22 Mar 2026

Weeknotes 38

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    I was thinking the other week about how I should write weeknotes more often. Last year I wrote fewer, after getting tired of them and finding fulfillment elsewhere; now I’ve come back round to it. It may do me some good again to document such things. I suppose this cycle is natural.

    Projects

    I remain scatterbrained and useless, which manifests in working on many different things and completing none of them. We’ll get there!

    December Adventure in March

    Eli brought this back for a week this month, and I embarked upon it quite excited before getting crushed by the mundane realities of the work week: I got busy, was tired, spent time doing other things, etc. etc. I ended up documenting two days of progress on my homepage update.

    Cropped screenshot showing images that link to various pages on my site, set on top of a busy, floral repeating pattern, like a wallpaper.
    yay maximalism

    SF post

    This continues to trudge along.

    Blog post excerpt where I’ve briefly complained about AI-themed billboards in San Francisco. Next to the text is a photo, styled like a polaroid taped to the page, and next to that is an aside, rotated 90 degrees, like I wrote the note in the margins of a book.
    mm yes, making impractical layouts…

    Books

    I’ve been reading(/listening) to books much more than usual this year, which is exciting not just because of Number Of Books Read Go Up but also because of the fun of the written word.

    Most recently I’ve finished:

    • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — I’m the last person in the world to read this and learn that yeah, Jane Austen is as funny as they say. I listened to the audiobook, which is delightfully narrated, but I want to go back and read through the book myself so I can slow down and enjoy her writing.
    • House of Leaves by Zampanò, with notes by Johnny Truant — my notes on this forthcoming, once I sort through all my sticky tabs…
    • 2120 by George Wylesol — a weird comic slash choose your own adventure book slash game, which I wrote more about here
    • Pattern Design by Lewis F. Day — an old book, read via internet archive, which is what spurred me on my aforementioned homepage update

    I continue to fall behind on The Count of Monte Cristo, but at least I’m making progress on other things in the meanwhile.

    Games

    I’m playing Marathon! I am, uh, quite bad at it. But it’s okay! It’s fine! It’s fine when I lose all my stuff! I’m not sad…

    Art

    I am also drawing Marathon. The shell designs are cool.

    Ink sketches of the six shells in Marathon (excluding Rook)

    Photos

    I visited the local botanical garden this weekend!

    Two Canada geese standing on the grass next to a pond, only a few feet away from me.
    these two were just chilling right next to the path where we entered
    A few cherry blossoms on a branch; most other buds haven't bloomed.
    it was still a bit too early for cherry blossoms to be blooming
    A rhododendron tree, where the overall shape is triangular, and the flowers are evenly distributed across the entire tree in an almost unnatural way.
    a weirdly…even? rhododendron. it looks almost unnatural
    The large pink petals of a magnolia tree, and the pink flowers of a rhododendron against a cloudy blue sky.
    magnolia tree in the back (these have huge pink petals); rhododendron in foreground
    Closeup of a cluster of pink rhododendron flowers atop large, oval leaves.
    rhododendron