I am constantly looking for a better sound experience (likely to my detriment) and I feel like Sonos has righted itself enough in the past year with Tom Conrad at the helm. Do I make another investment in upgraded gear from them finally?
Finally managed to catch a home game with the Blue Jays where they won. And it was against the Yankees. Huzzah!
Go Jays go! ⚾️
All the WWDC stuff announced this year suggests my new desktop purchase might be worthwhile. I just need to make all the new stuff purposeful for me. That’ll be the trick. It always is.
Took the plunge and purchased a Mac Studio. They’ve been relatively hard to come by lately (at least a refurbished one) and figured I might as well finally jump up a few generations from my MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) for some more punch.
This game seven between the Habs and Sabres is quite the show. Overtime has been nothing short of exciting!
The act of leaving my last job and starting a new one has felt so foreign to me, but everything has gone smoothly so far. I took some time between jobs to decompress, which was all too necessary.
The last few weeks has been on-boarding tasks. Again, foreign feeling. I will get there.
Getting back to the old days of gaming
With the price of RAM, GPUs, and storage reaching new heights, I think I found my solution: retro gaming. I bought an Analogue Pocket a few years ago and it mostly sat in a drawer doing nothing. The last few weeks have been heavily occupied with Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. The game has really impressed me. I never played it back when it came out having never really been into the Castlevania series at all. Clearly a mistake on my part! I get why the genre is called Metroidvania. I honestly never associated Metroid and Castlevania at all.
Children of Time
Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚
A friend of mine had recommended this book a few months back and I finally got around to powering through it in just a handful of days. Very quick read. Extraordinarily fun for sci-fi lovers, but you certainly have to be okay with spiders. So many spiders! I will have to see if the additional books in the series are worthwhile.
Finished reading: Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison 📚
Just finished this up last night and had a wonderful time reading it. I wasn’t familiar with his work, but he seemingly kept coming up in my wanders recently. I will have to seek out more of his work this year.
Somehow we’re already a week into the first month of the new year. If this is any measure of how the year is going to go, I think it may be faster than the last. Is that what I’m left with as I get older? Years just keep moving faster?
Finished reading: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-Hee [백세희] 📚
This was a very interesting read for me. A lot of the author’s conversations with her therapist felt all too familiar to me. It pains me that she passed earlier this year at such a young age. She clearly was a brave sort putting something so bare and personal forward to the world. Something that so many try to pretend doesn’t exist or that isn’t shared by so many.
We live in a truly surreal time. While I was walking home the other day, the reality of the fact that almost anything is available at my fingertips really struck me. I know it’s not novel by any means, but it really sunk in. We clearly weren’t designed for this reality.
Finished reading: On Drugs by Justin Smith-Ruiu 📚
This was an interesting read. Not sure how well I am designed for philosophy books, but I took one for a spin. Worth a read if you’re curious about psychedelics.
I have spent the last few nights doing that whole revenge sleep procrastination thing. Work has been a little too much the last few days and certainly last week.