w29: sunday review
when i stepped outside to see if there were any raspberries
things i intended to do and did
- downgraded my kagi account from the $25 level to the $5 level, giving myself an average of ten searches a day and no llm access. it is still worthwhile for me to pay for search with no ads & a domain blocklist but it's even better to make an ACTUAL LIST of things i wonder and then look them up in trustworthy places.
- downgraded my spotify account from the default £12 with audiobook hours to the £11. not that i need the £1 but neither do they.
- tried out youtube music, because we have household premium in order not to see ads & it makes sense to switch from spotify, but wow it's not good. but then that made me realise I need to do a whole lot more piracy because if spotify changes its UX I don't want to just have to bear it. I need to be able to wave a lighthearted fare-thee-well & play music off a SD card in the back of my speaker.
- 5pm friday I turned my phone off & put it in the knife drawer. there's precisely one thing i'm waiting for & it's not going to happen outside office hours.
things i intended to do but did not
- garden. yes, all of it.
things i enjoyed
- every time it rained in the day & i went back to lie on the bed with the dogs & listen to rain and Olafur Arnalds & the mmpf?s of dreaming dogs
- Karla's Choice, thank goodness. One does worry.
- when i stepped outside to see if there were any raspberries & the neighbour cat galloped towards me from under the hedge to twiddle herself around my shins
- Ophelia's complete mastery of the 'but have you considered, I too like cheese' polite requesting paw
- Priscilla's new trick of making a toy the other side of the room seem very interesting and exciting so that Ophelia leaves the Doughnut Of Comfort and Priscilla can dart into it
- typing audacity export filenames like kiasmos - ii (full album).mp3 like it's 2002
- i had literally forgotten about embeds, so there's another thing i enjoyed. functional iframes in 2025!
- opening my phone reflexively and remembering that i'd removed all the news.
intent for week 30
- take no damage
- go to an auction on Monday, possibly. not to buy. to watch, & to judge.
- meditate on the fact that a £10 doesn't mean now what it meant to me in 2002 & I should really update my worldview & buy on bandcamp.
- sixth assignment, at least in draft.