Weeknote for 10/6/2024

Productivity

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As a way to prioritize, I analyzed the rest of my dashboards in Notion for tasks that would make them more usable. Most of the week this project was competing with other evening activities plus fatigue, so I didn’t get much done, but I got through this round of analysis and started matching my ideas with items in my task database. The next tasks are to (1) finish matching and creating tasks, (2) try relating them to each other with Notion’s dependency view, and (3) get a sense from that of what I should focus on next. For the next few weeks at least, this project will have to take a backseat to the election and holidays, but hopefully I can spend some morning project time on it.

Video

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I spent my workdays in vaporwave liminal spaces with NightDriveProphecy’s videos as my wallpaper. My grand plan for October this year is to dig into the Wikidot version of the Backrooms by listening through a bunch of the levels to get more familiar with the territory, but until I get that set up, I’m wandering other liminal spaces. I ran across this channel a while back with its ＥＴＥＲＮ  Ａ  Ｌ ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ™ video, and last week I binged a bunch of its others. I like to imagine that whatever’s on my desktop background, that’s where I’m working. So last week I did a lot of “travel” for work to a bunch of slightly surreal malls, superstores, aquariums, spas, water parks, museums, resorts, and random people’s weird homes. The videos are basically slide shows with a background song for each image, so later I’ll be mining their playlists for additions to my Backrooms music.

Nature

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I think there were bald eagles at one of my weekly parks. I saw a big bird circling in the sky and thought it was the usual hawk, which I’d seen earlier flying low through the park, but then I realized this new bird was dark with a bright white tail, and then I realized its white head probably meant bald eagle! So out came my phone for a video. I only noticed one until I looked back at the video and saw another farther in the distance. I knew there were bald eagles in this region, but I always think of them as “somewhere else,” not places I frequent. But my boss, who lives near that park, told me the eagles sometimes nest on the light poles there, so maybe I’m in for a closer look!

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