2025-06-24 04:08:00
It’s been a few weeks, but I finally made a new Weeknotes post!
I got out of the groove there for a bit, but I’m back with a little update on what I’ve been up to lately.
2025-06-24 04:04:00
It’s been four weeks since my last weeknotes post, the longest stretch without a weekly update since I started doing these back in April 2023.
✈️ Memorial Day (May 26) was a travel day. We returned from Move Abroad Con with a ton of actionable information. Living abroad once seemed like a fantasy, but now seems not only achievable but also very close.
🇲🇽 At very short notice, I booked travel to Mexico to do some scouting. Over the course of five days, my hosts took me to several areas in and around Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. It was a busy trip, but I returned with some new long-distance friends and even more actionable information. I took a few pictures, which you can see here, here, and here. But I think I still have more that I haven’t posted yet.
📷 As much as I loved it (I really did) I decided to sell my Fujifilm X-T4 mirrorless camera. It gave me nearly four years of beautiful images, but after I picked up a used X-E3 last year the bigger, bulkier X-T4 just didn’t get as much use. Sure the X-E3 is older and has a few weaknesses, but it’s just fun to shoot. I decided a while ago that if they ever came out with an updated X-E with a 40MP sensor and better recipe support I’d grab one. And that’s exactly what happened two weeks ago. I pre-ordered the new X-E5 on launch day and said goodby to the X-T4. Now I just have to wait patiently until at least August.
⚾️ My daughter is doing a summer internship as a photographer for a minor league baseball team called the Lake Erie Crushers. We took time out on a Sunday afternoon to drive up there and take in a game. I gotta tell ya, I’ve been to a lot of sporting events over the years and I don’t think anything is as much fun as a minor league baseball game. Everything is just so relaxed and informal. And you can really enjoy baseball as it was meant to be enjoyed, without pressure and with a beer.
🗣️ You might recall a while ago I asked folks for their opinion about whether to prioritize “fun” or “usefulness” when choosing which language I should study. 49 people responded and the majority favoring fun! I really appreciated all the good feedback I got and it helped me to make up my mind. In case you’re curious, I’m going to resume my study of (Latin American) Spanish. Other contenders were Chinese, Italian, and French.
I made yet another change to my weblog workflow. In an effort to make things easier for myself, I wrote a Lambda function that pulls the contents of my Mastodon toots into this blog as posts (tagged “Microblog”). This way, I can easily author short posts that may or may not include images with much less effort than would otherwise be required using the web interface. (And no, I’m not doing static content management using GitHub like some other fancy people on here are doing.) But I am looking forward to new hacking opportunities promised by Neato. Some day, lawd.
Posted reviews of The Residence and Snow White.
Finished Hacks season 4. Already looking forward to season 5!
Started watching a couple of old shows: Blue Bloods and Alias. How do Tom Selleck and Jennifer Garner never age?!
This is Why Your Fujifilm JPEGs are Lacking | Dynamic Range Explained by Chris Hagan
“Right back at ya! Trump’s crude but effective rhetorical standby” by Chris Taylor (The Guardian)
“Why Gen X is the real loser generation” from The Economist
That about sums it up. I had a lot going on there for a few weeks and I really got out of my groove with respect to journaling. But I’m going to clear out my /now page and open a new entry in Day One and start fresh! Talk to you next week.
2025-06-24 03:15:00
Snow White
I know this is a repeat, so just bear with me. I’m testing again.
2025-06-23 22:11:00
Review: The Residence
This is a clever, funny whodunit that will appeal to those whose taste in comedy tends to the dry side. We’re talking desert-like dryness here. I would welcome another season following Detective Cordelia Cupp exercise the little grey cells.
2025-06-22 19:57:00
If you’re a web designer responsible for disallowing paste in a credit card field, then I wish a plague upon your house.
