Week notes 2026-45
As is tradition, I forgot that November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. I tend to get confused because "Purple Day" is in March, and I think March is also recognized as epilepsy awareness month. Who cares, we can have two months! Most people don't know about it either way (and those of us with epilepsy often forget — fittingly). Naturally as I go back to an old routine for the week, I forgot to grab my medication. I'll have to take it an hour or so late, but I'll be OK. As long as I don't get to 24 hours between doses.
Happenings
- My new phone arrived
- There have been some issues with getting my father-in-law into a nursing home; he can't come back home, because his leg was amputated and neither the house nor us are equipped to handle this major change. He should be in a home by the end of the month, though.
- I realized that I need to do regular "quad rolls" exercises or my right hamstring really starts to bother me.
- Woops, I left my roller with my in-laws, so unless I go to the gym this week (unlikely) I'll have to improvise something
- I was also thinking about how I stand, and how if I straighten my feet it feels like I'm pointing my feet and legs inward, but that is definitely not the case.
Other stuff (media etc.)
- I have a basic star-rating framework set up for my music rating. I'll write a post later about it.
- Last night (Sunday) I continued some PS2 emulator and PS5 controller experimentation. So far it seems that as long as I keep the controller close to the macbook (or maybe even connected via USB cable), everything is responsive and virtually no button lag.
- I was humbled last night playing on "Pro" mode in MVP Baseball 2005; I need to build my skills back up! I used to find it somewhat easy on the hardest difficulty level.
- I really like how much easier it is to read things on my new phone, as well as write. I wrote an entire blog post in Obsidian. I edited it later on a larger screen, but I had the screen real estate to type and not feel like everything was crammed in.
- Related to the new phone: I discovered that using magnetic accessories messes with the S Pen. I found out when I was trying to write something while testing a magnetic pop socket. It writes as though your pen was running out of ink.