Week In Review 2026-07-18

This update covers Sunday 07-05-26 through Saturday 07-18-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Hello again. I’ve been busy of late. 📕 My mother’s ashes are buried, and a chapter in my life has concluded. 📜 It’s nice to see things through to the end and bask in the accomplishment without having to rush forth to find something else to tackle. ❤️‍🩹 Travel didn’t take much out of me last week, thankfully. A vascular scan on my lower legs happened on Thursday 07-16, with results to follow in the next few days. EXPLORE 🎨 I wrote two posts for the JulyReply project: “Re: I’m just so bored of AI” on Monday 07-06; and “Re: Weeknotes and ‘Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?’” on Tuesday 07-07. Thoughts about my mother’s burial can be found at “A reunion 56 years in the making,” published on Wednesday 07-15. Oh, and my Caira was sold for $500 on Saturday 07-11! I packaged all the items in their original boxes, shipped the box on Tuesday 07-14 for arrival at its new Silicon Valley…