Hey all, it’s a day late, but here’s how my last week or so went, in easy-to-write (and read, hopefully) bulleted list form.
- Jerry the leopard gecko appears to have hurt himself while shedding, so he gets to go to the vet tomorrow, the poor thing. It’s nothing major and he’s getting along fine, but he’s overdue for his annual and I want to get the injury checked out anyway. For his part, he doesn’t seem to give two shits and is nomming bugs and napping like there’s no tomorrow. Possibly because he has no concept of the future, so there is no tomorrow for him.
- I’ve been biking more, and even biked to/from my volunteering gig at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, which it turns out is a bit over 5 miles each way. Which was pretty tiring, but at least it’s flat! Also I bike way slower than Google thinks I should, which is good to know.
- The plus side is that I’ve been managing to actually have good cadence while biking, which is distinctly unlike how I used to bike, so I’m hoping once I get stronger and have more endurance I’ll be zippier than I ever used to be.
- I ended up with something social to do every night this week. Which is both awesome and intimidating. Hopefully I don’t burn out! o_O
- I had my second Google Hangouts interview for a position late last week, and I think I did decent? I’ll probably find out in the next week or so. *crosses fingers*
- Unfortunately I did wash out of the interview process for the other position I applied for, as a technical writer. But I got some decent feedback (tech understanding is good, but the writing itself needs work), so if I want to keep developing those skills and take another stab at in the future I have a good route to follow. That reminds me, I should actually check in the documentation I wrote for GitLab so they can (potentially) add it to their wiki…
- The twin mean dogs of depression and anxiety continue to, um, dog me. Trying to work past it, though. Or through it. To keep on keeping on.
- I finished the main plotline of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Yay! Though dang, it’s super-obvious they didn’t do everything they planned to do, as a bunch of plotlines just sort of fall off the face of the planet without a conclusion (even an ambiguous one). I could keep playing and do more side-ops and stuff, and there’s multiplayer, but from what I hear the multiplayer servers aren’t super populated anymore. (And a lot of the singleplayer stuff I would do at this point would mostly be to develop my Private Force/Army for multiplayer, so…) Plus, I’ve already sank 80 hours of my life into this game and I’m only at 61% completion, so I don’t know if aiming to actually finish it all would be worth the time investment.
- I also finished the audiobook of Ancillary Mercy, the last book in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy. Holy shit, it did such a good job of tying together emotional arc and external conflict arc resolutions. And I want to be best friends with a Translator. And everyone else in the book.
- I planted some california poppy seeds and lavendar seeds a couple weeks ago and a few of them are just starting to sprout! It’s exciting.
- I saw Captain Marvel! It’s so good. And continues on from one of my other favorite Marvel movies, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in actually using its plot to comment on current events. It’s not necessarily the most nuanced or subtle point, but it’s a good one.
How about you all? How did your weeks go? What did you get up to?
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