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The Week #324
by James- 🗺️ My maps have broken on my site and I need to fix them. Truth is, it didn't just happen this week. But blockage was inconsistent enough where I wasn't sure if it was actually broken or a transient error. The mapping code hasn't changed in years, so will be a good one for me to dive into and upgrade while I'm there.
- ☔️ A typhoon came and went. It skirted along Tokyo and dumped 2.5x the usual monthly totals of rain in 24 hours. While we were fine, this amount of rain isn't normal. Naturally it comes during a 3-day string of public holidays.
- 🍕 Using ground meat to make sausage has been a new thing of mine (Doing something 3x makes it a thing). This kicked off by wanting American-style breakfast sausage patties and a) not being able to find them locally, no matter the shape, and b) wanting to lower the amount of processed meats in our diets. Using ground meat + seasonings, you know exactly what's in it and it's quick to make/store.
While we were stuck inside, I realized also I had all of the ingredients for Italian sausage (fennel, sage, oregano, garlic and friends) as well. So this batch of sausage got split in two. I immediately put the Italian sausages on a pizza and :chef-kiss:. I foresee me buying larger packages of ground meat to experiment more and freeze. - 🧑💻 I spent some time cleaning up a maintenace PR for Tanzawa. It's getting close to being ready as I clean up the commits left over from OpenCode. I'd like to hurry up and get it in so I can point the robots at my maps. But also quality must be maintained.
- 🎶 As much as I want to dunk on it, the freakin' algorithm delivered again (though as background music to a video) – Olivia Dean. I especially like her song "Nice to Each Other" (Apple Music, YouTube).
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The Week #323
by James- 🗡️ I was very wrong to guess we had another month left in Tears of the Kingdom. We had a few more days. Which is to say, we beat Tears of the Kingdom after 2.5 years! When Leo first beat Ganon, he/we went in with a "this is just practice" mindset, and yet he kicked his butt. Such a good game.
- ⚔️ Lining up with the 40th anniversary of Zelda, Nintendo has announced dates for and released gameplay footage of a Zelda themed Switch 2 and a remake of Ocarina of Time. I have never been more tempted to pick up a Switch 2.
- 🍄 This is a Nintendo heavy week. When we saw Super Mario Galaxy movie they gave you a collectable playing card and another card with a QR code to enter a contest. I completely forgot I entered it, but received notification this week that we won! Sometime early next month a question block cushion and Yoshi blanket should arrive 🎉.
- 🤒 Leo spent a couple days back from school sick. He hasn't been sick for probably 6 months. Between school closing for rain and this, he only went to school twice last week.
- 📚 I finished reading Crafting Engineering Strategy. I'll need to re-read parts of it as I go apply what I learned, but it's given me a lot of food for though for how I can approach my work in a different way. Next up I've started on Essentialism, a book I heard a lot about when it first came out, wanted to read, but never did.
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Checkin to Starbucks
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The Week #322
by James- 🗡️ After a couple of years, but we finally got the master sword in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I think we've still got another month or so in the game.
- 📚 Always thinking how can we foster a love of reading, I don't know why it took me so long to realize I should embrace Leo's current boom and get books about that. Embracing the Zelda boom, I picked up an Ocarina of Time manga. And he's already finished it just 2 days. My next task will be to figure out how I can transition from comics to actual books.
- 😋 We went to a friend's house for lunch and they made us some Sri Lankan roasted chicken and potatoes, it was soo good. I really need to visit Sri Lanka.
- ☔️ While we were at our friend's house we got notice from the school that due to the expected level 5 rain school would be closed on Monday. It rained a lot overnight, but not too much out of the ordinary. And on Monday itself. just light rain. I appreciate the caution, but also working while the boy is stuck indoors has its challenges.
