highlights

• Made some homemade tomato soup & grilled cheeses for some friends & had a craft night
  • I made the recipe on my own and I’m very proud of it. I <3 my immersion blender.
• Finalized the menu for thanksgiving and ordered some turkey and bread so i don’t have to worry about cooking those day of
  • My partner and I always host, but didn’t feel like going all-out this year.
• Started reading Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
  • Loving this so far. It’s so visceral.
• My partner set up a self hosted instance of hoarder for me and wow, this bookmark manager has blown me away.
  • I just appreciate how much love was put into this software. The author really cares about this project and it shows - the UX is great.
  • There’s even an API! I’ve been thinking about how I want to make a links page and I think this API is it.
• I came to the realization this week that I need to start looking for a new job, at minimum. Ideally, I wish I could take a sabbatical but it doesn’t seem like the best idea with a country on the brink of fascism and an impending economic downturn during a white collar recession.
  • This is less than ideal for many reasons, but God is change.
• To the point above, I started updating my professional site this week! I built in custom functionality for a markdown blog in NextJS.
  • Even though MDX is supported out of the box in Next, I don’t want to use it. I have a very opinionated way of handling content and code in my sites.
  • Even though it was pretty difficult for me, I spent a ton of time weaving packages and some node functions together to make all of the functionality with no trade-offs! Yippee.
• Took care of planning some appointments and errands I have been putting off.

website updates

• Added a new recipe to my recipe page: tomato soup

media

• I’ve started playing Cult of the Lamb again as they’ve released 2 major updates since I played last. Gosh, this game is so good. This is definitely one of the most addicting gameplay loops of all time.
• Law and Order: SVU season 9 has been insane. Wow, I completely understand what people mean when they say this show hits its true stride around this time. I love this messy copaganda filled with horrible people.

This week was definitely a mentally heavy one for me. It was hard to keep up with my routine and update my weeknotes throughout the week, so this entry is a little sparse. I’m hoping next week I can start to feel a little less stressed!