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l33tminion) wrote2022-04-24 08:51 pm
l33tminion) wrote2022-04-24 08:51 pm
Busy Relaxation
Current answer to "how bad will this second wave of COVID Omicron be here" seems to be "maybe not too bad???" Cases are starting to turn down in our area at a fraction of the previous peak, hopefully the end of the school break won't turn that around much.
Anyways, the rest of our vacation turned out all right. Got in a visit to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (pretty amazing, saw a very cute baby gorilla), the Shaker Heights Nature Center (much changed since I was last there), and Brandywine Falls (short hike there was pleasant though muddy). I did have time for some of the media I wanted to get around to. I finished Man in the High Castle (a reasonably good adaptation of the source material, I thought, stuck the landing well enough), started season 5 of Better Call Saul (still great), started playing 13 Sentinels (don't know if I'll be able to finish it), started reading Dreyer's English (a memoir / writing style advice book that's pretty funny if you're into that sort of thing, certainly relevant to my interests). The trip back was at least calm, and I definitely appreciated the tighter transit connection to the airport.
On Saturday, Julie took kid out to play Pikmin all morning, and I took her to meet up at the park with her friend Sol in the afternoon. On Sunday, I took her out for lunch at James Hook + Co. (Erica amusingly read the sign as "James Hook and dot com"), then to Martin's Park, where yellow daffodils still lined the path from the recent occasion of the marathon, and the Children's Museum. PAX East is this weekend, and we randomly ran into Matt C. (an Olin classmate) on the T on our way to the museum. I'd forgotten all about PAX this year, would've been fun to do some of the Magic events there this year especially with the weekend coinciding with the new set's prerelease.
Next weekend, I will (if all goes well) be going to PyCon in Salt Lake City. Things were looking a bit better COVID-wise when I made that plan (which seems to be the case always). I was really looking forward to PyCon 2020, which was going to be the first PyCon after the pretty-much-for-real demise of Python 2, and I was sad that neither of the planned PyCons in Pittsburgh happened in anywhere in particular.
I kind of want to revive my essay blog, which I recently migrated from Squarespace to Wordpress, but have not actually updated since 2019. Haven't had the energy. But at least I'm able to write this. Eris had an exciting day, and was asleep at 8:30. I'm doing a bit of cooking, pulled pork in the Instant Pot, advance prep for dinner tomorrow.
Anyways, the rest of our vacation turned out all right. Got in a visit to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (pretty amazing, saw a very cute baby gorilla), the Shaker Heights Nature Center (much changed since I was last there), and Brandywine Falls (short hike there was pleasant though muddy). I did have time for some of the media I wanted to get around to. I finished Man in the High Castle (a reasonably good adaptation of the source material, I thought, stuck the landing well enough), started season 5 of Better Call Saul (still great), started playing 13 Sentinels (don't know if I'll be able to finish it), started reading Dreyer's English (a memoir / writing style advice book that's pretty funny if you're into that sort of thing, certainly relevant to my interests). The trip back was at least calm, and I definitely appreciated the tighter transit connection to the airport.
On Saturday, Julie took kid out to play Pikmin all morning, and I took her to meet up at the park with her friend Sol in the afternoon. On Sunday, I took her out for lunch at James Hook + Co. (Erica amusingly read the sign as "James Hook and dot com"), then to Martin's Park, where yellow daffodils still lined the path from the recent occasion of the marathon, and the Children's Museum. PAX East is this weekend, and we randomly ran into Matt C. (an Olin classmate) on the T on our way to the museum. I'd forgotten all about PAX this year, would've been fun to do some of the Magic events there this year especially with the weekend coinciding with the new set's prerelease.
Next weekend, I will (if all goes well) be going to PyCon in Salt Lake City. Things were looking a bit better COVID-wise when I made that plan (which seems to be the case always). I was really looking forward to PyCon 2020, which was going to be the first PyCon after the pretty-much-for-real demise of Python 2, and I was sad that neither of the planned PyCons in Pittsburgh happened in anywhere in particular.
I kind of want to revive my essay blog, which I recently migrated from Squarespace to Wordpress, but have not actually updated since 2019. Haven't had the energy. But at least I'm able to write this. Eris had an exciting day, and was asleep at 8:30. I'm doing a bit of cooking, pulled pork in the Instant Pot, advance prep for dinner tomorrow.