Week In Review 2026-04-25

This weekly update covers Sunday 04-19-26 through Saturday 04-25-261. LIFE 🈁: Work and home life are starting to decouple. I feel like I am coming out of a fog, not due to illness but because of how overwhelmed I was with the Beaker project, but now it feels like the yoke is being lifted from my shoulders. 📕: Beaker has decreased its stranglehold on my work life, as I have the time to answer non-Beaker questions and follow up with my other tasks at work. It's somewhat like the relief one gets when taking medicine to reduce sinus inflammation: the pain is still there, but noticeably lessened. There were over 3000 tickets filed since Go-Live on Saturday 04-11, which is an immense number that itself will require longer and deeper investigations by multiple departments. But that's a story for another day. 📜: With a pending vacation, I would have preferred not to spend over $1100 on car repairs on Thursday 04-23, but all four brake rotors and pads needed to be replaced, and stopping a car…