weeknotes 50

I like doing #weeknotes on Fridays, but putting this one out early because I have meetings and a long tattoo session tomorrow! I'm starting a back tattoo, which feels like a (tm) Big Deal. It's a really beautiful crane. A little plain to begin with, but I have other tattoos that the tattooer needs to work around, so we can always build more around it later. This is going to be at least a three month project, so also plenty of time to think on it!

This week was rough mentally. Just a little dip in the depression pool, but nothing dire. I missed a coworker's going away celebration, which I'm a little frustrated with myself about. We started in our current position at the same time, so just kind of rude of me not to show up. The fog of a little depression episode is rough...like, what happened this week?

Another thing that I'm running into is boredom. This is by design as I want to get myself to place where I'm reading again and, more importantly, writing. I don't think there's anything particularly, like, valorous about Not Consuming Media (tm), but I have had a long period of letting that fill my time in—not an unproductive way because I reject needing to be productive all the time—but an unfulfilling way. The junk food of it all. Being bored sucks, though! Small steps. I want to write about this more, so I'll draft something up longform.

I think I've settled on using Zotero for a zettelkasten system. I'm reworking my approach and engagement with academic texts. I want a different way to think and think about those kinds of works, so I like the idea of a zettelkasten for this. Zotero I really haven't thought about in, like, a decade, but as a library management system through which I can take linked notes...it seems perfect. It feels meaningfully distinct from just a file system browser and a bit more useful in being able to link texts in Zotero as well as in the notes.

[bearblog] admin stuff: I keep tinkering with the pages, but I'm pretty happy with where they're at. I'm really, really happy with / links . At first I thought annotated links were too much, but it is nice just to put a little comment with them. The / uses page feels so boring—I don't know!—with just Apple stuff...looking forward to the eventual shift to Linux, but I don't plan on doing that till my 2022 MacBook stops getting support.