Cooking & Eating:
- Made Chinese chive dumplings cuz I got them for $1/kg at the farmers market.
- Rich with a dozen mangos I got for $10!
- d’s dinner made me realize I was craving German food and how simple it is to make. He boiled potatoes, Chinese radish, and sausages. Made a cream sauce with sautéed onions, bell pepper, and mushrooms. Gut!
- Baked chocolate madeleines in financier molds.
- Haven’t had Laksa in a while at this place (which we had once, years ago). When asked why d got Hainanese Chicken, he made a good point, “Don’t you find Laksa looking more flavorful than it actually does? It’s a bit disappointing.”
- Found out I picked a beer, Eggenberg Urbock 23°, from p’s hometown, Graz!
Happening: (WIP)
- Built a paper robin with paper glue, and floss picks.
- For Q2 team-building, we grabbed burgers and did an escape room with my boss-boss and PM sisters. The setup was a 20th-century Western saloon where we had to beat a group of (imaginary) gangsters to a hidden pot of gold. To be a little overly self-confident, the puzzles were pretty formulaic: clues hidden in poster fonts, number-shaped patterns, and magnets used to unlock boxes. In fact, we gave the creators way too much credit and should’ve just squinted our way through the thing like it was a giant optical illusion. The signs would’ve been clearer.
- Had drinks and Mediterranean food with the company gang (the og 4+1) just like the old days, except we no longer do over 3 drinks or bar hopping, at least not on a Tuesday. Although there wasn’t much to catch up on, I received news I needed confirmation on.
- d chuckles at all my work relations. This Thursday, I sat down with Mr. X for a sip of w and b¹, chatting up about unromantic questions and the US’s greatest ally.
Editing:
- Vibe coded hover + shaded effect for hyperlinks
- Created layout = internet-clipping
- Drafted homepage intro, about me, fun facts
- Added underline for hyperlinks
- Removed the underline for links on homepage
- Add margin below homepage header
- Couldn’t decide with bullet points on homepage
- Created tag: internet-clippings, random
- Found a site for generating superscripts
- Established a grassy floral footnote-breaker
Consuming:
- Double Happiness (2025)
- you crave male approval even from your ex? ew, block him- emotionally online podcast
- I Knew It, I Knew You on repeat–playlist
- Love island S8E14-18
- Clarkson’s Farm S5
Replacing:
- I trained four task-specific agents/chatrooms at work! Another wake-up call that 40% of my work is completely replaceable after just 6hrs of bot training+ raised tones
- Instructed g exactly which column to paste from one to the other. Imagine describing how xlookup works, except now the lookup_value and lookup_array can be fluid and (messy) text-based
- g is like the engineer who’d go through the spec with no further questions and produce an outcome that misses a critical mark. I’d respond with a cold, “No, that’s not it,” and g will gladly redo, still no questions asked, unless I prompt so
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