Weeknotes: Oct. 24-30, 2026

went to the Seattle Japanese Garden to celebrate my birthday! Win of the week: compared health plans and completed Open Enrollment — astonishingly our health care plan is only going up $5 per month 😯 Looking forward to: upcoming trip to see my family! Stuff I did: 0.75 hours consulting 8.75 hours outline voted and dropped off my ballot! (If you’re in the greater Seattle area, The Urbanist has endorsements for the Eastside as well as the city proper!) researched and wrote up ideas for stuff to do in CA with my fam it’s the time of year to propose neighborhood safety projects for my city’s neighborhood grant program — I voted and passed along the research I did on intersection murals earlier in the year watched Charlie Wilson’s War — have been watching a lot of modern Afghanistan history recently (Real Time History has been putting out a series) so husband wanted to watch this — can we return to the days of 90-minute movies please? baked coffee cake for Sunday brunch 1 weight workout +…