2026 W13: Low-stakes, high-drama 🔗
§ This week has been a bit of a blur thanks in no small part to temperatures ping-ponging more than 30 degrees day-to-day taking my sinuses on a wild [...]
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2026 W12: A meteor exploded 🔗
§ Hello. Happy spring, officially. The daffodils are flowering and our honeysuckle vine is suddenly dotted with tiny green leaves. Most importantly, I [...]
2026 W11: Half-hibernation 🔗
§ The start of daylight savings time last Sunday means that the sunlight now stretches past 7:00pm. Bliss. § I finally finished reading Autumn and sta [...]
2026 W10: Sticky smelly chore 🔗
§ I’m officially on ramp watch—assuming the ramps I planted last year survived the winter I should see them sprout as early as this month. § Aside fro [...]
2026 W9: An inopportune moment 🔗
§ Rabbit rabbit. Happy March. § The snow came back on Monday and temperatures dropped again but the early signs of spring I saw last week made it all [...]
2026 W8: Particularly portentous 🔗
§ Happy year of the fire horse. I can’t help but think it feels like a particularly portentous designation. § As the snow cover continues to recede th [...]
2026 W7: A great relief 🔗
§ I had a slow start to the week as I gradually worked to get over my cold. During my downtime I caught up on the last couple of seasons of Stranger T [...]
2026 W6: Thundersnow 🔗
§ Little by little each day the sunset creeps back towards 6:00pm. On Monday temperatures rose into the 20s after being in the low single digits for t [...]
2026 W5: Stressful & strangely magnetic 🔗
§ Rabbit rabbit. Happy February. It has been seven months since the last time the first day of a month fell on a Sunday. Now it will happen two months [...]
2026 W4: Below zero 🔗
§ Last Sunday I moved my quails inside in anticipation of an impending cold spell. I made them a cozy outdoor coop that is protected from the wind and [...]
2026 W3: Something in the air 🔗
§ Hello there § On Tuesday I gave a presentation about exhibit design to a nearby school group. This required creating a slideshow deck which is a tas [...]
2026 W2: Unexplainable bout 🔗
§ Little by little, Christmas decorations have been packed away and I’ve slowly started getting back into the swing of things in the new year. The day [...]
2026 W1: Rough around the edges 🔗
§ Hello there. Welcome to 2026. § I worked on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day for the first time in a while, trying to save up some PTO to use later [...]
52 photos of 2025 🔗
Previously: 52 photos of 2024 and 52 photos of 2023 [...]
2025 W52: An odd sight 🔗
§ And here we are, the last weeknote of 2025. A good year, all things considered. I’m looking forward to 2026 which is shaping up to be even better. § [...]
2025 W51: Buoyed 🔗
§ Hello and happy solstice. Longer days can’t come soon enough. § In the middle of 15°f weather, our entire street lost power early last Sunday evenin [...]
2025 W50: Just a little bizarre 🔗
§ Our company holiday party was on Monday. My team won the gingerbread house building contest and then I watched my coworkers sing karaoke. The weathe [...]
2025 W49: Soundtrack to my dreams 🔗
§ As the sun sets at 4:57pm I commute home from work under the ghostly light of a particularly bright full moon on Thursday. I later read that it was [...]
2025 W48: Lake-effect 🔗
§ A three day work week followed by a four day weekend was exactly what I needed. During my time off I started renovating a spare bedroom Caroline and [...]
2025 W47: Imaginary fruit tree 🔗
§ At work this week I experimented with CNCing foam into small modular ‘topographical’ panels for an exhibit I’m prototyping. Previously, I’ve only re [...]
2025 W46: Spiritually similar 🔗
§ The snow that was threatened for this week did indeed arrive Monday morning and stuck around through Tuesday. I had to dig through the garage for a [...]
2025 W45: A single leaf 🔗
§ That cold I mentioned last week? It never materialized. Thanks zinc/vitamin c/sleep/water/luck! § As the weather cools down, our fig has been partic [...]
2025 W44: A great bratwurst 🔗
§ Tuesday morning I flew into Milwaukee for a brief work trip. I was in the city for less than 24 hours so it wasn’t nearly enough time to form a comp [...]
2025 W43: Inertia 🔗
§ A week of almost nonstop rain forced me inside to finally tidy up, rearrange a bit, and hang up some artwork I’ve been neglecting for way too long. [...]
2025 W42: Pruning and harvesting 🔗
§ I’ve written and published a post like this every week since December 10th, 2022 which makes this my 150th weeknote. While each individual entry mig [...]