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The last couple of days at work I've felt extremely tired and unable to focus. Yesterday I put the call out for some ambient music to help; Spotify really wasn't cutting it. Hyde came through with a helpful recommendation. The only thing about it is that there's no local info saved so whenever you open the page it starts the playlist back at the beginning. I suppose that shouldn't matter because it's background and you're not meant to pay attention, but at this point it's the principle for me.…
What a great week! We officially started softball Wednesday night, and that was fun, even though it was stupid cold and we had too many players (a lot of standing around). But we're back in the swing of things (pun slightly intended). I'm keeping track of at-bats for my wife and I this year in a little notebook, and I'll put the numbers into a spreadsheet at the end of the year. If I can figure it out I'll make little playing cards. To end the week we were super busy. Helped my parents set up…
I've come across a couple of pages from gb now, the first being caution! zine in progress. From what I can tell, gb is Canadian, possibly living in Ontario? I'm going to reach out after I finish writing this response post. And that post I'm replying to: radio is cool, actually A caveat: I work in radio, so I have skin in the game. However, at 42 years old, radio has been a fixture in my life for over 35 years (I couldn't tell you when I first listened to a radio station, but I'm sure it has…
Over the last couple of days I've been playing around with my MLB The Show 24 Franchise Tracker. At first it was about trying to update the site template so I could get Bases to start working but I ran into a bunch of roadblocks. In the process of trying to fix it, I think I broke it even more. I consulted Claude throughout the day yesterday, but it's hard to troubleshoot on a mobile phone1. At some point while I was walking my dog, I decided it would be simpler to nuke the whole thing. I did…
I like to read The Hiro Report every week, even though it's geared to iPhone users and the apps mention rarely ever have an Android counterpart. And the Amazon links send me to the US site and I can't view them when switching to Canada unless they happen to have the exact same item. But that's a Me problem, not Hiro's. But he also has links to interesting gadgets, and this week the one that drew my eye was the "Reloadable 35mm Film Camera" from Prism Lens FX. I'd never heard of this company but…
I love Samsung's Modes & Routines and the expanded functionality in the last few versions of OneUI 8. I've been setting up different watch faces depending on my location. Battery life on my phone is improved since I made some changes to my at-work routine. I disabled some apps that would normally check for notifications etc. that I don't intend to use. Disabled notifications for other apps that I have turned on. I will still do a charge top-up if I know I'll need extra power later in the…
Musing on a few things, this should almost be a thoughts post but it's a unified topic so it can be its own thing. This is a short list of some habits I'm either forming, or changing. How I use my smart watch For almost the entire time I've used a smart watch, I have the "wake up" gesture set to when I raise my wrist, and have had Always On Display turned OFF. The latter was mostly to conserve battery - the watches I've owned have been rather power hungry and AOD would often mean I'd be wearing…
This week started with ordering a new sling / camera bag, expecting it to arrive Tuesday morning before work...except that the delivery person confused my house numbers (despite the wrong house number appearing in the photo proof of delivery...). I got the bag at the end of the day, and was immediately satisfied with it (I wrote about it). It wasn't a goal for this week per se, but I kept up with my food logging every day. Even while we were away from home Thursday night through late Sunday…
I read yesterday about a new Kickstarter project: I’m Back Roll APS-C – Digital Film Inside Your Camera by Samuel Mello Medeiros The terrible name aside ("I'm Back"??), the project sounds interesting. In short, it's a roll of digital "film" that you insert into your 35mm film camera, transforming it into a digital camera. So now, instead of taking your photos on film and waiting to have them developed, you can get your photos from your digital "roll" right away. The feature for this is the…
A couple of weeks ago, James wrote a post reviewing a couple of sling bags he bought after a recent trip exposed the downsides of lugging a bulky backpack on a recent vacation. He reviewed two bags and ended up recommending the Ulanzi Travel Sling V2 (PB038). I have a trip coming up in June, and before James' post the thought of a sling bag never crossed my mind. After reading it though, it's obvious why I should get one. It's versatile and can carry a lot of stuff! And we have a lot of stuff…
What a beautiful week. After rain almost every day last week, the sun started shining! It got warm, things dried out, culminating in a 21-degree (Celsius) Sunday afternoon, when we went out to hit some softballs with our Monday night softball crew. I've been dealing with some difficult things at work that are affecting my mental health. Nothing major, just some things I should have to deal with have been put on my plate. I'll explain some day, maybe; I've written about it privately anyway. On…
Once again, shame on me for forgetting where I first found this post: The BIC Pen Experiment, Part 3 | The Tinkering Dwarf I know it's on Bubbles but I am fairly certain I saw it on someone else's round-up. Maybe Joel? Anyway the gist of the experiment was to see how long it would take to use up the ink well in a classic BIC cristal pen. It's one of my favourite reliable pens and I don't think I'm alone in that matter. It writes well and is smooth - what more do you want from a cheap ballpoint?…
I don't know why this slipped my mind, but I remembered recently that when I was 10 or 11 - in elementary school - I wrote a zine. I don't remember the contents whatsoever, except that the title was "Have Some Hair!" and featured a caricature of our teacher who was maybe bald? I created it on our DOS computer using the always reliable program, The Print Shop. We used this program a LOT, the most frequent application being printing custom greeting cards. We would make a design using a library of…
Apparently it's Earth Day? I haven't heard much "hype" leading up to the day, and haven't heard or read any news stories about it (admittedly I haven't listened to much radio today). But perhaps just as important, today is Ancestor's Eve! ¶ I was all set to write about some topics that have been on my mind but around lunchtime I felt the mental strain from some things I'm dealing with at work. I'm not at liberty to talk about them publicly but I can say it's not entirely related to the work…
I set up a new page for the blog: Upcoming Topics. There are two purposes: A place for me to note down things I want to write about so I don't forget People can check it out to look forward to upcoming topics, if they're interested I had to modify my nav menu a little bit to get things to fit nicely. I only previewed on desktop, so it might look funky on mobile. Reply by email Share this post Mastodon Bluesky
In my last thoughts post I said that I was ditching the Yashica MF-2 for a Konica Z-Up 120. I didn't end up buying the Konica, but instead came out of the weekend with a Pentax Espio 738G.1 I decided Friday that I was going to return the Yashica for a refund. Both cameras cost $40 (the Yashica was $39.99 + tax), so in all it would be a wash. But then on Sunday I got my photos from the Yashica back. I posted some samples on my photo blog. While many of the test shots in poor lighting conditions…
We returned from being away the previous week so the beginning of the week was largely devoted to returning to routine. The week was also very wet - a lot of rain, unfortunately. But the weather finally turned beautiful Friday and I was able to get out for some drone flying with my friend. I wanted a nice open area to get used to the controls, as the only practice I've had to date has been in a limited area with lots of trees and wires. I got some decent test shots and video but nothing to…
Thoughts for Friday April 17 2026.
Week Notes for April 6-12, 2026
Thoughts on a Friday morning (barely).
Week Notes for March 30-April 5, 2026
Some thoughts about writing and writing for an audience.
Thoughts on a Thursday.
Brief thoughts and a sort-of review of John Woo's Mission: Impossible 2 (2000).
Week Notes for March 23-29, 2026
March is Epilepsy Awareness Month (in Canada). Purple Day, an international day to raise awareness for epilepsy, is also in March - the 26th.
Thoughts about why I have multiple blogs.
Thoughts for Monday March 23 2026.
