24 Nov 2024

Weeknotes 22

In general

November is the worst month. Cold and rainy. The days are short, and the holiday season hasn’t quite kicked in enough for it to be romantic.

1-bit Puerto Rico by Rubén Rodríguez
against the dark forest by Erin Kissane
Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones by Bridget Carey for CNET
Belmonte Ballpoint font by TYPEHEIST — every time I see a nice handwritten font, I’m reminded of my nebulous goal of making my own. A holiday project, perhaps? My biggest obstacle at the moment is that I have no idea where to start in terms of software and process.

I played Flamecraft, which is possibly one of the cutest board game concepts I’ve played. It’s got dragons! With punny names! Visiting shops! Doing enchantments!

I started rewatching Batman: The Animated Series. I watched this after school as a kid, and it’s strange to revisit it as an adult and see how dark it is. It’s very noir. I had watched the movie Mask of the Phantasm last year, which was similarly dark and eerie.
I went to the library and borrowed a few books: A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara, and Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. Maybe I can reach my 10-book reading goal in the last six weeks of the year? It’ll be a Christmas miracle.
I’m not gaming much. I haven’t played Destiny in several weeks. I might resubscribe to FFXIV?

I started working on my media 2024 recap. I want it to be—dramatic, overkill. So far, it sucks! I love this horrible beginning phase of things where everything I’m trying is bad. It’s nice to look back on when I do muddle my way out of it.
I want to publish these weeknotes, ah, weekly, for the rest of the year. They’ll be shorter and more lowkey as a result. After being overkill with a lot of my weeknotes this year, I’m allowing myself this.