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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
I did a bike ride / coffee outside on Saturday. It was a good time!
I wrote a blog post (and some code) about linking back articles to their source and history; a neat hack that utilizes one's git forge instead of having to list the individuals changes in the article, which in my opinion, clutters the reading experience.
I've been avoiding working on this feature for an embarrassingly long time, but I finally mustered the courage to hack something together.
I finally finished removing a massive branch from my tree that fell in my neighbor's yard. I have entire fully-grown trees in my yard that are smaller than that branch was! I've been trying to take care of it for nearly a month now as cheaply (free) as possible. But my lack of experience with a chainsaw and the branch being half-stuck in the tree it fell out of meant it took me so much longer than anticipated. I just felt so awful about it taking me so long because my neighbor actually passed away a few months ago and I promised her daughters (who check in on the house periodically) I'd take care of it. So every time I went outside I had to see it and I felt like shit about it. Like I was letting them and their late mother down. BUT IT'S FINALLY DONE! And I've got a very awesome bonfire in my future when I can make some time to move all that wood across my yard to the fire pit.
On the upside, I learned a lot about maintaining chainsaws, how to safely use them, and got a lot of free exercise lifting logs over my neighbor's fence into my yard. But it just really feels good to have a long-standing project like that pretty much done at long last.