Weeknotes 155

Mood: Generally a bit fucked-off.

Mocha-gate – One of the USB-C ports is now being flaky. I’ve bought some “contact cleaner” to see if a little spray of that will do the job. Some keys still sticking too. I’m typing in a particularly aggressive way as a result.

Work has been stressful this week. I am starting a larger piece of work and I’m paralysed. Why? I know that I can do this work, but I’m completely stuck. And this happens every time.

It’s hard to explain the toll it takes because obviously my life is easy in many ways, but the affect on my self-esteem has been life-long and I’m really sick of it. I just want to work on stuff and make progress. I know rationally that none of this matters, but it still causes great anguish for me and those around me.

I’m dreading next week; that will help.

The long-awaited chair arrived. I gave it a quick look over and it seems to be a good replacement, but I haven’t had any time to set it up properly yet. It seems like they’re letting me keep the old chair too – CASHBACK.

The second set of guests visited this week. It was very nice to see them and we had a good time. This was our first guests staying with us at the house, which was a bit weird as I’m not used to a full house.

We managed to snag a second sofa off of Facebook Marketplace and hired a van to go and pick it up. With the sofa, a new rug, and a lamp, the front room is feeling a lot more homely than it was and allowed our house guests to sit down.

A parental visit coming up this week (why did we arrange guests on consecutive weekends for a month?), but this time I will be doing the driving back and forth. It’s very nice to see everyone and I really appreciate the efforts people have made, but I think we did a bad job at planning all these visits so close together. I feel like a need to sit and stare at the wall for a bit.

Due to children being present during our last visit I decided to setup my Nintendo Switch in an attempt to entertain them should it be necessary. They didn’t seem bothered, but I have been playing it a bit instead, and with one of this batch of guests.

It is undeniable how good Mario Kart 8 is.

Sans Bullshit Sans

The font that replaces every buzzword by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar

macOS Sequoia will soon be with us so I might consider upgrading to Sonama soon ;)