Oops I Did It Again

You’ve been warned

There is some suspense in this post, so scroll down slowly. If you’re going to click on footnotes, press the return arrow to come back instead of scrolling all the way up.

For Future Reference:

Although this has the same date as my first blog, that’s only because it was one of those late at night, 12 AM type of posts. Fear not, it truly is a new day (hence the again).

Housekeeping

A discussion about the current/future state of this site before we truly get started.

• I’m gonna switch the 🌕 to something else, I think it looks great but I’d like to make it more unique
• I thought of adding search functionality to have the ability to look back on previous posts but searching the files on my computer is easy enough ¹.
• I’ll probably get a little logo for the tab bar
• I NEED to add contact info. How else will strangers be able to reach me?

I spent the day around beautiful fall foliage, did some hiking, some picture taking, some train riding, some jigsaw puzzle buying, some movie watching, the usual. I don’t think I want this to be about stuff I did, is that interesting enough? Does it have to be? Who cares?

I have somewhat of an audience at this point (4 people?) so I want to think about them before just writing stuff but maybe that defeats the whole purpose of this. Enough meta-blogging, lets write about something interesting or at the very least entertaining ².

Today I learned about how protobufs perform binary encoding, but anyone can just read about that and I don’t know that I understand it enough to do an ELI5 type of thing so let’s talk about the jigsaw puzzle I bought.

Some years back I interned with friends that said they enjoyed drinking wine and doing a jigsaw puzzle. At the time I thought, “that doesn’t seem too fun, wine is gross”, but now it sounds delightful (apart from the whole wine thing). There is just something about doing a puzzle with a candle going while all your friends are hanging out without you that just does it for me ³.

Well anyways, fast forward (flashback?) to about a year ago, I completed my first 1000 piece puzzle (here) in some time. Today I went into a games/puzzles store with the hopes of getting another, but what should it be?

The last puzzle I bought was a fun, colorful depiction of New York City, it only made sense, I had just moved here! The problem is, ALL THE COOL PUZZLES ARE NYC THEMED ⁴!!! In 20 years I don’t want a closet full of NYC themed puzzles, I wanted to switch it up.

ENTERING THE ZONE OF SUSPENSE

I debated over puzzles with:

• frog species
• dog breeds
• a woman golfing with a beaver?

But ultimately chose…

Oops, I did it again.

In all seriousness though, this was just too cool to refuse. Maybe one day I’ll turn my back on the city and do a random jigsaw puzzle, today is not that day.