Week 83 — Window seat

• Regular length week this week, but 2 long weekends coming up ;)
• A pretty eventful week at work this week! There's a carpark that adjoins to the office building via a walkway on the level bellow ours. On Wednesday a handful of youths decided the best thing to do was climb on to the roof of the carpark and hang out there. A few people noticed, and security was called, and this is where things always get interesting. No one is super excited when security exacts justice, but it is always satisfying to see people doing the wrong thing get apprehended. Kinda like seeing someone get pulled over — no one wants to see someone's shitty driving go un-punished, but no one wants to see the police win either.
• Speaking of, a vacancy came up on a window seat in the co-working space and so guess who has two-thumbs and a view? This guy! The view is of the neighbouring carpark and the pub on the ground floor, so nothing fancy, but I should probably start keeping tabs on how many people are solo-drinking-and-working on a Friday afternoon, because the numbers will shock you!
• Anyone following along from last week will be pleased to know that Dishy lives on, still :)
• My iPhone, watch and MacBook batteries have been toast this week — I have no idea why. Nothing is coming up in the battery page with high usage. Though, I did start using the photos wallpaper on my watch to get some pics of the family through the day, so I wonder if there is a runaway process somewhere trying to pick photos for the pool? But that wouldn't make sense as to why it is all the devices.
• I have been reading The City and Its Uncertain Walls after finishing Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World the other week. I think I prefer this telling of the story. While I did enjoy the sci-fi / cyberpunk vibe of the first version, it didn't really add all that much (other than ground the story in some reality that makes it believable that the protagonist's abilities are legit). I'm only 10 or so chapters in, and the Town part of the story is set in is already feeling more likeable.
• It was a big library book week this week, with 2 reservations coming in. The City and its Uncertain Walls was one, and Caliban's War (no. 2 in The Expanse series) dropped. So please, send me all your free time.
• I also added a couple of features to https://grouse.site that make uploading multiple images and creating posts from uploaded images easier. I asked Zed's AI thing to help, because I didn't have time to read the Alpine docs and surprisingly it got it working in 1 go! The code was terrible, so I read the docs for the thing it suggested and made it nicer, but still, impressive to get it going with very little effort!