Things I've Enjoyed This Week, Issue 3

Yeah, I'm restarting this series. Why not?

🎒 I got a new backpack. The Tropicfeel Shell 30L backpack. I used to have a PeakDesign Everyday Backpack 20L in grey, but it was too small and the straps were oddly creaky.

👨‍💻 I contributed some more to Homebrew – particularly Sorbet stuff. This PR reduced the size of the repo by slimming down the RuboCop RBI, and this PR adds a new RuboCop rule. A combination of developer experience stuff with Sorbet and RuboCop – the things I enjoy a lot!

💪 I joined a gym. And a few days later I got COVID. But I joined a gym! Because since I turned 30 the metabolism isn't what it once was. I've got strength in my legs from walking and cycling, but my upper body is just mush. I signed up for personal training for a few weeks – the first one this coming week – to teach me what to do and when and try to solidify my fitness goals. Gyms are intimidating as someone who has never before "needed" to do exercise.

📚 I read Be Patient by Tilly Rose, a terrifying and fascinating memoir into the patient experience in the UK's NHS. And in fiction I'm a third of the way through Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami.

☕ Owing to having to drastically cut down the amount of full sugar Coke I drink due to the risk of type two diabetes, a few months ago I got a Nespresso machine. I've been through all of the pods over the past months, and landed on these Illy pods that actually tastes pleasant, as well as these pods from my local coffee roaster. It's not too bad an adjustment. I allow myself one Coke a week now as a "treat" before or after my weekly therapy appointment!