I spent a large portion of the day debugging open source software and yes, I enjoyed doing that. It would of course have been more convenient if someone else had already done it, but it does give me a nice sense of accomplishment to contribute to the community.

Finished Silent Hill: Townfall and had lunch with parents. I’d say good day

I hung out with my wife, watched some t.v., played some video games, did some gardening, and surfed the internet.

After a long, busy week, it was exactly how I wanted to spend my weekend. I feel rested and recovered.

Fun question!

Nothing... live in the area of the nor easter and power went out at 5:20am and it woke me. Some crazy winds at that time so not shocked. Didn't get power back until 7:00pm and during the outage I was just kind of depressed and ended up doing nothing. Waste of a weekend when I do have a lot to do sadly. Maybe next week.

I delivered Amazon packages because I work for the United States Postal Service.

It wasn't what I wanted to do today.

I wanted to cry today. I want to cry every day. I hate my life.

Drinking, and drinking

What I did today: Moved a bunch of networking appliances and re-ran network cable.

What I wanted to be doing today: Moving a bunch of networking appliances and re-running network cable.

I got done about as much as I expected to be able to get done today. So, I'm pretty happy with it.

My yesterday:

Wanted to do:

• Clean up cardboard boxes
• Clean up table/take out trash
• Prep camping bag for next trip
• Meal prep

Ended up doing:

• Prep camping bag for next trip
• Realized all my gear now takes significant space, so re-organized my storage space and stowed away all my gear
• Meal prep

Not a total loss, the gear having a place is a win, but I now face start of the work week with tons of cardboard preventing me from working out and a still messy table and glass bottles everywhere. I'm really bad when it comes to keeping my place clean...

I was supposed to buy something off of facebook marketplace, but it’s 2 cities away and an hour drive to get to the seller. I need to plan for that, so I played StarCraft all afternoon instead. Hopefully the item is still available later this week and maybe the seller brings the price down a bit.

Definitely a mixed bag.

Today I submitted a project for a game jam. It's the first one I've finished in a little over two years. Shameless self promotion

On the one hand, yes it's absolutely what I wanted to do. Video games have always been a special interest, and I'd really like to be selling my own games. Plus a jam is a good learning experience and trust me: I'll find all the ways you shouldn't do something.

On the other hand, it's a whole lot of crunch time racing against the clock. Sleepy, migraine, and basically wrung out. Plus the nature of a jam is that you're inevitably shipping a buggy mess that only sorta works - it's basically the antithesis to my work ethic.

But, it's been a long time, I'm happy with what I made, and the stresses of the game have been a very effective escape from the stresses of real life. So overall: yeah, it's what I wanted to be doing

I'm rewriting my soundboard in Rust! /j (It was already written in Rust)

I was restructuring my soundboard to decouple the frontend and backend so it can be run as a daemon easier. Also removing the usage of global variables and avoiding using like 5 locks at once.

Haven't pushed any of the modifications yet, but if you're interested in the soundboard, here it is

We did a bunch of things today, all definitely what we wanted to do. Went to costco yesterday so did a ton of fall food prep stuff and finished the new shelves in the pantry to put away said costco trip. So much yummy food now! We made…

• Roasted heads of garlic for the freezer
• Lechon Kawali for the freezer. I use this instead of chashu in my ramen. Soooo good. Cut it into 1” squares before freezing and then you just grab what you need.
• Pork stock from the lechon
• Pork and roasted garlic fat, also from the lechon.
• Pickled jalapeños
• Blueberry bran muffins
• Pressure cooked beans for the week
• Portioned out and vac bagged chicken thighs and Italian sausage for the freezer

Was going to make some more things but we’re beat. Going to go and have a beer on the beach in the sun. Oh, after we take down the deck unbrella for the winter. Shoot.

I made rice. Like stand and wash it forever rice. Normally I cook the fastest thing, but today I made rice.

It sounds stupid, I know.

We walked the dog down to a local Korean place and got bibimbap and banana lattes. My partner got one of those grabby claws and we picked up trash along the way — I think we filled 7-8 plastic grocery bags. I’d rather just hang out and play Palworld, but I’ll enjoy the cleaner streets when we get out to walk the dogs, and I know I should enjoy the sun before the dark returns, so I’m glad we did it.

It was my last official day at the animal rescue for the year. There is still other stuff I can do, but this was my last day with my regular team. So that was a little sad, but I went with 2 of my friends there to hot pot for lunch afterwards. So I really enjoyed that.

I had a great time feeding the baby mice today, which I do not usually enjoy, but they were so sweet today! It was nice to end the term on a surprise high note.

I did get bit by another squirrel, but not near as bad as last week, so that's neutral, just part of the game, and it's rainy and bleh from this noreaster storm, but otherwise a great day and all went as planned!

I worked a full shift, which is not what I wanted to do.

But I did make an awesome lunch which is what I wanted to do.

But it got cut short when I had to deal with a work emergency, which is not what I wanted to do.

But I also got to text with my crush all day which is what I wanted to do.

• Took the kids for bike ride
• Phoned my dad
• Phoned my sister
• Played a round of DCSS (ReIE)
• Watched some football w snacks

Yes, great day.

mmo, bath, dishes, dog walking N junk. pretty much what I planned but I would love to get more done. kinda the minimum I had to get done.

Did a couple chores and laid low bc I have work tomorrow and am sick with some mystery bug.

Would rather have baked something but I did that a couple times last week at least so it’s not too painful a loss lol

Went for a motorbike ride and found a new twisty route which was nice. We stopped at an art center on our way back, the exhibition we visited was inspiring - colorful and abstract or calm and detailed paintings from 3 different Spanish painters. The weather was beautiful: autumn sun, not too cold, colorful trees - perfect for riding.

Went for my morning one-hour walk.

Made lunch.

Uh... yeah.

There are plenty of things I'd rather be doing. Can't afford any of them.

What I did:

• Went to the gym.
• Updated some old notes.
• Grading.

Out of the 3, I wanted the gym trip, but would have rather spent time on a woodworking project that I have going in the garage.

I took three trains to get from Wuppertal to Brussels. The first one was going to be late (you can make jokes about DB) and I was going to miss my connection but I was early at the station, so I took the one that passed an hour before and had to kill a bit of time in Köln.

There was a vegan demo outside the station and I was stupid enough to walk nearby. One of them started to ask me questions. I said I'm not vegan but I agree in general with their cause, that I'm never cooking meat myself, but still eat it on occasion when I'm visiting family or going to a fast food. But she kept insisting about the exploitation while pointing the bloody images. It made me a bit mad, since I'm at least aware and trying. I managed to walk away but I wanted to go back and ask if any of them were driving cars, because that my obsession and those are also killing billions of animals every year (and a few million humans).

Anyway, I managed to catch my connection and finally got to Brussels for my flight back to Montréal tomorrow morning.

I did plan this day, and I did suspect very much that there would be a train delayed for my journey, but the first one was a bit of a surprise. I'm just glad I'll be home soon, because I did what I wanted to do this week (cycle to and fro between Aachen and Monschau, and on the Nordbahnstrasse in Wuppertal) and now I'm just annoyed by this noisy hotel room.