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🏙️ Back in the city. Can’t say I’m too happy. It’s always hard when we return from the island, this time it’s no different. I wouldn’t call it depressing, but it’s definitely not a great feeling.

🥶 It’s COLD! It’s very very very cold! We knew what the situation would be like, but still… it’s COLD!

📺 We’re done with The White Lotus, and what a ride that was! Hopefully there’s more to come, but can’t imagine how they’re pulling it off without you know who. Next on the list is a totally different thing, season 4 of Fauda. Doron is back! Also still watching, very slowly, Treason.

🍿 Watched The Lake House, Rio 2, You People. Not a great week, movie wise.

🎉 Mother-in-law’s birthday party on Sunday. Full house again. Yummy cake, and a lot of time talking about Príncipe. Everyone wanted to know how the little one handled it. She, of course, is always thrilled to hear the stories. Can’t say we hate reliving it as well.

🎩 On the “MrLandlord” front, I’m relaxing a little now. Finding a new tenant, even with the neighbors from hell on the upper floor, wasn’t too hard, and they are moving in as we speak. I met them again at the apartment, and they do love the place. Not knowing if I’d be able to find someone to move in quickly was stressful, glad that seems to be solved. Let’s see for how long.

🎄 As promised, the tree came down. That’s what one has to do after spending a few weeks pretending regular life does not exist. Back to dishwashing, laundry, cooking dinner, kindergarten drop offs and pick ups,… Leaving the tree longer than it should made it VERY dry, and a mess to clean up afterwards. Done, but next year I’ll try to remember the experience, and do it like a normal person: earlier, as in right after Christmas.

🎨 It also means that I’m back at sticker spotting, and I’m sorry to say I haven’t been finding as many new ones as I thought I would. Usually there are dozens of new ones after a couple of weeks, as they tend to get replaced often. Maybe January is a slow month for this activity, less people in the city. Foreigners, I mean. We do have a lot of people leaving stickers all over the place, but the presence of the outsiders makes up a huge percentage of the ones I find.

✏️ Fonts! That’s not something I change often, but since I’ve seen Matt’s post about Atkinson Hyperlegible, I’ve been changing it all over. First I did it for the blog, then Drafts on the iPhone, then also on the laptop and, to top it off, following a tip from Carlo, it’s now being used on my omg.lol profile as well! Also from this same tip I found out bunny.net also has a font directory, one you can use instead of the usual Google Fonts, and it’s even GDPR compliant. Awesome!

📷 Also back at work, on the last day of the week, with another wine-related assignment. I did get a call for a regular one, meaning politics, something I would have loved to shoot. But the time was all wrong, as I had previous arrangements. Sad, in a way, but I’m sure others will come. I do miss the newspaper life from time to time, and this would have been great, after a month away from home, and months away from anything not, at least, wine adjacent. Anyway, as long as money keeps coming in, I guess I shouldn’t really be complaining.