§ This week has been a bit of a blur thanks in no small part to temperatures ping-ponging more than 30 degrees day-to-day taking my sinuses on a wild ride. Last week when I mentioned how much I love spring I had forgotten all about this part.
§ After work on Monday Caroline and I finally—finally—braced the lovecraftian horror of our local Verizon store to upgrade her old iPhone 11 with a 17. I’m excited to finally get rid of all of our old lightning cables.
§ At work I finally finished a side project I’ve been chipping away at for the past couple of months: a large custom navigational sign that lists all of our daily events.
The main structure is a 6-foot-tall magnetic steel sheet and each event has its own custom magnetic tile loosely styled after various block-coding elements.
I wanted something that could communicate relationship and hierarchy while staying intuitive to read—a location contains various events and each event can have any number of times associated with it.
Each tile is magnetic so they can easily be rearranged each day and since they are made out of laser-engraved two-color acrylic it is easy to produce new pieces over time as events evolve.
§ I have to say that the new James Blake album I was harshly critical of last week has started to grow on me. My apologies to James. This tendency to rush to judgement is just one reason among many that I am not a professional music reviewer.
§ I’m obliged to let you know a new Longmont Potion Castle album has been released. This one is even better than usual.
§ I’ve been watching The Traitors (UK) which is, without a doubt, some fun low-stakes, high-drama television. However, I going to loose my mind if I hear one more person say “I’m voting for yourself” instead of “I’m voting for you.” I might need to borrow the program Tom wrote to track contestant’s egregious use of percentages so that I can make a supercut of all of the many “yourselfs.”
