Weeknotes 330

A sunny bank holiday weekend. Wahoo.

Three gyms. A man reading his phone, one-handed, for an hour on the treadmill. Six and a half hours of Children of Strife left.

No statistically significant progress on weight loss this week. The routine is still making me feel better so I’m sticking at it.

The short ride in on Wednesday was a challenge because the wind whipped up the plane tree trichomes and made it difficult to see and breathe, both of which I need to do to cycle safely. By the time I got to the office I was coughing and my eyes were watering.

Thursday brought a welcome change of pace as I schlepped over to Battersea to spend the morning at an in-person (!) training course. It was nice to do something different and I found it much easier to pay attention to a live human in the room than an image on a computer screen, although having to participate in small-group exercises with strangers is sort of my worst nightmare. This was session one of three so it remains to be seen if I’ll summon the courage to get there on my bike instead of the Northern line next time.

I’ve long thought it’d be fun to get the parliamentary service to Battersea Park for trips like this, but that’d involve arriving at 22:48 the night before and returning at 23:03 the following evening, so it’s a bit too inconvenient even for the obviously major lols.

Today I popped over to Stratford for another Yokimono Japanese market. As before I had a very enjoyable lunch of a tofu sushi burrito from Drumsco, a mochi anpan from Gu Choki Pan and the most delicious fresh strawberry mochi I’ve ever tasted from Fruit Mochi NAKANA. It felt good to wander around in the sun for a bit despite how rammed it was.

VALIDATION CORNER: Dan sent a post in which The AV Club agrees with me about For All Mankind. Love it obviously. I haven’t watched this week’s episode yet.

I exhausted my backlog of The Unmade Podcast and had to join their Patreon so I could download their many hours of bonus episodes. So I’m okay again for now, but when those run out I’m going to be in trouble. Maybe I’ll just start again from the beginning.

I began a comfort playthrough of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. It still looks great (especially at 60 FPS) and feels fun. I miss the straightforward enjoyment of this sort of thing. Heretic Prophet when?

I keep forgetting to play Neva: Prologue for some reason. I loved the original game so this one’s probably a no-brainer.

I watched 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and found it unexpectedly good and funny in places. It’s clearly a bit silly but works on its own terms, and it definitely helps that it looks so good. I gasped at the end! I actually want to see the next one! (I hope there’ll be a next one.)

I also saw Sorry, Baby and loved it. It’s well-written, genuinely funny, beautifully shot and performed, just a solid ninety minutes of being completely engrossed by something awful. It’s increasingly rare that I feel connected with characters but this one really got me.

I upgraded to Git v2.54 but have so far failed to try git history because git rebase -⁠-⁠interactive is so ingrained in my muscle memory. I might need to train myself by aliasing rebase to print an annoying reminder, like I did to retire checkout in favour of switch & restore, although a significant minority of my history-rewriting probably does need the full capability of rebase -⁠-⁠interactive so I can’t go cold turkey this time.