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<time datetime="2024-12-01T00:00:00&#43;00:00">December 1, 2024</time>
<h1>my voice moved hades so he extinguished the fire (week notes 015)</h1>
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<li>Joe and I ran a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. My time was not good (40:38), but there was wet, heavy snow coming down, so I was mostly focused on not eating shit. I think mid-November might be my 5K cutoff. We otherwise stayed home for the holiday and spent some much needed time relaxing together.</li>
<li>With the holiday season upon us, this is usually around the time that I take a big trip out to a nearby mall to get gifts for everyone. I want to commit this year to shopping mostly (entirely?) from local small businesses or buying handmade and secondhand goods. I&rsquo;m happy to live in a town with a great Main Street, and I want to stop dumping my money into corporations.
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<li>I did order a bunch of rechargeable batteries from Amazon for Black Friday, but that was the extent of my shopping.</li>
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<li>I miss podcasting again. I&rsquo;ve run a few podcasts over the years, which all petered out for various reasons, but I&rsquo;m feeling the itch again. I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d podcast about, though, which runs contrary to popular logic: you should have something to say, not just the desire to say things. I love audio production and the sound of my own voice, though.
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<li>Maybe I record audio versions of my blog posts and turn that into a podcast? I want to write more, after all. I don&rsquo;t think my week notes would be conducive to an audio format, but maybe my longer form writing (what little of it exists).</li>
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<li>I bought a camera (Panasonic Lumix G7) on a bit of a whim. I film a lot of videos for my school, so I guess there&rsquo;s professional utility in using something other than my phone, but I also want to get better about taking pictures to preserve memories.</li>
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<h1 id="watching">Watching</h1>
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<li>On Saturday, I felt sick and rotted on the couch and watched YouTube junkfood: mostly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@outsidexbox">outsidexbox</a>&rsquo;s seven things videos and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@MachoNachoProductions">Macho Nacho</a> console mod videos.
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<li>I don&rsquo;t mod consoles. I like to tinker with electronics, but I&rsquo;ve never soldered anything. Somehow, however, I find myself watching a lot of these sorts of videos. I think I admire the production value and Tito&rsquo;s calm, measured approach.</li>
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<li>I&rsquo;m about done with <strong><em>Daria</em></strong>, but I haven&rsquo;t watched the movies yet.</li>
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<h1 id="reading">Reading</h1>
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<li><strong><em>Into the Wild</em> by John Krakauer.</strong> As a kid, the film adaptation was on frequent rotation in my house; my mom often fixated on one movie and watched it over and over, and she was a big fan of the soundtrack as well. I&rsquo;ve always wanted to read the book since, and I&rsquo;m trying again to commit to reading more now that the start of school year frenzy has died down for me. I&rsquo;m enjoying following McCandless&rsquo;s story and don&rsquo;t think Krakauer too effusive (though his biases are clear), but some of the tangents feel extraneous.
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<li><strong>Finished on November 28.</strong> A humanizing and sympathetic account of a controversial figure. A few meandering chapters, but there are — in McCandless&rsquo;s case especially — wrong turns taken in pursuit of truth, meaning, and beauty.</li>
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<li>I&rsquo;ve ordered Charlotte Brontë&rsquo;s <strong><em>Villette</em></strong> through my local bookstore as an upcoming read on the recommendation of a student&rsquo;s parent. I&rsquo;m also interested in getting my hands on <strong><em>The Dead Father</em></strong> by David Barthelme after reading an excerpt in <em>Into the Wild.</em></li>
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<h1 id="playing">Playing</h1>
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<li><strong><em>Satisfactory.</em></strong> Just a few months before the pandemic, while I was in grad school, I fell deeply in love with <em>Satisfactory</em> and attempted in vain to explain to my literary and well-rounded colleagues that I was spending my free time balancing my iron production pipelines and converting from biomass energy to coal. I dipped my toe in a few more times after my mania but resolved to wait until 1.0 as many of my production lines would need to be seriously re-tooled. Joe suggested we start a co-op save this week and I am back and thriving.
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<li>We did get into a brief, heated conflict over manifold (my preference) versus balanced production, an argument all couples experience at some point in their relationship, I&rsquo;m sure.</li>
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<li>I played a little but more of <strong><em>Pokémon Crystal</em></strong>, but I&rsquo;m at a point where I have to grind out levels to take on the next gym, which I&rsquo;m supremely uninterested in doing. Maybe I&rsquo;ll just hack my save.</li>
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<h1 id="listening">Listening</h1>
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<li>I downloaded the <em>Satisfactory</em> soundtrack and have had that on in the background — it&rsquo;s very good. Otherwise, I&rsquo;m mostly still listening to <strong>Rainbow Kitten Surprise</strong>.</li>
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