This game was made for me. I love that there’s no other characters around (you just get text messages that keep the ‘story’ moving), and that there’s no music. It’s so peaceful. There’s a slider in the settings menu to adjust the tone of the water to make it sound nice to your ears.
I think the vehicle levels are a bit fiddly but they’re still alright. My favourite so far has been the skate park. I did the whole thing in one sitting, with a little mental plan of how I was going to tackle it to make sure the ladder wouldn’t get in my way and that I wouldn’t miss any spots. So satisfying.
Green nozzle best nozzle 😊
The sequel is out on the Switch 2, which I don’t have. Is it weird that Power Wash Simulator 2, and the Factorio expansion that have me considering getting one?
My work-provided laptop uses Windows and it’s pretty locked down (mostly just MS365 stuff but there’s also some free/open-source type apps available too) and I read Getting Things Done the other day, and got really excited and wanted to try using it.
A good while ago I read through everything on Plaintext Productivity and I took a lot of that advice on at the time, but now that I’ve actually read Getting Things Done, I realise that I had the wrong idea when I was trying to copy some of the things.
I’m still trying to spend less time watching YouTube, and the trick mentioned in this earlier post has been really good. I’ve actually gone one step further now, and I’m pleasantly surprised with how well it (usually) works.
I mentioned it a little at the bottom of the previous post, but what I do, instead of subscribing to a channel on YouTube, I subscribe that that channel’s RSS feed in Reeder.
Don’t think I’ve seen this since it came out. Pleasantly surprised that it’s still really funny
Just been watching this YouTube video about using YouTube in a ‘healthy’ way. The main point was to get away from the algorithm by staying away from the front page for the most part, and instead using your Subscriptions page to browse and choose something to watch. And to be happy to subscribe and unsubscribe freely.
I really like the idea, and actually I’m going to start trying it out. I do something a bit different though which I’m going to keep doing because I think it will still work alright - instead of diving straight into something that looks interesting, you save it to your Watch Later playlist (you can do this while you’re idly looking to kill 5 minutes on your phone). Then when you’re ready to actually watch something, you just watch the playlist.
I suppose both ways let you curate your videos before you watch them. Maybe doing both will be too much.
I like doing something similar with RSS feeds though. Like, everything gets chucked into Reeder, and I’ll sift through that every now and then, and send the interesting-looking articles to Instapaper. Then I actually read them there.
The more I think about it, the more I realise this is missing the lovely ‘neat little package’ thing that murder mysteries are supposed to do at the end (and the book does do it, so it’s a shame). I still enjoyed watching it though, and Ibrahim is still my fave
Waiting for it to become officially official, but at the end of the month I’m going to be stepping down from my current role at work into something less people-focused.
I’m going to be sad about the reduced pay, and nervous about working with a new peer group, but I’m also kind of excited to do something that plays more to my strengths, instead of taxing my weaknesses.
Feels strange to think of all the responsibilities that I’ll be dropping in a few weeks
February review:
watching films in my living room is awesome
Hearing aids are awesome
ear infections aren’t 🫠
productivity: it’s good to make a list but don’t expect to actually do it all
The main problem with the bullet journal method is maintenance. Separating the entries into multiple locations and transferring them from one place to another, for me, was too much. What I was looking for is, quoting Steve Losh(2), a “list manager for people that want to finish tasks, not organize them”. In order to achieve this a lot of parts needed to be removed
I love this. What a wild spin on bullet journaling! I’m not sure it would match with my brain (it feels like a lot of things become ‘present’ ‘tasks’ and I don’t know how I feel about that) but man I love it. Turn the whole system on its side and let all of the maintenance fall out. Awesome.
This was an audiobook from the library. I wanted something that could be kind of playing in the background, just giving me some advice while I’m doing chores and driving to work and things. It worked.
An update from this post: here is my completed tracker for January. No alcohol all month! And the stress/anxiety levels weren’t too bad.
The thing is I can’t tell if alcohol had an effect on how I felt because I didn’t drink at all. So I suppose that means I need to drink tons in February, for science :P
Seriously though, I’m going to use the same tracker again this month. It was interesting and ultimately it shows me I didn’t feel so bad last month. Let’s see what happens this month.
Scary to think I’m almost caught up - only one more book out! Like, I know these books should be silly and far-fetched and they are, but they’re also somehow really really good. I hope the seventh one isn’t going to be the last one
