Today:

Back to reality after a week of Spring Break. Spent most of it catching up on reading and taming the backyard. All the while Oklahoma has apparently decided to simply skip spring and head right into summer. Now that we’re past the true beginning of spring we might as well have high temperatures in the upper 90s. None of this should be normal, but it is seemingly going to become our new normal without much protest.

Status:

Sore, a week of weeding, cutting down bushes, and moving mulch and top soil makes you sore.

Reading:

I rebooted the BOOX Palma I bought to try and avoid screen time and then quickly discarded. A phone sized e-ink reader gave me so much joy at the thought of it and then using it was less than ideal. It was kind of slow, the text would skip, so it just sat unused and dead on my bed side table. Charged it this week and have used it for reading prior to bed. It runs Android 11, which hasn’t been supported since 2024, so I assume it’s EOL is pretty soon. I doubt I’ll be buying another given the fact that the Palma 2 runs Android 13 which ended support at the start of the month. The Palma 2 Pro with color e-ink runs Android 15 and BOOX doesn’t seem to push new versions out.

Listening:

I got all caught up on the podcasts and then lost that by the end of last week. I should recharge my old beats that stay on the ear for yard work because too often the airpods just fall out so I just don’t use them.

Last Watched:

Spring Break was spent getting through the first season of The Pitt, which is the newest show I’ve watched in quite a while. It’s fast-paced, entertaining use of time, although one I’m sure isn’t particularly, uh, real. That being said, the show does cram so much in it makes it overwhelming at times. In the first season it was how many current events can we smash into one 15 hour day. The answer was a lot, and most of them were treated with a heavy hand. I won’t spoil anything, but there was a point in every episode seemingly made for people to scream at the TV.