2026 week 14, a blur of work
monday, 20260330 to sunday, 20260405
ridgewood, ny
fifth weeknotes. being written late (20260410) but as always better late than never
this week was a bit of a blur in my mind. writing this toward the end of my third week at new job. and thinking about the second week feels like a lifetime away. I remember just feeling very anxious and uncertain. Like doing my best but not being sure if its enough or if i'm blundering in ways I'm blind to.
did a bit of experimenting with the hours i was working- working late one day then leaving early the next. it felt good to me and I don't think it had a real impact on anyone else.
there's this bank I'd like to skate by my work. Not sure what the bust factor is. but it looks fun. The big bank is very stoppered but the small bank isn't. it could be sick to grind the like top corner of the bank, entering from the small side, then dropping into the big side between the stoppers.
small side pictured
There was a really nice day out in the 70s. dipped work earlyish like 3 or 4. then went down to the LES and just sat in seward park. wore a cami under my shirt and made myself take it off and just sit in the park. just to convince myself that nobody cares at all. exposure therapy for self expression and gender. it is very hard.
but i did it for a while. and i am proud of myself.
spent the weekend like not wanting to go outside even though it was pretty nice out on saturday.
wiped my years old linux partition on my desktop and reinstalled. i hate having to update an old install. putting a fresh one on is just the best new feeling in the world. like a new car or project. no history. no baggage. no dealing with decisions you made a month or a year ago.
I tried endeavorOS for the first time. big fan so far. I really liked manjaro in the past for the arch wiki + aur. but manjaro bloat is like not my favorite. eOS seemed like a way to not spend too much time learning and still get at that. and its been feeling like that since I installed.
anyway I put xfce4 on it. i was thinking about a tiling window manager but I don't really need the screen utilization on my desktop computer. right now. i want it to feel just like a normal computer. and not need to remember keyboard shortcuts and stuff. and i want sem to be able to use it without friction.
then i dove into a software project. kinda starting my archive tool project over from scratch. setup claude in the terminal and spent a lot of time defining project requirements before getting into it. ended up staying up until 3a working on this project and pretty much got it all built. LLMs are crazy tools.
the concept for the project is to create a tool and media agnostic archive tool. so to be able to point the tool at a directory or file and then teach it how you want the media imported. so for me specifically I maintain a documentation archive for all my photos and videos. but I'd like it to be more all inclusive. so like to house digital art, my music projects, scans of notebooks and drawings, etc.. all stored based on the date of completion / backup.
so the tool will look at what you've pointed it at, decide if its already been taught how to import it, if so import it. if not there's like an import teaching conversation that the user has with the LLM. and beyond that i have designs for data enrichment actions. like if the tool could also look at every photo or video I import and make audio transcriptions or semantic descriptions of the content so that its more easily searchable. or to do OCR on my notebooks so theyre searchable too. had a lot of fun working on the project and I need to have another long session and redesign the way the import and enrichment protocols work. they need more flexibility.
also wish i had a trans friend to skate with. keeping my eyes open while i'm out rolling around. i watch there skateboards videos with longing.
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