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Journal Week 27 2025
- Journal Week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)
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.
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.
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 OpenTabletDriver on Linux and run into an error that says something like
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value range is [0, 15], you need tormmod wacom hid_uclogic. The dev would rather be a dick to people reporting this for the nth time than fix their uncaught exceptions, lol.
I finally got around to hanging up the canvas print of my picture my mom got me!
Also, in the process of setting up the tablet I opened up Krita and rediscovered this artwork I did last year:
Accordingly, I've added an art section to the website. Also, I've added a 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
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
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:
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:
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
Next up is The Dig Site, then Elemental Workshop I & II.
Journal
Market
Market day today~ These pierogi are alright, but I miss the ones in Wrocław. The praise for Polish food was unanimous among our group of five; highly underrated, highly recommended.
Mahoako
Hover notes3
Today I added support for footnotes4! The hover functionality requires a bit of JS, but the footnotes themselves should work just fine without JS.