Weeknotes: 2025-W14

Published: 7 April, 2025, updated: 7 April, 2025

Summary

A week full of classes - my woodworking project class as well as a number of certification classes for Seattle Makers that finish off my “must-have” list before I start using the maker space.

Made a bit of a mess of some resawing dimensions early in the week, but figured out a plan to get what I needed and move forward.

Took another bunch of photos of blossoms and ducks and geese and even a dog (it was aquatic at the time) on my walks.

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

Enjoying

• Reading:
  • The Witches of Holloway Road by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
    • Nice to step away from the Myrtlewood Mysteries protagonists, and a fresh environment.
  • Formidable Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries #7) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
    • Back to the Myrtlewood Mysteries protagonists, with slightly more interesting storyline than usual, but airy plotting.
  • Unspeakable Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries #8) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
  • Impractical Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries #9) by Iris Beaglehole
• Watching:
  • The Comedy Line-up S1 E3: Taylor Tomlinson
  • 📺🏃This Old House season 45
  • 📺🏃🔄 Agent Carter season 2
  • 📺📅 The Rookie season 7
• Playing:
  • Cracking the Cryptic

Newly discovered

Box making

“The algorithm” delivered me an Ido Agassi box making video, and I did a light exploration of the rabbit hole that is box making (and a little book binding as well).

It never occurred to me exactly how simple and potentially enjoyable this could be, so making a few boxes and maybe even some books are now on my (currently very long) list of potential projects.

Recommended

Goth Kid on Vacation - Jack Black on Saturday Night Live

It’s rare for me to watch much more than Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, but I figured there’s a decent chance Jack Black would deliver in a few of the sketches so I watched those as well. This was probably the best of the lot - that My Chemical Romance interlude…

The Highest-Rated EASY Puzzle Ever!! - Cracking the Cryptic

An uncommonly short variant “Sudoku” puzzle from Simon on Cracking the Cryptic, a well-constructed (and highly rated) puzzle with a fairly straightforward solve by Simon.

Taylor Tomlinson’s Crowd Confessions

An interesting and enjoyable take on “crowd work”, with the crowd providing their responses on a few topics, and Taylor and a partner (sometimes two) riffing off of it and each other.