Weekly Post 15

Recap

Christmas is upon us. I hope you had a wonderful time, I sure did. The weekend was as nice as expected, we started with the puzzles and I hopped over to my girlfriend for a bit as well. Monday I made a bigger shopping tour with my father, and we did some gardening after. Some more puzzles, I went over to my girlfriends place for a spell, and my brother arrived. Tuesday I spend most of the day playing Volleyball with former classmates and after that we played a round of Dog Royal, which was great. I slept at my girlfriends place for a change, and on Wednesday we went to my grandparents. We had a nice Christmas day with lots of presents. Thursday some more family members came there and we had a second Christmas celebration. Friday we drove home, I went to the third (and final) Christmas celebration, this time one of my girlfriend though. Saturday we met up with a friend of ours to play the T.I.M.E stories scenario: Under the mask, as well as an Exit puzzle - Das Gold der Piraten. Sadly I got a bit of a cold with fever, a first for my blog post. On Sunday I didn’t do a lot on account of me being sick, but the friends of my brother arrived with whom he will go on a trip on Monday, which made for a very lively evening.

Puzzles

For the last couple years we did a lot of puzzles in the Christmas family time. My father goes all out with the boxes, and so it escalates a bit every time. This is a short impression, I intended to write out like proper feedback, but I am too sick.

Culinary highlight

We have a long running take on a Swedish blueberry cake. We use elder berries which grow in our backyard. It is a lot, like a full blown dinner right there. Also because we have this vanilla sauce which is mostly fat to put on it.

Song of the week

In contrast to last week, HandClap by Fitz and The Tantrums is a song I really enjoy, but I don't know a second song from them. This one is a banger though, the handclaps are beautifully waved into it, and the text is quite layered with references for it being simply about a night full of love.

Currently watching/reading/listening

I can finally talk about White Sands \o/. This is a graphic novel of Brandon Sanderson, where he used an idea he had for a normal text novel which didn’t come to fruition. When the comic publisher approached him, he realized that magic system he came up with works beautifully in comic form, and I do agree. I quite liked it, especially the later ones. I did buy and read it over the last two months though, but I couldn’t tell you about it because I gifted them to my mother for Christmas, so it had to be a surprise. I also read a bit further in Arcanum Unbound, finished the last Artemis Fowl book, and am a fifth through Elantris, the second last Brandon Sanderson book left. Only the Isles of the Emberdark we haven’t touched yet, and we are all caught up (he did already announce a Kickstarter for a small book in the Cosmoverse, and is writing the first of the next trilogy of Mistborn, so. We are hopefully getting new content for a while still :D)

Projects

I did the reverse ordering of my music posts in my music list. I figured out how: Instead of iterating over the map/dictionary of the toml, I did a range starting from the first blog post id with music to the length of the toml. And then I reversed it. Quite simple, much wow, still a bit confused if I understood the programming language correctly because I had to do a variable where I thought I could get away without one… And now I wonder if I should turn it into a table and link to the blog post…

And I am playing around with hover tooltips on the images, the text when larger didn’t display nice on mobile. Not fully happy yet, might need some more tweaking in the future.

As always, make the best out of your day!