The Week #232

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  • 🩺 I went in for my annual health check. Frequent readers might realize it's actually my second one this calendar year. But it's my first fiscal year (April - March). Good news is that it went well. All of my numbers were in within range. I even got a "wonderful" from the old doctor at the end. Since it was on offer, I finally got around to getting my flu vaccine as well.

    Unrelated to my health check above, I got a Garmin Index S2 smart scale. I wanted a way to automatically track my weight and bmi (and muscle mass, fat percentage is a bonus). A year or two(!) back I made a way to track my weight into Tanzawa, and while it was easier than a google sheet, it's still something I've got to manually type in.  I must say, it is really nice to be able to just hop on the scale, get off, and it goes into Garmin/Apple Health.
  • 🏝️ We went and saw Moana 2 over the weekend. The movie itself was good. I think I liked the music from the first one more, but the story itself was solid. It was our first evening movie together as a family and my first time seeing a movie at the new shopping center that opened near our house. We're close enough to the city center that kids movies are shown in English with subtitles and dubbed versions, rather than just dubbed.

    Leo seems to get confused about his English ability. He thinks he's like the rest of the kids in his class, when that isn't the case. He doesn't realize that all of his classmates could not just casually go and watch a movie in English and understand it all. Good news is, he spoke a few more words of English in the car after the movie. Really need to find a way for him to spend weeks abroad in an English environment...
  • 🦋 Last week I created an account on BlueSky. I'm still not certain if I like it yet. Discover feels full of the outrage posts I do not miss from Twitter. I am glad I can disable re-posts (like I do on Mastodon) to keep the most sensational stuff out my feeds. As I reckon I'll use it at least in the medium term, I felt like I should make it as easy to post to from my site as Mastodon is. So now Tanzawa has a button just below to the Send to Mastodon Button that Sends to Bluesky.
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