Weekly Post 14

In order to get proper back into my rhythm, where I pre-write these post during the week, I decided to do another two week recap in one blog post. Partly also because the last week was rather uneventful again.

Recap

Week 50

I had to do a short presentation about our electronics projects I posted about two posts ago, together with my partner. The status of it was not radically different then when I posted back then, it is in a bit of an annoying trial and error phase right now. But the presentation was well received. It and the summary document we had to hand in two days later did set me back with my thesis though, which I finished as a first draft with a last push on Monday. We had a Christmas event with our volleyball group on Thursday, and in the weekend my girlfriend was invited to an birthday party and I got brought along. The Sunday after that I played some beach volleyball with classmates, and we went to a movie poster auction at a cinema for charity, and we went to a nice little Christmas market. It had a small fireplace in the middle and like 7 shops around it right in front of the apostel church.

Week 51

I dragged out implementing the feedback round on my bachelor thesis over the week, I got it done on Thursday though. I had a recording for an “introduction to programming with C” project I worked with in university for the last year, that was fun. Friday I actually printed out and handed in my thesis, did some cleaning up and went to my home town for a small thank event in my youth work. I will spend some quality time with my parents on Saturday, we will do a vegan roast beef and start with puzzles. And Sunday we will go to my grandparents and put up the Christmas tree, in the evening we will do the second board meeting of the year.

Culinary highlight

We made some very cool arepas (recipe), 3-ingredient pan-fried cornmeal cakes with some filling. We liked the baked ones from our oven way more then the pan fried ones. We also included some self made garlic sauce, probably not very Mexican.

Song of the week

I have not a lot of bands/artists where I listen to a lot of their songs. One of them is AJR. I could link to a lot of their songs here, but I will stick to my theme thus far and constrict myself to just one. So I will use the one I discovered them with: 3 O'Clock Things. I listened to it and enjoyed it until the very last line, which caught me so off guard I listened to the whole song again. And then to more of their songs. Do check them out, maybe I will also share more from them later.

I had a very Christmas themed music page recently. See if you can spot the not Christmas ones.

Currently watching/reading/listening

I did some light reading in my procrastinating phase and reread a bit of Artemis Fowl. Big fan of the book series, I don’t think there is a second one where the protagonist of a child book is a rather evil genius child. Such a neat setup. But I very much look forward to dive back into Brandon Sanderson now \o/.

This week I’d like to shout out ShowCase, former MovieDB. This android app is a local take on letterboxd, which my girlfriend uses religiously, and its rather well made. I am not good in actually using these tracking apps, but we will see if I end up getting something out of this one.

Games

I enjoy replaying Splid Fiction with my girlfriend. I am missing three achievements still, one rather annoying one, so I am gunning for those and having fun being better at something for a change. Not like Rocket League for example where most of my friends can fly circles around me.

As always, make the best out of your day!