I’m no literary snob. I live and breathe genre fiction for the most part.
Everything changes. I’m currently doing more team-specific support, which is different than the very general focus of my previous role. I’m officially a lead, but I see my team of two as a partnership.
I have the Switch 2 and am excited now that there are more Switch 2-specific updates and releases. Going to stick to this console for the majority of my gaming, but there is a PS5 in the other room.
Animal Crossing New Horizons is where I spend a lot of time. I do currently have islands on two consoles, the Switch 2 and a recently acquired, used, Animal Crossing-themed Switch.
I grabbed Cozy Caravan and I have spent a lot of time on that in the last few weeks. It has a ridiculous number of competing tasks, but the deadlines are lax or non-existant. I won’t lie, the travel required between plot points is kinda ridiculous, but I have really enjoyed filling in the map and it seems like there is a fair way to go in terms of what needs to be finished. It seems like there could be a sort of end, but I really have only been playing for two weeks at this writing.
I am feeling like expanding back out to other games again. I have gotten two characters to Level 20 in Hogwart’s Legacy but it feels like hardly getting my feet wet. Probably will restart that, again.
I am a huge fan of the NYXI Hyperion controllers. I use them docked to my consoles. I do use two consoles, each with its own instance of ACNH with unique islands. I started this before V3.0 was released (IYKYK). The second island graduated from a Switch Lite to a used ACNH Switch tablet purchased from eBay. No regrets.
We’ve been enjoying Ghibli studio movies as a family. If that is your jam, please check out the festival. Maybe it has been running for many years, but have certainly enjoyed going to these movies over the last year. I just watched the 4K re-release of Kiki’s Delivery Service at an Imax theater with kiddo. Would recommend.
I have spent a ton of time working on the Forever✱Notes methodology. I keep revising, revising, revising my system and my linking and my daily note template. I try so hard not to blog about blogging, or blog about journaling. But I think about it a lot and I’m being better about using this tool, lately.
My comment here is that this specific way of journaling can help me to revisit what I have already written. Even when it’s not top of mind it can come back around.
At the same time, getting too fussy can be overwhelming, and overwhelm leads to me quitting things. My daily note template reminds me of some of the decorative layouts I looked at when I was more actively doing the Bullet Journal method with paper and pen.
Except with electronic tools, it’s way less time consuming to copy/paste a layout than it is to spend a half hour drawing a layout for a day in my Bullet Journal.
By the way, it’s super easy to incorporate aspects of the Bullet Journal method into Forever✱Notes. Further, Forever✱Notes methods would work well in most modern note-taking apps like EverNote, Obsidian, Bear, etc. Apple allowing Markdown exporting would ease the transition if one decided to transition.
I am very happy to see Apple Notes introduce section linking with the 27 version of operating systems. While it’s not a true Anchor Tag like with HTML, it’s a positive step in a good direction. Longer notes can effectively have navigable tables of contents, based on headings and sub headings.
I’m diabetic and currently using GLP1 meds. Because the GLP1 meds are helping me to not shove tasty food into my mouth at every opportunity, I’ve been able to cut two other meds I have been using, but I still take a good amount of Metformin.
I love carbs. Love ‘em. And that is going to continue to be a challenge. I’m thinking a lot about simple fasting at this point, because I don’t want to be on meds forever and ever. Or at all. And I don’t want to die.
Statins are in the house because of cholesterol. I am so not proud.
And introducing: Back Pain.
I am friends with a heating pad and physical therapy. I hurt, I have taken time off from work and I miss work to make the therapy happen.
I have reached the use it or lose it portion of my life. I have reached the point of being solely responsible for the quality of the rest of my life.
The work is hard. I am not immortal. My body is yelling at me.