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🎙 Dana Carvey on Smartless. What. A. Funny. Episode! Craig Mod on Japan Eats! is also a good episode. I wasn’t even aware of the podcast but, since Craig was a guest, I decided to give it a try.

📺 A few more episodes of Schitt’s Creek, a show I started watching after another episode of Smartless. Predictably, the one with Eugene Levy. I have to agree with him too, his son is awesome in it. He created, wrote, and even directed it!

📱 Looking into Footpath, as it seems like a cool idea. As I’ve said before, MacStories and AppStories offer endless opportunities for spending money. I will probably skip the Elite tier on this one though, as I tend to walk a lot, but know my way around the city by now. Gentler Streak is still keeping tabs on my walks. The two of them work wonderfully together though.

⛓ I’ve been sharing links on mrBatsu, and it’s about time I credit some of the sources that routinely bring those links to me. On top of a few others (newspapers and such), this is where a lot of the things I read come from: Daring Fireball, Kottke.org, NextDraft, SoraNews24, Spoon and Tamago,… On the side, Craig Mod, and Chris Arnade, with their walking journals. I thank them for their work. Twitter used to be my main source for almost everything, and I’m still getting used to not having it around, relying more on RSS and Mastodon. Not the easiest of things. I’m using bird.makeup to follow a few accounts that haven’t moved over, and still getting used to the change. Not perfect, I know, but that’s where I am at the moment…

👩🏻‍🏫 This was also the week when we had a meeting with tinyMovieStar’s teacher at kindergarten, the half-year report time. She’s doing great, as we expected, and the teachers think she changed a bit, for the better, after the trip to the islands. We, of course, proud as hell, can’t get enough of this. And Friday was just starting…

🍺 Next on the list was a play date, with our friends P and D. D went to the same school I went to when we were just starting our lives, and he’s a great guy. Didn’t know him at the time, as I’m a bit older, but it was great meeting him later in life. P is a terrific person as well, and she’s been friends with movieStar since they were toddlers. Their daughter is around a year older than tinyMovieStar, and they have these play dates regularly. Usually there’s another friend, complete with daughter, that has also known movieStar for decades. The girls play, we eat and drink. Not a bad way to spend our time. The hard part is leaving. The little ones are SO tired by then, but just want to keep going. There’s crying when we step outside, it lasts for two minutes. Then it’s a 15-minute walk to our place, singing all the way.

🏖 The beach cabin & the birthday party. A friend of ours had a birthday party at a beach cabin, one you can rent on Airbnb. We had lunch at my parents before crossing the river, and making our way to the beach. It’s a 15-minute drive. We spent the whole afternoon, and it turned out to be a great day.

📷 Micro.blog photo challenge goes on, with some really nice photos being posted by members of the community, and also a few coming from Mastodon. I’m trying to keep up. Days 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, and 10 have been published.

👨🏻‍🎨 The Mona themes page is still getting updated, albeit slower than I’d like. Plenty other things going on, but I have a few more getting ready. Also added a link to my BuyMeACoffee thing, just in case someone LOVES the themes a lot more than I expect them to.

📷 The agency called, I’m working this week, and through the weekend. Good thing they remembered, as I found out on Sunday that one of my most loyal clients (and I use “loyal” very loosely), basically went out of business. I suspected as much, from the long silence, but the day on the beach cabin also served this purpose, as one of the people attending is a cameraman who worked for them as well. So, all things considered, still a bit stuck, but better than last week. Still, I have to work today, on my birthday, and that is something I have mostly managed to avoid all through my adult life. Also did on Thursday, and will tomorrow (Saturday), and on Sunday. You’ll probably hear about it on the next thingsThisWeek.

👨🏻‍💻 I did this thing, a Drafts action to post to weblog.lol. It was a cool day.

🎂 Oh! And my birthday. I’ll post something about it later today. Probably.