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+#+title: Journal Week 27 2025
+* Journal Week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)
+** Thursday, July 3rd
+*** Dailies
+**** DONE Meditation
+Only about 10 minutes, in the park. It's been a while, so I'll slowly build up to 30 mins of good practice a day again and just try to hang there for a few months. Might pick up a Brightmind subscription again, though I can't afford to pay for one right now.
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+Just shy of 12000 on the pedometer, getting to the park and around the neighborhood.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed The Feud on the GIM. Just questing up a bit still, trying to get Agility XP in as well as working up towards fairy rings.
+*** Journal
+First day back from holiday visiting my family. Today I repaired the bedroom shelf, installed a longer duct on the portable AC so it can be used in the bedroom more easily as well as installed the AC-window-thing. The longer duct works alright, you can tell the little AC is a little underpowered for a duct that long and it's leaking some heat.
+
+#+CAPTION: /Duct, taped./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :max-height 100rem :align center
+[[../../static/images/duct_taped.jpg]]
+
+Things learned today:
+- Duct tape was originally called "duck tape" and the name /duct/ tape is not accounted for until 1965 --- it works wonders for taping ducts nevertheless;
+- Using wood glue on the end grain of little wooden slats is utterly pointless. Using super glue is somewhat better, but screws are still the best;
+- Sodium bicarbonate is very effective at removing pencil marks from walls;
+- An older Huion Kamvas 13 sells for like €80 on the used market here and seems worth buying;
+- Tickets to Japan Expo are way too expensive (€36 each), and non-refundable.
+** Friday, July 4th
+*** Daillies
+**** DONE Meditation
+~20 minutes breath meditation
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+Slightly north of 12k steps.
+**** CANCELLED Runescape
+Just didn't have the time today!
+*** Journal
+Didn't sleep very well so I ended up staying in bed until 11 or so today. Exercise-heavy day; spent close to an hour in the gym and swam for ~30 minutes. For lunch I made stir fried vegetables with a lot of tofu, flavored with laoganma, doubanjiang and ground sichuan pepper --- I like this recipe, especially given that I'm trying to eat more protein. I highly recommend laoganma, it goes well with a lot of things, by the way​~.
+
+#+CAPTION: /Picture of the Day!/
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :align center
+[[../../static/images/cat_teto.jpg]]
+
+We ended up buying the Huion Kamvas for €70, including pen, stand and cables --- what an absolute steal! Two things to note:
+- The included cable works well for me, but if you want to use your own cable, mind that at least on the older versions of the Kamvas 13 the USB-C ports are artifically recessed so normal cables won't fit unmodified to screw you into buying their cables. I've heard this issue is fixed on the new Gen3 version.
+- If you use [[https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver][OpenTabletDriver]] on Linux and run into an error that says something like =ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value range is [0, 15]=, you need to =rmmod wacom hid_uclogic=. The dev would rather be a dick to people reporting this for the nth time than fix their uncaught exceptions, lol.
+
+#+CAPTION: /This also gives me a (small) secondary monitor for the first time in half a year, which is something I've really missed./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/osrs_huion.jpg]]
+
+I finally got around to hanging up the canvas print of my picture my mom got me!
+
+#+CAPTION: /Here you can also see the shelf I talked about yesterday --- the little triangles at the bottom are not load-bearing and don't attach to the wall (there's metal angle brackets screwed into the concrete wall for that) but do serve to stabilize it./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/canvas_framed_bedroom.jpg]]
+
+
+Also, in the process of setting up the tablet I opened up Krita and rediscovered this artwork I did last year:
+
+#+CAPTION: /Lone Rider/, 2024.
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/lone_rider.png]]
+
+Accordingly, I've added an [[../art/index.org][art section]] to the website. Also, I've added a [[../links/index.org][links section]] for dumping interesting links as I come across them, do check it out~.
+** Saturday, July 5th
+*** Dailies
+**** DONE Meditation
+~25 minutes walking meditation.
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+13.7k
+**** DONE Runescape
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/rs_quest_doti.png]]
+
+This reward feels kind of overpowered, though I guess it still doesn't come close to Waterfall Quest or Knight's Sword levels of silly. The quest itself is... fine? The writing is funny and on-brand, but... The obvious comparison to this quest is obviously Murder Mystery and I think Murder Mystery is a stronger quest; Sinclair Mansion actually feels integrated in the world around it, for instance. Death on the Isle doesn't feel like it does much worldbuilding. Feels very handholdy, just putting you in an instance and teleporting you everywhere, too. But I do appreciate that we're getting a lot more quests nowadays.
