Week 22

Jun 1, 2025 Chris Zietlow Profile Image

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I'm starting to emerge from a slump of uncertainty and stress back into a normal cadence - which includes catching back up on my weekly online journaling. 2025 has been marked by extreme change tinged by hardships. Losing 2 grandparents in the past 6 months, both pillars in my life and identity has been challenging. Coupled with the life altering change that I'll officially be a Dad at the end of this year has been a large amount of change in a short period of time. I feel like I'm cresting the ridge of the tumultuous times, transitioning to a more forward looking mindset. While I wish both of those grandparents could have shared this time in my life, I'm comforted by the person they've helped me become. With their help, and the help of the rest of my extended family I feel equipped with the fundamental ability to tacklet this next stage of my life

  • Finished cleaning house in preparation for sister-in-laws to visit
  • GTI was leaking oil
    • changed oil off schedule
    • discovered VW opted to use a plastic oil drain plug
      • I'm not amused by the decision
    • Going to respect my time and schedule some time at a VW shop
  • Continued working on TUI side project
  • Researched Posix standard for CLI tools
    • The power of linux is tools that are composable via piping output from one to another
    • Has me rethinking the design of Bookworm app
  • Continuing to tweak and experiment with my schedule in effort to find more heads down time
  • Began rewriting dot files (again)
  • Reading
    • Starting reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
  • Listened
    • Deep Questions with Cal Newport: Ep. 351: Making the Internet Good Again
    • Econ Talk: Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)
    • Deep Questions with Cal Newport: Ep. 354 The Workload Fairytale
    • Econ Talk: Inside the Mysterious World of Credit Cards
    • Masters of Scale: Esther Perel - Build better relationships at work
  • Watched
    • Clakson's Farm
    • The Pitt
      • Watching this jointly with Alaina

Looking forward to the month of June, as of right now I don't have any traveling or hosting scheduled. A month of normal routine will be good for my mental well-being.