Last week, I proposed the idea of doing a retrospective on the semester. Well, this is the last week of the summer semester! So, I suppose that I ought to write a retrospective right now. It turns out that a semester is a big chunk of time, so I split it off in to its own post. The write-up is here: Semester Notes 1: Summer 2025.
In the last week notes, I reflected a bit on the various categories that I group stuff under for these notes. Looking at my now page, I see that I use the following categories: Teaching, Learning, Parenting, Playing. These are a pretty great. Perhaps I should switch my week notes to these? I’m fine with the identification: Learning = Reading + Writing.
I continue to drown in new and amazing books. This week, I made great progress on tracking down the books on La Baza Legolisto . A bunch of interlibrary loan books came in from University of Victoria.
I am told that this last one is especially hard to track down. The rare-ness of these books is shocking. They came out in runs of ~1000 or so. It looks like the first three are short story collections. I am excited to read some short works.
In other rare book hunting news, I found the “holy grail” of string figure literature collecting on Abebooks. After a couple days of humming-and-hawing, I decided to buy it. The rare-ness and amazing-ness of the find was too much to pass up1. I had to buy it while paying the bills to ease the sticker shock. More details to follow, when it arrives sometime in October.
This week was all about course preparation. I got a couple morning writing sessions in but most of my writing time has been sucked up by course administration. (“Homework must be submitted in tutorial, etc.”) While designing my schedule, I blocked off a chunk of time (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 13-14:00) for writing and research. Right now, I’m brimming with ideas of what to possibly write.
I’ve been stretching consistently, usually in the mornings. This week, I did my first walk home from campus. It was great to go for a hike. It took me ~40 minutes. I met an man on the trail, which is quite rare, who said that he’d be hiking it daily for thirteen years.
I got curious about the possibility of using the Kobo for writing with a Bluetooth keyboard.
The native software on the Kobo isn’t really setup for writing.
However, I found this Reddit thread:
Exporting Kobo Annotations
I was pleasantly suprised to see that it worked!
One can export annotations from the Kobo as text files.
They pop up in /media/$USER/KOBOeReader/Exported Annotations.
This seems like it could be useful.
I put up a small string figure display outside my office.
Published: Aug 28, 2025 @ 11:00.
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