Weeknotes 3.1
- Four and a half years later, let’s resurrect the weeknotes. The booknotes will continue as normal (and maybe someday I’ll wise up and start writing them as soon as I finish each book, rather than weeks later), as will the link posts (though probably at a slower pace). I don’t know yet if these weeknotes will be posted weekly or on some other, more creative cadence.
- Lately I’ve been rediscovering the joy of writing in a paper notebook (as opposed to the web apps I’ve built) and have been stocking up on Field Notes notebooks. My favorites so far are the National Parks sets.
- As part of that, I’ve also recently realized that a 0.3mm or 0.4mm pen is a much better fit for my now-rather-small handwriting than the 0.5mm Pilot Precise pen I’ve been using for eons, where the strokes are just a bit too thick for how small I’m writing.
- I’ve also been scanning the dozen or so Field Notes that I filled around 2008–2013. In one of those notebooks I came across my sketches from October 2010 where I started using the abstract circles, which was fun to see; I’d completely forgotten that I had sketched out First Vision Triptych on paper beforehand.
- My wife and I recently watched Conclave and loved it.
- If you’re in the Salt Lake area, Wanyen is a lovely Thai ice cream shop that recently opened, and they have durian ice cream! Not only that, but it tastes exactly like durian; it’s even texturally similar. Yes, I’m a weirdo. And yes, eating that ice cream totally made my day. It was so good. (They also have other flavors, like ube, and a coconut/jackfruit/taro mix that we liked. And they have both ube and pandan waffle cones. This shop was made for me.)
- I promise I don’t only eat ice cream, but the rosewater and cardamom ice cream at Afghan Kitchen (also in Salt Lake) was lovely, too.