*Here's what I've been up to since the [last weekly status](/this-week-2024-10-06)...*
### Highlights
- Much of this week has been focused on recovering from last week. [Furnace Fest was awesome](/the-end-of-an-era-furnace-fest-2024/) but I brought home a festival flu ("acute sinusitis") in addition to the rather-expected festival fatigue. I got some drugs on Friday and started to feel a lot better (and my COVID-free streak continues!).
- I had started playing [The Last of Us Part I](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888930/The_Last_of_Us_Part_I/) back before I really ramped up my job search (and then started playing the far-less-entertaining ATS game). Now that I'm kind of settled in at the new gig I thought I would get back into The Last Of Us... but when I powered on my Steam Deck for the first time in a few months I found that it couldn't connect to the internet. I initially assumed it was related to [how I had set up Tailscale on the Deck](https://github.com/tailscale-dev/deck-tailscale) but after removing Tailscale realized the problem was actually with an old [ControlD](https://controld.com/) profile I wasn't using anymore. So I removed that, reinstalled Tailscale (which now [supports ControlD natively anyway](https://docs.controld.com/docs/tailscale-integration)), and was able to update the system and all my games. And *then* I could get back into helping Joel and Ellie navigate a zombie-infested hellscape. This game is **really** good.
- My wife bought me [a utility kilt](https://www.damnnearkiltem.com/products/greenhorn-utility-kilt-black). I've never worn one before but I kind of dig it (and the breeze is rather nice).
- I ran *shuffled* in a grueling 0.12km marathon [*microthon*](https://merrimackhall.com/rocket-city-microthon/) to support [Merrimack Hall](https://merrimackhall.com/), which offers arts-related classes and activities for special needs children and adults. (Also, I wore my new kilt. I guess I'm a kilt person now.)
- I printed [basically the best thing I've ever printed](https://makerworld.com/en/models/595107). This new printer is really good.
### I tinkered...
- I started playing a bit with [Heimdall](https://heimdall.site/), which provides a sort of self-hosted "application dashboard" which can be set as a browser's home or new tab page to provide quick-and-easy access to your most-used web apps and sites. Heimdall makes it simple to create shortcuts, but for certain ["enhanced" apps](https://apps.heimdall.site/applications/enhanced) it can also pull live statistics from the app's API. I think that's pretty slick:
### I wrote...
- It took me all week, but (as teased above) I finally posted [more about my Furnace Fest experience](/the-end-of-an-era-furnace-fest-2024/).
### I consumed...
- I've been listening to a bit of [Starset](https://musicthread.app/link/2nIChlVFb3OK1t1rruR46K7IYaK) and [Poppy](https://musicthread.app/link/2nOs88GsqtX5kLSJrzLxCj9Z0gq) lately.
- I'm (still) reading [Consider Phlebas](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0c71176b-7de6-4f30-9462-aebeecf944a0) by Iain M. Banks.
- We're watching a lot of drag: [Dragula](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6289132/) Season 6, [Drag Race Global All Stars](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32919055/), [Drag Race España](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13606528/) Season 4, and [Drag Race UK](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9780442/) Season 6.
- We finished binging [Nobody Wants This](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26933824/), and started on [Kevin Can F\*\*k Himself](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9257258/), which takes "a look at the secret life of a sitcom wife."
- And (as mentioned above) I'm *finally* playing [The Last of Us Part I](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888930/The_Last_of_Us_Part_I/) again.
### See also:
- Blake Watson unveiled his [HTML for People](https://htmlforpeople.com/) project which explains how normal people can create a website with HTML. If you've always wanted to make a website but didn't know how to get started, this will help.
- The internet panicked a bit over Gareth Edwards' post, [The Disappearance of an Internet Domain](https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain), which pointed out how political restructuring in the real world might have serious implications for the digital one. However this plays out in reality, it should be a (another) wake-up call that trendy two-letter ccTLDs might not always be the best choice.
- Nicole Tietz-Sokalsaya wrote about how [software licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious)](https://ntietz.com/blog/licensing-joy-gal/) and unveiled the [Gay Agenda License](https://gal.gay/).