+*** Journal
+#+CAPTION: /Two gentlemen "giving aura", as the kids say/.
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :align center
+[[../../static/images/japan_expo_aura.jpg]]
+
+Japan Expo today! I'm glad we got to go in the end despite complaining about the price earlier. We bought a bunch of stuff:
+
+#+CAPTION: /Loot./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/japan_expo_loot_2025.jpg]]
+
+#+CAPTION: /Glad to add some more color to my laptop stickers./ Sticker credit: [[https://www.progress.sh/][Progress]] (logo), [[https://linktr.ee/suzubrah][Suzu]] (logo), [[https://apt-get.xyz/][apt-get]] (untz), Sauce (possum).
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100%
+[[../../static/images/laptop_stickers_june_2025.jpg]]
+
+Always feels good to support local small artisans. It's interesting to see how the gender ratio skews at JE --- I'd say pretty close to 1:1 for general attendants, but maybe 3:1 biased towards women for vendors, at least in the indie artist area. Overall I think that's a good thing. It's also always nice to see the variety of things and the longevity of older franchises, especially compared to something like Comiket which nowadays is extremely gacha and vtuber dominated. You don't see Blue Archive basically /at all/ at JE for instance, which I think is a blessing. Sadly didn't manage to find any Ave Mujica stuff whatsoever --- the new bandori stuff is a very good case study in "things that are big in Japan that don't get picked up in the west", as well, unfortunately. Lots of good cosplays this year; unsurprisingly there were a ton of Maomao cosplays. Below a selection of my favourite cosplays:
+
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+*** TODO Credit sauce properly
+*** TODO Align cosplays
+** Sunday, July 6th
+*** Dailies
+**** DONE Meditation
+12 min breath.
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+The weather was horrid today, so only barely.
+**** DONE Runescape
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :align center
+#+CAPTION: /Stats as of today/.
+[[../../static/images/osrs_stats_w27.png]]
+
+Next up is /The Dig Site/, then /Elemental Workshop I/ & /II/.
+*** Journal
+**** Market
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/market_pierogi.jpg]]
+
+Market day today~
+These pierogi are alright, but I miss the ones in [[../trips/wroclaw.org][Wrocław]]. The praise for Polish food was unanimous among our group of five; highly underrated, highly recommended.
+
+**** Mahoako
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/baiser_sorry.jpg]]
+
+I've been reading [[https://mangadex.org/title/feff4eaf-01df-4a05-83f4-68bb5cdf4fad/mahou-shoujo-ni-akogarete][mahoako]]. I'm caught up with the anime now, which is about halfway through (what's been released of) the manga[fn::It appears to be on hiatus since the anime started airing]. The art in the manga is very good, I'm enjoying it. Seems like the anime is a very faithful adaptation. Excited for season 2!
+
+**** Hover notes[fn::Due to a funny bug I just discovered I can't name this section "footnotes" lest it be hidden, ww]
+Today I added support for footnotes[fn::Or, well, hover notes, rather]! The hover functionality requires [[../../static/footnote.js][a bit of JS]], but the footnotes themselves should work just fine without JS.

org/journal/w28-2025.org

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+#+title: Akk0's journal, week 28, 2025
+* Journal Week 28, 2025 (July 7 to 13) (suspended early)
+** Monday, July 7
+*** Dailies
+:PROPERTIES:
+:HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS: orgjq-contract-default
+:END:
+**** DONE Exercise
+- Stationary bike 40 min/16km
+- Cable Fly machine 3x6x40kg
+- Prone leg curl machine 3x6x30kg
+- Ab crunch machine 3x8x45kg
+- Arm extension machine 3x6x40kg
+- Swim 25 min
+- Walk 8000 steps/4km
+
+  Whew, that was an intense day.
+**** DONE Meditation
+Bit of walking meditation on the way to the pool, maybe ~15 mins.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed /Dig Site/ and both /Elemental Workshop/​s last night. Next up is Woodcutting for Lost City. I was gonna be smart and have my GIM buddy help me skip the WC requirement on /Fremennik Isles/ for the 10k XP but he's busy, so I guess soon will be my first bit of actual training in quite a while.
+**** DONE French
+Gonna add this to the rotation and mark it "done" for today though I mostly thought about it on a meta level. Tomorrow I'll try and write up a bit of it and set up a bit of a study plan.
+*** Journal
+Mostly been preoccupied with exercise today, so not much to report.
