Weeknotes: 2026-10
It has been. A Week. And I have time now to do this so I’ll share about: starting FFXIV again, the lunar eclipse, and some other reflections.
Update @ 6 Mar 5:32AM: I initially published this last night without checking that the images were properly loaded 🙈 😅 It had something to do with the script I had that ran before I committed any .md or .mdx files and changed normal quotes ('' "") that existed in the file into smart quotes (‘’ “”). The script was looking at Markdown-rendered images (ones I type like this: ) and changed the double quotes in the part that was meant for the image title—which served as my caption—into smart quotes 😭 😅
Now this post should render as I initially intended for it to be… 🤞
If you wanted to know what it looked like before, I flagged it as an issue in my repo just so that in case I didn’t fix it immediately now, I would at least have it in my TODO 😂 Now it’s just forever (?) preserved in my Closed Issues1 😛
Thank you to those who let me know that my published post had the images not rendering properly! (Hallo Mike and James 😁)
Now… onto the rest of what I initially wrote 😂
I started playing FFXIV again after around 3 years of hiatus 😂 It’s been more fun for me to explore now because I have the benefit of playing it on the PS5, AKA I have a way bigger screen now to take in all the content and story and shenanigans that come with playing FF :))
And something I just discovered while playing with the PS5 controller: there are mini haptics when your character/WoL runs!! 😆 It was a joy to discover the first time I booted the game up and I was in a voice channel with friends 😁
The last part of the story I got to follow was after the Endwalker expansion. I kinda need to review though, as I am within post-Endwalker content still and I didn’t really complete all the other post-EW content before I took a break. I think I kinda overwhelmed myself then because I was trying to get more levels with all the non-combat classes in the game, which were the Disciples of the Land and Disciples of the Hand. There were so many things that you had to craft, gather, buy… It became such a chore that it was part of the reason I lost interest for a while 😅
Part of the reason for picking it up again was because I learned another friend recently started the story. So I wanna help them out with any of the dungeons and other group things with our other friends in our Free Company as a way to pay it forward, since they also did that for me when I first started out, back when I was also still streaming :))
I saw the Lunar Eclipse on March 3! I took a few photos with my measly (lol) iPhone camera. Here are some of my takes:
I’m happy I got to see it from our building’s rooftop. I would’ve loved to have gone to one of the free telescope viewings that were organized all over the metro, though. But I didn’t wanna leave the house, so… 😆 This will have to do for this year’s lunar eclipse that’s visible in the Philippines 😁
I had sooooo many things to do the past few days. It’s been exhausting.
You know the feeling that you wanna do so many things? And while there are ways to be more empowered about it, sometimes life events find a way to drain the motivation or the energy out of you. And some days, it’s hard to combat the down days, and you really just have to take a step back and rest.
(Doesn’t really help that news isn’t really the best thing to tune in right now, but I am doing what I can to be up to date with current events, and I am not happy with how things are going in certain situations. War is never okay, people dying is never okay. At the very least, I stand by that stance. But I don’t have it in me to participate in the online discussions with this as I am not as informed and don’t feel like it’s my place to talk about those things anyways.)
I’d like to think at least I still have some fight in me, and that eventually things would settle down a bit to the point that I could at least do something meaningful with the knowledge and experience I have. I also know that the efforts I’ve done so far wherever—at work, with extracurriculars, personal stuff—are being recognized by the people who matter to me, which is nice. I just need to shake off the feeling of wanting a bit more external validation and learn to be happy with my efforts because I did it.
Some days, this is easier. Others, not so much. But I’m managing.
… Okay, a little vulnerability here and there is fine too 😛 I’d rather keep the super personal posts here to a minimum, as a way to exercise some restraint especially as I have a tendency to overshare. I mean, I guess if I do want to do it, I would need to know what the consequences of those are, and be ready to face them.
I haven’t caught up with my manga chapters 😪 I think the format I have now on my website is being stretched to its limit, and I do have some fixes I wanna eventually work on in relation to this, like…
- fixing the way my manga updates get pulled into places like my Now page
- fixing how “Last Updated” dates are saved in my website
- right now with the way my auto deployments work, the server rewrites everything from scratch, so even some of the files I didn’t intend to have an “updated” date get updated… 😅 I realized it after I saw the date in my Now page kept incrementing as I made updates to my other manga updates, but I wondered if the date there should be different instead 🤔 I haven’t had time to think about this yet, so for now I just reverted the change I did before. 😆
And aside from that, there’s also a lot more other issues as TODOs I have listed for my website that I have yet to get back to. I don’t know when I’ll be able to get through them all… I wanna lessen the number soon as the state it’s in now is kinda overwhelming me too 😅
I just saw this on my Facebook Memories post:
Just to add some commentary about the mirror selfie: it’s amusing to me how this is pre-Meta Rayban glasses (as I still was using my Go Pro and a neck mount to record my rides akin to a dashcam on cars) and also this features an old bike I had, when I was still on my starter folding bike.
I also haven’t taken mirror selfies as often as I did before. I’m realizing more now before I turn 30 that I really have to actively take care of myself, and that means I should change some of my eating habits and my lifestyle. That’s a bit more difficult to do as a remote worker and having my default as being a homebody that doesn’t like moving around much… but I’ve been trying new things so far (like kendo!) to get back into the groove of things.
Recently when I do manage to go out, I try to look good in the mirror to give myself a pick-me-up. Sometimes it works, sometimes… I need to change my mindset 😅
Okay, I think that’s enough yapping for now. I hope I find some more time in the coming months to continue making various changes in my website, and maybe even document a bit more thoughts on various topics that interest me. Life lately has felt a bit too fast these past few days, but I know eventually it’ll settle and I’ll also manage in whatever way I can.
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At least, I hope it’s gonna be preserved as a snapshot there! I’m also writing this in the “I hope this actually does what I said it would do” tense lmao ↩
