Weekly Notes 2025.36
- This week turned out to include a nice mix of work projects, local events, and some quality time experimenting with new tools. The weather has been all over the place though… enjoyably cool early in the week, then warming back up to obnoxious for September by Thursday.
- Monday was a pretty standard day in the office. After work (and dinner), I decided to experiment with having Claude help me write a status update for my blog (not because I needed help, more because I was curious to see what it would do). I ultimately wasted way more time than it was probably worth, but it was interesting to see what an LLM thought a status update should look like, vs what I would normally post.
- Speaking of my status update… it was actually about the weather. 😬 The weather was perfect Monday evening for a longer walk through the neighborhood, and I wanted to remember that when perusing my website in the future.
- Tuesday, a group of us watched the Apple iPhone event over lunch. The live translation feature on the updated Airpods Pro looked especially cool, though I would rarely have a reason to use it, and the orange iPhone Pro definitely stood out from the usual color options. Feature-wise though, it felt like a general spec bump/improvement year rather than revolutionary changes, outside of the iPhone Air unveiling. I won’t be ordering one for myself, but the concept is intriguing as a design direction… I’ve been trying to rationalize who exactly it’s for, as I’ve yet to find someone who intends to buy one.
- Tuesday afternoon I was asked to sit in on the cultural interview of a candidate for a position at work, after which I and a coworker took them out for dinner at The 208 House, who just happened to have a new menu for us to enjoy (unbeknownst to me until we arrived). The food was delicious, and it was nice getting to know the candidate a little better outside of an office environment.
- Wednesday was back to a pretty normal day, much of which I spent preparing for a project review on Thursday. The review (held on Thursday over lunch) went well, though as often occurs, I have additional items to do after the discussion. 🙂
- Wednesday evening I decided to play around with Obsidian Bases for a while, though I ultimately decided that I’m not ready to incorporate the feature into my current workflow. I did switch back to the Minimal theme by kepano while I was at it though, and I’m enjoying it as a different style for my notes for a while.
- Thursday a coworker and I also spent time planning for the deployment of an updated ECAD tool for the organization. This is one of the larger pieces of enterprise software I’ll have deployed, and it’s always interesting thinking through config, etc.
- Friday morning I was in-office for meetings (more on EU regulations, yay!), then headed to lunch with a number of coworkers at the Morton Pumpkin Festival (a yearly event for our team).
- Friday afternoon, a smaller group of coworkers and I went to Northwood in Morton for the Blue disc golf course. It was fun, though I definitely need to practice more! My technique isn’t great, but the course itself is really well-designed with good variety of holes.
- Friday evening, even though I’d been outside most of the afternoon, I set aside an hour for mowing. Though the grass is barely alive right now with how dry it’s been, there were a few areas that needed some trimming to look even, and I like things looking tidy.
- Saturday, as has become my routine, I went to the Pumpkin Drive Thru for lunch, and bought a few quarts of ice cream for family and friends in Ohio.
- Saturday afternoon I spent time adding a bunch of additional music (mostly from video games that I’ve bought over the years) to my server, and then began rebuilding my movie collection as well. There’s something satisfying about having your media properly organized and accessible, and I hadn’t realized how much I’ve come to depend on self-hosted media until I didn’t have it for a while.
- This morning, I went to Divine Service as usual, then headed to the store for groceries. On my way home, I started a new novel, The Sword of Shannara, listening via Prologue. I’ve had the book for a while, but never got around to actually reading it until now.
- Around noon, I ate a simple lunch (fried eggs and spicy ramen), and have been working on laundry, some home projects, work email, and adding more movies and home videos to my server ever since.
- And with that, I think I’m caught up, and ready for another week! (Or… will be, once I finish this and some emails 😉)