Nichols in The Atlantic, in which he reminds us that expertise is something to value, not to vilify. It can’t be overemphasized. I feel so strongly about this that I gave copies of his book to my kids when they went to college.
Aloha!