Got mail, and went cycling! - W20

It is incredible to think about the fact that twenty weeks of the year are already over. I still feel like 2026 is barely getting started, but at the same time I’ve already done quite a bit of cool stuff. This was a pretty neat week and I went out a lot!

• 🗒️ I have a few drafts and ideas in my head that I just can’t get myself to write about. More thoughts on my new bike, an updated Every Day Carry, an updated What’s On My Phone, a tour through my physical game collection, I want to recommend some apps, write about recommendations to get started into Manga, or Monster Hunter, and also about a childhood hero of mine and stuff. I don’t knowww.

• 🚲 Tried cycling on the streets! On Friday and Saturday I went out for a few hours to get a taste of my bicycle and commuting around my city. I did about 13 km on my first ride, and 20 km on the second one. I had a lot of fun as I went through some roads I hadn’t seen before. I didn’t know that there’s a very small bike lane close to the city’s downtown. I saw some other people in bicycles and had some experiences I’ll write about in a future post. I also want to buy a bike lock and other accesories and tools for my commute, if you have some recommendations, let me know by contacting me via email or leaving a comment!

• 🛍️ Went out with my mom to do some shopping due to Mother’s Day! I got her a dress and some new shoes! Of course we ate at a restaurant in the mall as well, and watched a movie which I’ll mention below. I love my Mom, this is is nothing compared to what she has given me.

• 📚 While out with my mom we stopped at a library and I ended up buying a copy of Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert. While scrolling through the Kobo shop, I also stumbled upon Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, which is a Hugo award winning novel. Without any more receipts, I decided to buy it and I plan to read it once I’m done with The Expanse!

• 📧 I got a couple of great emails this week due to some of my posts and also the currently trending post from David about engaging in communication with others!. That was awesome. Always great to know I am read by some cool people. I was also reminded about how cool the Radio Rental podcast is.

• 🌮 On Sunday night we went out to get some tacos, my mom actually tried her new dress there so that was nice. The tacos of course are always great.

Gaming

• 🥐 CrossCode - I finally completed the last big dungeon, closing the chapter 8 of the game. That was some incredible puzzle design and a very fun boss fight as well. The story continues to get stranger and I am really looking forward to what the 9th chapter has to reveal for me. I am now waiting for the rest of my friend group to catch up.

• 👾 UFO 50 - I played a bit more of Bug Hunter and it kind of clicked but I was not good at it, eventually had to “return” it and went for Ninpek instead, an infinite side-scroller similar to Ninja Gaiden, but it’s kinda terrible in my opinion, much more simplistic than the previous two titles… Now, on a certain day a friend of mine visited and “brought” his own multiplayer “carts”! We played (and actually finished) Mooncat, and THAT game will be awesome once I “rent” it for myself…

• 🐉 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - My hunts continued for a bit more! I went for a Yian Garuga this time around, the little purple chicken managed to knock me out twice before I got the final blow. Then I tried to hunt a Lunastra but she has proven to be much more challenging than I remembered.

• 🏠 Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream - Keeping up with my Miis! Oh and my Mii has a baby now, with Lucca (from Chrono Trigger) and her name is Lily, so that’s… interesting.

• 🎲 Slice & Dice - It has been a while, but an old friend has returned. I am playing a chill match of Blursed mode!

Watching

• Max Steel: Dark Rival - I continued going through my childhood memories and saw this movie at last. This is the one DVD that I owned as a kid! I convinced my parents to get a candy box that contained it, and I still have it with me to this day. This movie introduces Max Steel’s greatest rival in extreme sports, now turned into a villain that can extract the energy of any life form and transform in it! It’s still awesome and I wanted all of these toys as a kid.

• The Devil Wears Prada 2 - Had to check this film out since we all love Anne Hathaway. I had zero expectations and I was definitely entertained. There were some interesting story moments but honestly I was just there for the character interactions. Not a very memorable plot or cool sequence, but I had fun! I was also quite nostalgic about it even though I never watched the original film in full, only bits and pieces.

• The Intern - So I decided to watch the original The Devil Wears Prada but ended up finding this instead. Robert DeNiro as a retired old man who wants a routine in life and becomes an intern for Anne Hathaway’s start-up fashion company. Very different but very fun to see the interactions yet again. The story was mixed, funny sometimes and way too serious and emotional in others, but I still enjoyed it.

Reading

• Tiamat’s Wrath - Up to chapter 9. I am finally getting some steam reading this book from The Expanse! which isn’t that much but I hope I get a grip and power through. I am really liking the direction so far though, a lot of things have changed yet again and I’m a little scared.

• Heavenly Delusion - Up to chapter 58. A very interesting arc just concluded, answering some questions that had been around since the beginning of the story! However, more mysteries arise. This keeps being awesome!

• Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie - Up to chapter 110. Still enjoying my return to this romcom. There have been some rather emotional moments lately and I feel bad that I left it so long because they didn’t land with me as well. Still reading though!

Around the Web

Some cool posts about people, some more videos about cycling and house stuff, and a new handheld review!

Blog posts

• An Intro to Life Lately - Jedda is back to writing about events and happenings of her life! But in order to do that, she doesn’t want the pressure of weeknotes, so she made this instead!

• A New Week Notes Blog - On the other hand, Syl, a friend of mine with an awesome blog made this separate one for weeknotes only! I for once cannot be happier to see more slice of life type of posts. weekly, monthly, or at any pace one may need.

• The Death of the Brick & Mortar Toy Store - This is a sad recurrence. Online shopping has taken over a lot of the local businesses and it’s kind of sad. It is not very common here in Mexico, I should write about it soon.

• Goodbye RSS - Jon decided to just stick to visiting websites and blogs every once in a while instead of the constant pressure and the thousands of unread emails. There’s something enticing about that, I must admit.

YouTube

• Making my small apartment feel bigger - I keep being in love with these house improvement style videos! They are fun to have in the background while I clean up and change up my bedroom… Yes definitely only in the background.

• I Cycled $1 Bike From London To Paris - This was a very fun journey! Just an enjoyable ride where friendships and memories were made.

• Finally! Something NEW! // RG Rotate REVIEW - As amazing and unique as this handheld is I am actually not as interested on it as I thought. I hope a slimmer PSP Go style console comes soon.

• The biggest barriers to bike commuting and tips for overcoming them - One of those cool videos with a self-describing title.

This is day 66 of #100DaysToOffload