Weekly Notes: September 15–21, 2025

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  • ♿️ Made it through opening week at work! (This is the week before classes start, filled with staff and faculty info and training.) Day two got a little crazy for me running around making sure that captions were up and running properly, but everything worked out in the end. Tomorrow, students are back and classes start!

  • 💻 A particularly exciting part of the week was getting issued my new work laptop. My old one was a Dell something-or-other, my new one is an Apple MacBook Pro with M4 Pro, 48 GB RAM, and 1 TB drive. A very nice upgrade, prompted because I need to be able to work cross-platform for accessibility testing and document remediation, and this allows me to run Windows in a virtual environment inside the macOS. Haven’t gotten very far setting it up yet, but it’ll be very nice when it’s all set up.

📸 Photos

Spooky season decorations outside our house, incouding a skeleton, jack-o-lanterns, and several Halloween themed gnomes.
It’s spooky season! Our seasonal gnome garden gets some extra friends for the next month or so…plus, we got some fun new additions this year.
An outdoor decorative figure of three very creepy mushrooms with wide eyes, droopy noses, and wide evil sharp-toothed smiles, with tombstones and bones at their bases.
This great bunch of evil mushrooms has been creeping out my wife for the past few weeks since we found it and tossed it on a shelf inside until it was time to set it out front.
An outdoor figurine of a snail with a green head, blue foot, and purple shell, all stitched up and with metal plugs like Frankenstein's monster.
We definitely couldn’t resist this frankensnail (Frankensnail’s monster?) when we saw it.
Me holding a paper model of a Seattle Link light rail train car, while wearing a black cap, rainbow shirt, and black face mask.
We’re less than three months away from the new Link light rail station across the street opening up, so we got paper craft train cars to assemble during our first day of all-staff events.

🎧 Listening

  • Nine Inch Nails’ Tron: Ares soundtrack just landed. I’ve only given it a quick run-through so far, but my first impressions are that it works really well as a follow up to Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack, and has some really strong new NIN tracks, but I’m not yet entirely sure what I think of it as a NIN album.

🔗 Linking

There’s a bit of a theme to this week’s links that will be quite obvious….

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