+** Tuesday, July 8th
+*** Dailies
+:PROPERTIES:
+:HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS: orgjq-contract-default
+:END:
+**** DONE Exercise
+- Stationary bike 18km
+- The uhh abdominal back and forth thing (my baka-ass didn't note what it's called), 4x10x35kg
+- Chess press machine (6+5)x35kg -- my right shoulder is acting fucky again, so I had to end this one early
+- Leg extension machine (2x8+10)x40kg -- can probably up the weight on this next time
+- Vertical traction (lat thing) 3x8x45kg
+**** DONE Meditation
+Mainly daily life practice/morality stuff, but good stuff at that so I'll count it -- plus the exercise bike has been rather meditative.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed /Lost City/. Forestry is good new content, I love it! My bf is making fun of what qualifies as "content" to runescape players, ww.
+**** CANCELLED French
+FOrgor
+*** Journal
+**** Exercise
+Another heavy exercise day! I feel good, the mind is sharp, but the body definitely needs a lot of recovery on days like this and energy comes in starts and stops. Next two days are rest days, at least! Honestly mixed feelings on rest days, they're necessary but I've actually been really enjoying pushing the body ww. I'm surprised how quickly the body is adapting to the exercise load, but that's being a man in his 20s for ya.
+**** Career
+It's not much of a surprise, but I got word that I got rejected for all the MSc programmes I applied to. It's a shame --- there's only a handful of English-taught compsci Master's programmes around here, and unlike in my home country they have very limited availability and are highly selective (in my home country getting into an MSc is essentially a rubber stamp if you have a BSc, so academic record is pretty mediocre).
+
+I guess it can't be helped, but it still sucks, both because I don't feel like the criterium used accurately represents me (I think my CV, motivation letter, academic references, grade of my BSc thesis are all really strong) and because I feel like I have zero options.
+
+It seems there's an appeal procedure that guarantees you'll be offered some masters or another within your field, but it's only accessible to people with a BSc from a French institution?? The explanation I was given is that it runs through the local board of education where you got your BSc, which is civics trivia and not a /reason/. Honestly this really ticks me off --- as a European citizen I have a right to live, work and get an education in any European country, and I hold an accredited European BSc, yet there are clearly rights that are arbitrarily extended only to locals. Especially hypocritical coming from the notoriously europhillic French! I can't really corroborate this, but I suspect there's an interesting lawsuit in this for a motivated person with a good lawyer.
+
+Regardless it's not a huge issue for me --- my career plans don't have an MSc as a load-bearing element. Going for further education would've been very situationally convenient in this particular time window, but losing the option doesn't particularly set me back. Getting some extra student loans for living expenses was a part of the plan though, so the primary objective for the time being is earning a couple hundred bucks a month as supplementary income. I'll try to get back into software contracting for the time being.
+
+I've started more seriously considering a career for the good cause, working for some manner of charity or non-profit --- somewhere I could put my oratory skills to greater use would be good. I notice over time I've started considering /careers/ outside of software a lot more, even if my passion for the computing cause has not diminished.
+
+** Wednesday, July 9th
+*** Dailies
+:PROPERTIES:
+:HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS: orgjq-contract-default
+:END:
+**** DONE Exercise
+Not sure how many steps but I walked to the park and back (my phone was dead).
+**** DONE Meditation
+Breath meditation in the park, and walking meditation on the way back.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed /Restless Ghost/ and /Lost City/.
+**** CANCELLED French
+Just kinda slipped through in all the commotion.
+*** Journal
+**** Ultraman
+Meet *Ultraman*, the latest member of the family:
+
+#+CAPTION: /Named in honor of the lady who in Tokyo told us in quiet confidence that Ultraman is her son. Don't worry, I cleaned him up again after this!/
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/ultraman.jpg]]
+
+I found him by the sidewalk as I was walking home from the park. He has a wound on the left side of his head and a mean gash on his right side, but he's been conscious and responsive all day and hasn't bled. He can move all his limbs but he can't stand. My friend, who keeps several pigeons he's rescued, thinks he's about 2 weeks old; at his advice I've been feeding Ultraman baby food, which thankfully he does eat, and treated his wound with spray-on bandage.
+
+I really hope he recovers well.
+
+**** Master's
+I've sent an [[../other/ip_paris_appeal.org][appeal email]] regarding my rejection from the Master's programmes I applied to at IP Paris. I've reproduced the email on this blog because I think the information contained within is interesting and because I think it's a good letter.
