Busy work and family visits

Another delayed weeknotes, decided to just accept it this time around, it's okay. From December 16 to 22, 2025.

Well yeah that week was packed with stuff at work, and I really wasn’t in the mood for writing blogposts, so two weeknotes back to back, like the good old days.

And Christmas is upon us! I hope those who celebrate get to have a great time with family and friends. Be kind to each other in these tyring times, all of you!

🏭 A lot of work going on at work, there was some data loss that affected a bunch of the internal systems of the company I work for, and I had to manually fill up a bunch of things, I don’t want to get into it that much, but it was a very manual and repetitive process and I barely got time to sit at my desk for it. Nothing too bad really, when it comes to complexity.
🕹 I umm, caved for one last purchase of the year of Nintendo Switch games, I acquired Tales of Graces F Remastered, a game from a JRPG franchise that I have never tried before, but I saw it had multiplayer support and that seemed kind of interesting to me. I also acquired the Star Wars Heritage Pack physical release, which comes with five games in cart (the one I care about the most is The Force Unleashed) and two digital downloads (the KOTOR duology, which I wish was physical, but whatever).
💾 For a couple years, the hard drive where I stored a bunch of totally legal Linux distributions that I used for my Raspberry Pi 4 a couple years ago, was lost. However, I finally found it laying in some random corner of my house… and it’s dead, RIP.
🛍️ All my siblings are finally reunited at home, and the first thing we did (besides lunch) was go to the movies and watch Avatar: Fire and Ash, and after that, some Christmas shopping for new shoes! I got one of my siblings a pair, I got my mom another, and I got two pairs for myself. My father paid for his (I’ll gift him something else) and my other sibling already got a Kobo, so all good.

Watching

Only a very big and long movie this time around, not a lot else, interesting how the year has gone when it comes to my movie consumption. No anime or shows to speak of.

Avatar: Fire and Ash - Well, I watched this movie with everyone in the family, we got one of the fancy rooms with bigger seats for everyone, and honestly, it was a pretty cool experience overall! I really enjoyed the new antagonist as well, it was a very interesting dynamic overall. I think it could have been a little hshorter, there were some parts that felt like endings and then it kept going! In any case, it feels like a sequel to The Way of Water rather than a whole new story, which I guess was the point. There wasn’t enough fire or ash though, bummer.

Gaming

Quite a bit of games this time, I even brought my Switch to my commute instead of using one of my smaller handhelds, it was pretty fun!

Hollow Knight: Silksong - Played quite a bit more of this. Fought another optional boss, and I also unlocked the blue phial, that lets me get extra life essence!
Vampire Survivors - Completed a full run in a local 4-player session, it was amazing! Getting the hang of it but I still can’t last 10 minutes by myself.
Full Metal Furies - Just some progress in new stages! It has been quite fun.
Nintendo Switch Sports - Another fun session, this time it was some online multiplayer, me and a sibling vs the world. We even won once at Bowling.

Reading

Welp, I read like half a chapter of Exit Strategy too, but I am not even giving that a listicle.

My Wife is from a Thousand Years Ago - Up to chapter 281. It continues to be pretty wholesome and adorable, and there have been a few references to how time has passed for different characters and it’s kind of relatable as well.

Around the web

Some blogs to keep y’all reading! Or videos, making a return.

Blogposts

What is there left to say? - AI is NOT it.
My life was better 10 years ago - I wonder how much is it that we were just kids and how much is it that the world has truly gotten worse, there’s a ratio somewhere, right?
Typing is physical and wonderful - Pens are very cool, but typing ain’t bad at all, both are worth learning well.
To sigh a deep sigh of releasing - Just Annie writing something wonderful again.