Weeknotes 103

Hello from the Christmas hibernation sofa. Extremely little has happened, so that’s good.

At the start of the week I was dreading the logistics of collecting a rental car, loading up all the gifts & gear and driving to see my family. But it all went smoothly and everything arrived without getting crushed or smashed or melted or COVID.

The dread turned to relief as two years’ pent-up festive potential energy got released as heat and light: the presents were opened, the food was eaten, and now we can all idle in the liminal zone between Christmas and the new year where nobody can see or judge us, probably.

While Nat & I were still at our respective homes we tried using SharePlay to watch the last two episodes of Foundation together. This worked much better than the Disney+ thing or the Plex thing (never mind Netflix, which inexplicably doesn’t even have a native thing) and was a pretty pleasant experience overall so I expect we’ll be using it again.

Foundation ended as it began — silly, portentous and not making any real sense — but it was also very luxurious which made me feel like I was getting something out of it even if I wasn’t. And they’re making another season of it! Incredible.

To celebrate the release of Ruby 3.1 I recorded a quick YouTube Short about one of its new features:

It didn’t exactly Do Numbers but I enjoyed knocking out something brief and simple so I might make another once I’m back at my computer.

In an ominous sign of the times I had to increase how long my Apple TV waits before automatically going to sleep because it kept turning itself off when I was halfway through watching something but got distracted by my phone or computer.

Making it longer than the already generous 30-minute default feels like an admission that either I have a real problem paying attention in even this incredibly passive way or I’ve run out of sufficiently interesting things to watch. I’m not sure which possibility worries me more.

While 2021 has in general been a good year for health, I’m not looking forward to weighing myself when I get home.