+** Thursday, July 10th
+#+BEGIN_poetry
+**Q**: How is Ultraman doing?
+
+**A**: /He isn't; he's done./
+
+In Memoriam.
+#+END_poetry

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+#+title: Journal Week 29, 2025 (July 14 to 20)
+* Journal Week 28, 2025 (July 14 to 20)
+** Thursday - Thursday, July 10th - 17th
+Just kinda lumping these together as I left a bit of a hiatus in the journaling and let things slip a little bit, mostly a consequence of working too hard the week prior.
+*** Thursday, July 10th
+As alluded to in last week's journal, Ultraman passed away around midnight. He was recovering strength fast throughout the day, but started going backwards fast starting from around 6PM, ultimately passing away some six hours later. I will write up [[../other/ultraman.org][his full story]].
+
+Other than that, Thursday was a normal day.
+*** Friday - Sunday
+I took friday off and then spent the weekend doing normal weekend things. I needed some recovery; been going at it too hard with exercise.
+*** Monday
+Bastille day! We threw a bit of a party at home and had fun. The Eiffel Tower fireworks/drone show was very beautiful this year. I was also very impressed by the Indonesian division at the military parade.
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
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+  <figcaption class="caption center">Bastille day fireworks.</figcaption>
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+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
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+
+*** Tue - Wed
+Spent most of Tuesday just resting since I went a bit too hard on Monday and stayed up too late. Wednesday I was feeling a lot of physical malaise but I managed to drag myself to the pool and felt better after that. I definitely notice a couple days of unhealthy living and lack of exercise.
+
+*** Thu
+Put everything back into order, cleaned the house, did a lot of exercise. Also worked on the blog a lot. Goal is to officially launch the blog on the 27th, now.
+
+** Friday, July 18th
+Back to full power today. Gonna leave the daily logs off until next week.
+
+Lot of exercise --- gonna stay with machines for another week and then move to free weights I think, which is pretty intimidating.
+
+** Saturday, July 19th
+Exhausted from yesterday's exercise hehe. Dusted off the EMPTYHEAD today, going through the code and explaining it to my co-dev-to-be. Looking forward to picking this back up --- more to follow soon. Restful Saturday otherwise.
+*** TODO Link EMPTYHEAD
+** Sunday, July 20th
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+#+CAPTION:/Happy End Sky Day!/
+[[../../static/images/end_sky_day_2025.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+Went to see some gardens/greenhouses today, otherwise a restful Sunday as well.
+
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org/journal/w30-2025.org

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+#+title: Journal Week 30, 2025
+* Journal Week 30, 2025 (July 21 to 27)
+** Monday, July 21st
+Restless legs syndrome caused me to not sleep all night, so it was a bit of a struggle day for a while. I did drag myself to the gym and used the stationary bike for a full hour --- quite impressed with myself!
+
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100%
+[[../../static/images/stationary_bike_1hr.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+** Tuesday, July 22nd
+I actually slept well today, thank god.
+
+I wrote a [[../events/wroclaw.org][post about my travels to Wrocław]].
+
+** Wednesday, July 23rd.
+Started writing a [[../events/premier_impact.org][retrospective about Premier Impact.]]

org/journal/w31-2025.org

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+#+title: Journal Week 31, 2025
+* Journal Week 31, 2025 (July 28 to August 3)
+** Wednesday, July 30th
+*** Daily Planning
+**** DONE Call grandparents
+**** DONE Look for work
+**** TODO 2 pages Le Petit Prince
+**** DONE Clean house
+**** DONE Finish writing [[../events/premier_impact.org][Premier Impact retrospective]]
+**** TODO Start graphic redesign website
+**** DONE Clean browser tabs
+**** DONE Set up hobby desk
+**** DONE Motorcycle ride
+*** Journal
+Busy day today. Haven't kept up with journaling for a few days -- must be the poor sleep. I finished the [[../events/premier_impact.org][Premier Impact retrospective]] today. Tried looking for work but my LinkedIn account, which I made yesterday, got blocked due to suspicious behaviour; still did a bunch of planning. I got a 3D printer (Creality Ender 3 V3 SE) yesterday --- amazing product, very fun, will write more soon. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Shunsaku Tamiya.
+** Thursday, July 31st
+*** Daily Planning
+**** DONE 3 pages Le Petit Prince
+**** TODO Graphic redesign of website
+**** TODO Continue Honeycomb Storage Wall
+**** TODO Write a blog post
+**** TODO Look for workies