Weeknotes No. 25-29

Here’s what happened during the week of July 14–20, 2025.

Weekend in New York

The spousal unit and I took a three-day weekend trip to New York.

🚇 The thing that most struck me during this visit was OMNY, a contactless tap-to-pay system for the subway. (It’s not new; it was rolled out system wide in 2021.) No more Metro Card, no app to install, just tap and go. It makes riding the subway that much easier.

🛍️ What trip to The Big Apple would be complete without some shopping? Even though I’m not much of a shopper, I do enjoy walking around SoHo. I even picked up a few shirts at Uniqlo.

🍝 My wife aren’t foodies, so fancy restaurants are lost on us. But we did enjoy a nice meal with an old friend at Felice on Hudson. We found really good Cobb Salads at Mangia SoHo and some decent pizza at My Pie Pizzeria Romana.

🎢 On Friday we decided to venture out of Manhattan to the nether regions known as Brooklyn—Coney Island, to be specific. It’s at the end of a very long subway ride that takes about an hour. There, we were greeted by sun, sand, surf, and a lot of visitors. We walked the boardwalk, watched people ride the Wonder Wheel and play games, and even stopped for a margarita. Really fun place!

🖼️ We the late afternoon Friday at to the Metropolican Museum of Art.

Watching

I resumed season 1 of Foundation, which I had started a year or more ago then stopped. It's starting to get interesting!

I finally got around to finishing season 1 of Severance. Based on all the hype, I was expecting a bit more oomph, but I’m in for season 2.

Web Stuff

💻 Some major changes are coming to my little corner of the web. As part of this little project, I registered a new domain, and will retire a couple of the current ones.

👷 I’m also starting to learn how to use 11ty for generating my site content. I hope to have something I can share in the next couple of weeks.

What does this mean for my omg.lol presence? I’m not going anywhere, but I’ll probably scale back the number of accounts I’m using.

Random Recipe

🥑 Here's my recipe for guacamole.

That’s it from this end. See you next time.