§ Rabbit rabbit. Happy December.
§ Thanksgiving seems to get increasingly busy each year. Thursday was the 49th annual gathering of three dozen extended family members at an aunts farmhouse out in the far eastern rural badlands of Ohio. I brought my largest batch of cranberry sauce to date, made from scratch out of six pounds of cranberries.
§ Black Friday is one of those days that all of those old companies I never realized had my email address come out of the woodwork to really make that fact known. I unsubscribed from a lot of mailing lists over the past week. It feels good.
Each year Apple moves the line a little bit further in regards to how much advertising they’ll push to iPhones. This year they decided to send me a push notification through the Apple Store app advertising their Black Friday sales which feels like at least a step or two too far.
§ As mentioned previously, I’ve completed the daily crossword on Puzzmo for more than a year now. Before starting, I had close to zero experience with crosswords.
I finally went though the trouble—and it was a decent amount of trouble since Puzzmo doesn’t have a public API or any supported method to export personal data—to graph the history of my score over time. It confirms a gradual improvement, from an average daily score around 3000 points per game to almost 4000 today. It is less of a dramatic improvement than I feel like I’ve made but it is nevertheless nice to see.
§ Sure, yeah, the new season of Silo is pretty good but honestly I’ve really just been watching a lot of Limmy’s Show. Unfortunately, I can’t find anywhere online that I can officially stream, rent, or purchase it so I have to rely on random YouTube uploads.
§ I also watched Kiki’s Delivery Service after listening to the ATP special discussing it. It was extremely charming.
§ I very rarely buy myself clothes but I have a soft spot for sweaters which I bought five of this week. Five.
§ The wait is finally over: I got my film back. It’s hard for it all to not be at least slightly anticlimactic after waiting almost three weeks to see a few dozen photos, especially when the reality is that only a small handful of those will be real keepers. Still, it was particularly fascinating to run color film though my camera. I don’t think I’ve ever done it before?
Getting these photos back renewed my excitement to finish my current roll of Portra 800. My next roll after that will probably be something lower speed—a few of my Cinestill 800 shots were a bit too grainy for my taste.
