Week Notes 2026-13
I forgot to listen to the new album from Cannons last week! It released on Friday March 27th. It's written right there, in my planner, but I never got around to it. I will do that today, and it'll probably be my last album for Q1 2026. A fun thing that happened this week was that I was able to bring out a new notebook for journaling. I finished one of the old ones I was finishing up that had been partially filled. This notebook I grabbed is the same type but a different colour. It shouldn't take me long to fill up.
But most importantly Thursday March 26th was Purple Day! My wife and I visited the City of Ottawa sign to see it lit purple; I shared some pictures in my post about epilepsy awareness month.
On Tuesday I finally applied a new screen protector to my phone; the previous one was cracked and had been for ~2 years. It's a hard plastic as opposed to tempered glass, so that I can still use my fingerprint sensor. But now I am cursed with constant screen wiping and fastidious weekly cleaning of my clear case with dish soap. I also finished clearing out my CD jewel cases Tuesday night, so that project is pretty much done. My wife wants me to do the same with her CDs so that's yet to be done but at least now I reclaimed some shelf space in the basement to help organize things and purge some more. Baby steps.
I got the idea late in the week to bring a film camera on our upcoming trip to PEI. It would be easy enough to just get a disposable camera but I would probably want to use film again so it makes more sense to find something I can re-use. It's possible my old film camera is in my parents' house somewhere but I've turned to Facebook Marketplace to find something inexpensive (I'm not getting an SLR or anything - just a cheap point & shoot). I see one for $40 that I've asked about - we'll see how that goes. I suppose eBay is an option, too.
And baseball is back! The Blue Jays had an exciting opening weekend, sweeping the Athletics in 3 games.
Some things I want to try:
- Photograph something daily/monthly/weekly for a year (haven't sorted out the frequency)
- Do something daily - dunno what. One subject idea involves the baseball season (so doing something 162 times, but not necessarily daily).
2026 projects and goals
Last week's goals
- Log calories every day ❌
- Try to record podcast ❌
- Increase step goal to 7000 ✅
Eh...not so great. I started off strong with the calorie logging but dropped off Friday night / Saturday. Didn't log anything at all on Sunday. BUT I logged 4/7 days, that's above .500 in my book. But my steps have been consistent. It looks like I missed my goal on the 28th, but I remember hitting the goal. I guess not. 6 out of 7 days I was above 7000 steps (new target), with 3 days at 10k+.
I didn't get to recording a podcast. I've got my booklet with me, and should I stop feeling self-conscious about it I'll step into one of the production studios and start the voice recorder.
This week's goals
- Be consistent with calorie logging
- Keep step streak going
Link Rolloff
Links removed from my Shared Links on Raindrop
- Thinking about the Nokia N95 | Whatever the Wind Brings - Found this on Bear's discovery feed in July. I didn't have this specific Nokia, but I owned at least 2 (possibly 3, but I don't know with certainty if the one I'm thinking about is a Nokia). Now I wish I had this one, that camera looks pretty good.
- How I use my Bullet Journal - This doesn't contain any information I didn't already know about bullet journals, but I always love reading how other people are using theirs. As I experiment with a pre-printed planner this year I keep thinking about going back to bullet journals. I like the idea of taking tasks from the journal and "porting" them to a task app. I might do this.
- Indeed recruiter text scam: I responded to one of the “job” messages. It got weird quickly. - One of those "leading a scammer along" posts. Looks like it's behind a semi-pay wall, put your browser in Reading Mode and you should be able to read the whole thing.