8 Jan 2026

Weeknotes 36

  • delphitools is an amazing collection of small, useful tools. Like this paper sizes reference, something I have had to search for before and wade through annoying websites to find information for.
  • I like the daily game enclose.horse, where you enclose a horse with fences. I’ve played three days so far and have yet to reach 100%.
  • A Website To End All Websites by Henry From Online. Everything Henry writes is thoughtful and heartfelt. Also, the fonts on this page are annoyingly beautiful.

Reading

I’m trying to read more this year. Have I said that before? Let’s pretend this isn’t a goal I’ve had every year for the past ten years, mostly to sad results.

  • My friends invited me to join a year-long book club for The Count of Monte Cristo, aptly titled r/AReadingOfMonteCristo. The book is a chonker. I hope I can keep up. I tried to do Dracula Daily a couple of years ago, but fell off halfway through.
  • I’ve started listening to audiobooks! This is a first. I hope it will improve my Reading Productivity™.
  • I’ve started to look at more recipe books, instead of fighting against recipe websites and shortform cooking videos.

Working on

  • I’ve started publicly cataloguing my planner spreads. My ideal form of this is a grid of photos, filterable by layout and subject.
  • I haven’t been drawing lately, which bums me out, but I’m thinking of updating my homepage grid. I excluded a tile for my books page when I made it, because I was barely updating it, but maybe I should add it now that I’m definitely going to read so much this year. And the art on my homepage is deliberately simple, so it’s theoretically (ha!) not demanding to update.
    • it would just mess up the nice 3×3 grid I have going on, so maybe I need to add three new tiles, actually
  • then that pile of blog post stuff I’ve been working on for weeks and weeks and am too embarrassed to keep mentioning here.

Some good things:

  • Sunsets are nice, especially the ones where everyone around you also notices that it’s nice and stops to take photos of it
  • Cat videos
  • When the sun comes out after a dreary, rainy morning
  • Soup, noodle soup, hot pot, etc.
  • My cutting board is r/perfectfit in my new dish drying rack
  • I have exciting, chill weekend plans
  • Days are slowly getting longer

I’m not one for reading poetry (maybe one day in the future), but here is one:

Good Bones
By Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.