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I haven’t been regularly blogging for a while now, and it’s becoming more challenging for me to go back and find when a thing happened. Used to be that my blog was a digital scrapbook of sorts that I could access from anywhere, in parallel with Flickr.

So, as a gift to Future Me, here’s a brain dump of stuff that went on during the week ending 11 April 2026.

Stuck to a permission slip is a yellow sticky note with a hand-drawn piano keyboard. Above it are the words "Major scale" and the letters WWhWWWh to explain whole-steps and half-steps. Below the keyboard drawing is written the phrase "Triads on major scale" and the Roman numerals I ii iii IV V vi vii to denote major and minor chords. — Connor is showing an interest in music theory, so I spent some time before bed one evening explaining the relationship between triads and the major scale.

My hair is finally long enough to pull back and style, so I experimented with this one day before work.

I’ve been keeping a weekly planner/journal for several years, and I find it interesting to go back through prior months or years and see what ideas I had for vacations or what meals I experimented with or what internal crises felt hard enough that I needed to take pen to paper to figure them out. What’s also interesting is looking at how much I update for each day; it tends to slow down over the course of a week, and I can totally tell where I transitioned from actively present to treading water.

This week, that transition started on Tuesday and I was in full-on phoning-it-in mode by Wednesday.

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