This was a boring week (Weeknotes

Rethinking a Couple of Apps

📝 I’ve been using Bear for a little while now, and it certainly beats the pants off of Microsoft OneNote. But I’m not sure it’s any better than Apple Notes for what I need. And it’s built in and available everywhere with no fuss. So I’m switching. Again.

✅ But it’s not all Apple all the time. I tried for a while to use Apple Reminders to manage my personal task list and it just is not cutting it. This week I came across Notion, which is free for individual use and gives me a kanban board that I can customize.

Misc Notes

📷 Traded in a couple of lenses this week and picked up a 90mm prime. Had a good experience working with MPB for the first time.

🪠 Our kitchen sink backed up this week so I had to take everything apart and snake the drain. That was a nasty mess, but I got it cleared and didn’t have to hire a plumber so that’s nice.

🌱 Spring time means we’re getting a lot of rain and the grass is growing like crazy. The neighbors on both sides are retired so they mow whenever the sun shines and makes my house look like the abandoned one on the block. It’s hard to keep up!

🍕 Our friends from Maryland came to town and stayed with us this week. Always great to catch up. We played some pickleball and made pizzas from scratch one night.

🏭 Things are getting a little less chaotic at the office lately, and my anxiety levels are coming down. I don’t like the sense of dread I’ve been having about the work week, and that’s been steadily improving so I think that’s good.

🏃‍♂️ Last Sunday I ran the Ohio State 4 Miler and messed up my knee in the process. This week I saw a doctor about it and I have to go for an MRI next week to see if I did any damage requiring surgery. It’s been feeling better so I’m hopeful that it’ll sort itself out.

📝 I’m committing to attempting to complete Anne’s Weblog Posting Month challenge during the month of May. I’m not so much worried about keeping up with the blogging as with having something to say. I still need to decide upon a theme.

Reading

“Free the Trump Trial Transcripts” by Errol Louis (New York)

Grain magazine, just the free first issue. Not sure I want to drop $35 for lifetime access though, whatever that means.

Came across this cache of old radio books that could be useful.

“The biggest threat facing your team, whether you’re a game developer or a tech founder or a CEO, is not what you think” by Doc Burford

“Content or creation?” by Joan Westenberg

Watching

I’ve finished watching the first two episodes of The Gentlemen on Netflix. What can one say but “Guy Ritchie”?

Let’s go make a good week, shall we?