Weeknote for 6/4/2023

Housekeeping

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I made general plans for the seasonal housekeeping project and planned some purchases. Part of my procrastination on this project has been not knowing what tasks belong in it. So I gave myself some clarity on that. The one actual project task I did was to plan a batch of purchases that have been on my waiting list. My phone’s power situation has become potentially perilous because its flaky lightning port makes it hard to charge, so I’m ordering a phone car mount that will let me use a MagSafe charger while I drive, and to take no chances I’ll get a MagSafe battery pack too.

Programming

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This week I’m back to the software development notes. My plan is to journal a bunch on my current topics and then see if anything postable comes out of it.

Productivity

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I found a very helpful online Gregg shorthand dictionary. It resolves so much of the uncertainty I’ve had as I write. It covers the Anniversary and Simplified editions, which got me to take a second look at Simplified, and I’ve decided to standardize myself on it. I’ve ordered its manual.

Fiction

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I set up my Goodreads to track the many series I’m listening to. Now that I’m done with The Inheritance Cycle (great series, by the way), I’m running out of obvious next books to listen to. So I took an idea from my brother and added a Goodreads shelf for the next book in each series I’m following. It turns out there are a lot of them, so it’s kind of a major task. But that should make it easier to decide what’s next.

Nature

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I went on a plant identifying frenzy. After years of wondering when I would ever find a way to learn the plants on my nature walks, last week I realized I have a plant identification app on my phone, iNaturalist Seek. So now my walks have become much longer as I constantly stop to take photos of every plant that catches my eye, and a few bugs too. It seems that the nearby woods are dominated by common buckthorn, plus a lot of Amur honeysuckle.

Bonus: Have a bee and a fish.