Week Notes forMarch 1 - 7 (#90)

March 8, 2026

It was a gloomy week with lots of rain. I could've used some sun.

A Lot of Laziness

I don't know what it was this week, but I just felt lazy. After work, I really just wanted to plop myself down and do a whole lot of nothing. I managed to shake off the laziness Friday and Saturday with a 4 and 7 mile run respectively, so that was good, but it just felt like a weird week for me.

Distance Running

One thing I was hoping to do this year was get back into some distance running. The weather cleared up enough on Saturday to give it a go. I was hoping for 6 miles but was feeling good and ended up finishing at 7.04 miles. I'll chalk it up as a success. Let's see if I can continue to build on it.

Solved the Work Frustrations

We finally found the issue with the project I was struggling with last week. Oddly enough it was a new seemingly unrelated bug that triggered the key hint as to what was causing the problem that allowed us to reproduce and eventually fix it.

Bandcamp Friday

Another Bandcamp Friday got me to open up my wallet some. Walked away with 9 new albums.

Refreshing My iPod

I have an 160GB iPod Classic that's been sitting around. I've been struggling restoring it on either my MacBook Pro (it's an Apple device trying to restore an Apple device...seriously?). Finally I decided to try booting my desktop into Windows 11 and try to do it on Windows. Oddly enough, it was pretty easy on Windows. Once restored, I flashed Rockbox on it to give it FLAC support and loaded my music collection onto it. It's working nicely.

My iPod sitting on my desk

The downside of the FLAC support is that the music files are larger which might cause my iPod to run out of space. I wonder how hard it would be to install a bigger storage medium on it.

Recipes

Panda Express Chow Mein

I found this recipe and it turned out well. I did add steak to it. I just got a strip steak, sliced it thin, coated it in corn starch, and started out by frying it before adding the veggies.