Week ending April 11, 2025: sidenotes, on this day, life
| review, weeklyI enjoyed walking in the park this week, and we started gardening too. Good counterbalance to the chaos of whatever the US is doing. I also enjoyed writing more about life.
I added sidenotes duplicated as footnotes to my
blog, inspired by citationneeded.news. The
sidenotes should show up on my blog if you have
Javascript enabled and the window is reasonably
wide. I like the way sidenotes allow me to me add
a little more context than a plain hyperlink.
Unlike the tangents that I've been tucking into
<details> elements, I don't even have to wait
until the end of the paragraph.
I also added an On This Day RSS feed, which I've added to my feed reader. I've been using it more than the web view to bump into my old posts. Thanks to Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas (Interconnected) for the inspiration.1 Ooh, let me go add sketches to the RSS feed… Might add them to the web view as well at some point.
W-, A+, and I regularly played Minecraft after dinner. This week, I set up tunnels going to a trial chamber in the overworld and to a blaze spawner in the Nether. A+ wants to get more XP in a safe way, so I think I'll work on setting up some XP farms. There's a skeleton spawner not too far from our base, so that's probably a good start.
Blog posts
- A typical weekday
- My words will become her inner voice
- Cases of mangoes, coolers of freezies
- 2025-04-07 Emacs news
Sketches
Toots
- I hadn't realized that there was an #OrgMeetup [on Wednesday], didn't notice @yantar92's email on my phone, and I totally missed both announcing it in Emacs News getting the BigBlueButton server up. I've now added it as a recurring entry on my calendar and I've added cronjobs for the next six months so that BigBlueButton will probably scale up and down automatically. I'm so glad Ihor had Jitsi as a backup. Whoops! Embarrassing… (toot)
- I like the Hourly Comics Day in https://anhvn.com/posts/2025/weeknotes-29/ . (toot)
- The kiddo helped me add composted cow manure to the front garden. We planted radishes (Scarlet Globe, Easter Egg II Blend) and poppies (Flemish Antique Peony, Canada Mix, and Purple Peony). (toot)
I saw this snippet in a 2016 interview in Psychology Today with T. Berry Brazelton: (toot)
“BB: I've just finished writing a book, The Final Touchpoint I'd like to get that out there. There are better and worse ways to handle our aging, our denial of it, our acceptance, and—as Erik Erikson put it—our being generative, to produce as much as we can while we can. I'm 98 but I'm still trying to be generative.”
He died two years after the interview and I don't think The Final Touchpoint has been published, but it might be interesting to find similar books.
Time
| Category | The other week % | Last week % | Diff % | h/wk | Diff h/wk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discretionary - Play | 1.1 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 6.4 | 4.5 |
| Discretionary - Productive | 21.6 | 24.2 | 2.5 | 40.6 | 4.3 |
| Sleep | 30.6 | 31.7 | 1.1 | 53.3 | 1.9 |
| Discretionary - Family | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| A+ | 26.2 | 26.4 | 0.3 | 44.4 | 0.4 |
| Business | 0.6 | 0.2 | -0.4 | 0.3 | -0.7 |
| Unpaid work | 3.6 | 2.1 | -1.5 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
| Personal | 16.1 | 10.6 | -5.6 | 17.8 | -9.4 |
More writing and drawing this week, which was nice. I still haven't gotten around to figuring out how to squeeze those front-end consulting requests in, since they take a fair bit of context and concentration. It's okay.
Footnotes
“Naturally there's an On This Day web feed too so these posts appear in my newsreader each morning. Some personal serendipity to start the day.”
Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas (Interconnected) (my toot)