Maybe the multitude of mental scars, a mostly uncontrolled weight increase ``programme'', and a couple of gigs to come in the upcoming month that I am allegedly preparing.
(sigh)
Look, life's not bad---I am still alive and well enough to be bitching about things here. But life's not completely dandy either: I've been plagued with bouts of anxiety about many things that I have little control over. I also hurt my right third toe bad enough to have to buddy tape the bloody thing for the whole past week. It has gotten better, which makes me reduce the likelihood that I had actually broke the poor thing---not going to the doctor's to waste four hours to wait for a referral and X-ray to be told of something that is ultimately insignificant.
But let's just look back at the good stuff for the past week.
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I went to the Bach Concertos Extravaganza played by Red Dot Baroque with GY on Sunday. Loved the playing, loved the programme---the German ambassador was present too due to how the event was ``also'' celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between Singapore and Germany.
It was the first time that I was watching/listening to J.S. Bach in concert, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. That toe injury? I got it while sitting wrongly after standing up to make way for other folks on the same row. The circumstances are too embarrassing to talk about, so I'm not going to.
GY had to bugger off immediately after the concert, but other than that, we had a great time.
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I did some tidying up of my own stash of code/configuration scripts. Among those include:
- Tweaking the update period of the NVENV re-coding tool of ffmpeg to stop spamming my screen too hard;
- Adjusted the depth of the histograms of my tempo-estimator to make it easier to see;
- Fixed the Python3.11.13 setup configuration to actually have a usable readline library;
- Upgraded the support library (and build script) for the Ghetto FTP server (it's been waaaaay out of date, seeing that I kept it working for Python2);
- Added a new script to yield the LAN IP addresses to deal with the new access-point specific router/DHCP;
- Added a Ghetto uptime command using /proc/uptime to replace the missing one from Cygwin;
- Reworked my bash prompt to also show the uptime using the new tool;
- Wrote a new Unicode-aware Ghetto del command that allows bash in Cygwin to use the Windows Recycle Bin;
- Updated the way some self-written tools are built/managed to simplify their set up; and
- Updated my .bashrc to take into account all these new alternatives where necessary, as well as fixing up some other default behaviours.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <locale>
#include <codecvt>
std::wstring_convert<
std::codecvt_utf8<wchar_t>, wchar_t> converter;
.
.
.
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
std::wstring s(converter.from_bytes(argv[i]));
std::cout << converter.to_bytes(s) << std::endl;
}
}
It's deprecated in the sense that std::codecvt_utf8 is basically slated for removal in C++26. What a bummer.But for now, it will do what I want it to do, which is good enough.
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The Lord of the Rings trilogy---it's nice to re-watch them again. I miss that adventure story feel, and the re-watch is a nice trip down nostalgia. There's also the start of Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that will take a while to go through.
Binge-watching films [at 1.5× speed] is a new past time/relaxation protocol that I am taking part in. Maybe it's because I'm currently reading too many heavy-weight books (between Fruits Basket, A Critical History of New Music in China, and HBR's 10 Must Reads Ultimate Boxed Set (14 Books), I'm looking at around 9.4k pages of stuff to read, and that's not counting the ESV study bible).
I recently got hold of The Complete Guide to the Flute and Piccolo (2nd Edition) by J. James Phelan and Lillian Burkart, one of the ``crown jewels'' of flute mechanics/acoustics theory. Nice book---I'm almost done with it, and am likely to just carry it along to finish up on my commute.
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I've started back on Persona 5 Royal. I realised that past-MT has set up his team enough that we can immediately go into Sae's palace without having to do any more preparation work, which was cool. The flow is starting to return, and I am enjoying myself again.
I also ``completed'' Beltmatic, a factory-esque game that involved numbers (kind of like Factorio, or even shapez or shapez 2). I say ``completed'' because I was just referring to the Steam achievements, which provide a good enough measurement of progression. Like many of these games, one can go on into ``forever'' with no true end in sight.
But sometimes, the factory has reached its full amount of fun that it can have, and should be retired, and without even starting a new game.
I know of Silksong, but I'm not sure if I ever want to play it myself. I didn't complete Hollow Knight, the predecessor to this game, and from what I've heard, Silksong is just harder than the original game. Besides, I get to watch Tenma Maemi's playthrough the whole game, which I think is good enough.
And no, I don't watch it real-time---VOD, and at 3× speed.
Maybe I might get Silksong when I feel like I have the time to play it (and the money---it's getting a little tight with the focus on food that I have been doing, leading to that weight gain).
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And I think that's about it for recall. Till the next update.
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