This week in squirrels…

Summary

  • low energy
    • Sunday, I was hoping to be so productive, but then after my stream, I got stuck, and I didn’t even post my blog!
    • Things did not pick up energy-wise because of the following tasks
  • Underwater at work
    • After taking the week after the summit off, I came back to tonnes and tonnes to catch up on… but sadly not enough on the project I was working on.
    • I ended up having to take two days to do massive refactoring and fixes to get the project back to where we wanted it over a week ago.
  • Bandcamp Friday!
    • I have so many albums I have wanted to buy in the last two days, but NOOOOOOOOOO it’s Bandcamp Friday this week, and I have to wait with great anticipation!
    • It reminded me of having to go out to the record store or Hot Topic and find your stuff for a month or so.
  • Freaking Framework
    • Seriously, what is it with them and shipping? After my laptop arrived in mid-November, I immediately placed an order for more RAM and some additional modules. 5 business days with expedited shipping has turned into 15 business days and dead silence.
    • Of course, now ram prices have blown up in the last week, so I assume they decided to silently never ship my order because they can resell my order for way more while never actually acknowledging the money I already gave them.
    • After emailing them, they told me they have to escalate it, but the escalation team is all out for two weeks (in December), so…. the heck?

Books

  • I Wanna Be Your Girl Vol 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    • A book about trans experience and queer friendship building that I rated five stars? Yep. This first book is perfect: sound art, amazing, well-informed stories. Feel good with the pains? Yes.
  • I Wanna Be Your Girl Volume 2 ⭐⭐⭐
    • I took a whole star off because the ebook version of this is misprinted, so all the pages are arranged backwards, making it a pain to read
    • The story is also more fragmented as we pull in a lot of characters. Some of them don’t feel as well-written as the initial cast. But overall, there is still some absolutely amazing character development from the now leading quartet of girls.

Music

I didn’t listen to much new music because Bandcamp Friday was coming up, halting music sales for me for a few weeks.

  • Danny Brown’s Stardust
    • I have been lost in how good this is
  • spellcasting
    • Still into this fun and goofy
  • Vylet Pony’s Monarch of Monsters
    • Somebody recommended this to me, and I expected some underground EBM or hyperpop. Still, I ended up with this huge rock album full of experimental and heavy story elements, and I was blown away. This one is a shocker of how deep and powerful it is. I am legit shocked this hasn’t blown up more.

Reads and Videos

Quote of the Week

Do your best & Advocate for the rest

  • Shelbizleee