Weeknotes 282

It’s sunny and warm. I baked a couple of loaves this morning with the windows open. 🍞☀️

Another extremely welcome four-day week. Nearly three months until the next one, although I’ll take a week off in the middle.

Work’s hard work.

Four times at the gym. In May I lost about a kilo and a half, versus the four-ish kilos of previous months. I’m not doing anything differently but I suppose it’s appropriate to be levelling out as I approach the midpoint of the healthy zone. I’m glad to still be making progress even if it’s increasingly gradual.

Children of Memory continues to continue and I’ve become a bit confused about what’s going on. I’m powering through on the assumption I’m supposed to be confused; I have just enough media literacy (book literacy? literacy?) to recognise unreliable narration. Still, it feels like hard work when my dopamine-addled brain is already struggling to keep track of everyone’s names & timelines and pay attention consistently so I don’t zone out for a minute and miss a major plot point. Maybe I’m illiterate after all.

Season two of The Last of Us finished. You’ll be relieved to hear I don’t have much to say about it, other than I thought the whole season was great and I’m looking forward to the next one.

I’m surprised how closely they stuck to the game’s story structure, and I wonder how well that structure works in a non-interactive medium for people who don’t already know what’s going to happen, but for me it’s been a very enjoyable adaptation of one of my all-time favourites.

I watched the final five episodes of Andor and then Rogue One. It goes without saying that I didn’t follow most of the details — for me these Star Wars shows are a perpetual battle to remember & care who Glup Shitto is and which side he’s on — but as a casual viewer it was spectacular and thrilling and, well, better than Star Wars, and the film topped it off nicely.

Now that the prequel film has a full prequel series of its own, the urgent question is: what’s the best order to watch them in? Starting with Andor seems natural, with Rogue One as its feature-length finale, but then it’s hard to feel the emotional impact of the show introducing (say) ███ or ███ when you’ve no idea why they’re significant. If you watch Rogue One first then you already know everyone’s fate and that might undermine Andor’s dramatic stakes. Doubtless some nerd has ruled authoritatively on this matter.

I asked my toilet paper people why the latest toilet paper delivery came via Evri (bad) instead of the usual Packfleet (good). They replied with a forlorn apology saying that Packfleet have gone out of business. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I really enjoyed Every 5x5 Nonogram but found it a bit too addictive and had to cut myself off after solving 250 of them.