All's well here at The Dispatch. We had our nose to the grindstone this week and the snails felt neglected. They took it out by hiding in different spots around the house so that we had to search for them in order to make sure they weren't lost. And then of course we couldn't find all of them and then a few of them did get lost in the sweaters in the back of our closet. We eventually found them after we sent some of our most trusted snails on a rescue mission. Everyone's getting some rest now, and we're hoping we can spend more time next week all together, maybe playing a board game or something.

Game Boy 👾

• Started playing Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
  • Very cool that there is no explicit instructions on the controls
  • Interesting gameplay and storytelling feels very cinematic and like I need to be fully paying attention
• Destiny 2: Lightfall
  • The newest expansion of Destiny came out and I read some bad reviews, but I played through the starting mission in the season to see what it was like
  • There are some good quality-of-life improvements, but it didn't really grab me back into it
  • Don't think I need to buy the expansion, at least right now

Coding Corner 👨🏻‍💻

• A hard grind at work this week
  • There's a long-term project I'm slowly handing off to another dev
  • I have a tendency to try to account for and prepare for everything and be really thorough with immediate concerns so that I don't get anxiety about losing control of a situation I'm responsible for
  • But I'm also responsible for longer-term concerns now that I need to maintain focus on, so always shifting focus back to the old project is counter-productive
  • The other dev is capable and I have to trust them to be able to be stressed about a situation and handle it like an adult professional

Albums 🎧

• "God Save the Animals" by Alex G
  • comfortable to go back to, used as work music
• "Big Time" by Angel Olsen
  • becoming more embedded each listen
• "Carrie & Lowell" by Sufjan Stevens
  • nostalgic and also associate it with coding
• "House of Sugar" by Alex G
  • some more working music
• "I See a Darkness" by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
  • all time classic; deeply imbued in my style and self-identity at this point