Week Notes 10

Week Notes for June 10-16

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Things I made:

• Forgot to list this last week: Jays From Home^[1]
• #Junited2024 continues
• Nerdy Blog Stuff
• Paywalls, Pain, and Balance
• Stop it, that's my thing!
• New Mastodon Instance

Personal

• I changed Mastodon instances; my new handle is @srgower@ottawa.place. If I did things correctly all my followers & people I follow should transfer over. Only thing that doesn't are posts. I have 2000+ :`(
• My wife's uncle passed away, so we had some last-minute travel. I expect to be a lot less "online" this week.

Softball 🥎

• Monday: Double header. Game 1 (Win): 0-for-2 | Game 2 (Loss): 1-for-2 ⭐
• Tuesday: Win! 3-for-3 with 1 BB
• Wednesday: Win! 3-for-4 with 1 RBI ⭐⭐
• Season stats: GP: 14 | Slug Line^[2]: .644/.667/1.644 | 4 Home Runs
• ⭐ Fun play on Monday - there was a ball hit hard a little to my right and I knew I wasn't going to catch up to it with my glove. I stuck my foot out with the sole (no pun intended) intention of stopping the ball. What happened was I kicked it straight to my rover who picked up the ball and tossed it into the infield. Beautiful play.
• ⭐⭐ I had a great defensive game. I alternated between Left Field and Rover with another player and I made a lot of great catches. I was tracking the ball very well. Overall I've had a great week on defense compared to last week.

Healthy Living

• We finally got back to the gym and personal training. We could have gone on our own without a personal training session, sure, but when we're in softball season it's hard to do it on our own without a schedule forcing us in.
• I got my bike out for a test ride. I went out for about an hour on Saturday, taking my camera with me for some pictures as well. I need to "develop" them so they will be online somewhere at a later date.

Media

• From the Ruminate podcast, episode 186 - A Wallet-Trembling Show. Robb and John dicuss the concept of "Our Web" instead of "Small Web"; it's about 26 minutes in if you're not able to listen via Pocket Casts.
  • I thought their discussion was great especially the parts where they talk about those who frown upon monetization.
• Finished reading Making It So, Patrick Stewart's memoir. I enjoyed it. I appreciated that the bulk of it covered his life before Star Trek because I didn't know very much about his life before that. Plus, a lot of "behind the scenes" stories of Star Trek are very well known already, so there wasn't much there he could have written about that would surprise me. I highly recommend it!

Nerdy Blog Stuff

• See the "Nerdy Blog Stuff" post I linked to above. Basically I changed up my blog formatting and wrote about it.
• Updated the layout of srgower.com; based it on MGX's McLuhan Lite theme. Links will be in colophon.