This was such a lazy week, and I really enjoyed it! After a task-heavy January, I’m happy to take some free time to chill and learn a few new things. We had lots of snow this week, and the mountains look spectacular, though I mostly sat at home in front of the computer. Running was a little harder due to the weather shift - something around 12–13 km overall, which is fine, I guess.
For almost the entire week, I spent the first half of the day learning After Effects and working, then drawing, cooking, playing Euro Truck (yep), and watching movies. I watched American Primeval (2025) by Peter Berg - love this genre, so I recommend it, but the last 15 minutes are weird, almost like they changed writers at the end. You could probably skip that part and not miss a thing. I’m not a big fan of the series format in general, but I respect when a story is told in 5–6 episodes instead of being milked for 500, so maybe give it a try.
Also, I uploaded a post with flying stones that I made in Blender - check it out if you missed it. In that post, I said I’d show a few drawings in this weeknote, so here they are:
A few weeks ago, I bought a pack of watercolor pencils, and I didn’t even know these things existed, to be honest. (Shout out to Zak for the idea, check out his Januartuary posts, which inspired me!). I tried taking some drawing classes when I was 18 or 19, but it didn’t go well because it overlapped with my first year at university, and I quit after a month or so. I liked it, though! Right thing, wrong time. So now I’m giving it another shot - just for fun this time. No goals, no rush.
It’s funny how long it took me to understand the concept of having a hobby where you don’t need to achieve anything! Maybe I’ll write a separate post about this - it’s had a huge impact on my life. I still decided to watch a few tutorials to get the basics of working with water and brushes. Turns out, it’s harder than it looks, but I promised myself not to binge-watch courses like I usually do.
Music picks from this week, while I'm trying to remember other topics:
Oh, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I have a weird problem with gaming. Not the usual “I play 9 hours a day and can’t stop” problem, but more like the opposite. I love the concept of gaming, and I want to play, but every time I try, I can’t last more than 30–40 minutes. Then I delete Steam, don’t play anything for months, and the cycle repeats.
The only exception is playing online with friends, which feels more like socializing than gaming. Maybe it’s some kind of anxiety, but I just can’t stop thinking about all the important things I should be doing instead. Like, I cannot let myself sit and drive a fucking truck for three hours to deliver 20 tons of milk to Düsseldorf while listening to country music. It pisses me off, and I’m trying to work on it. For the last couple of days, I decided to use it as a form of meditation - just me and the truck, no thoughts about work or the future.
Also, I’ve been thinking about blogging and decided to change a few things.
- I’ll try to write smaller posts about more specific topics (except for weeknotes - those will stay as brain dumps). Every time I try to write something like this post, I struggle to stay on track because everything is connected, and I lose my original idea. Writing shorter, more focused posts should be better practice - both for my English and for anyone reading.
- I have a bad habit of writing in a really dry style, probably because I used to take notes that way - just the essence, no emotions or personal thoughts. I think it’s influenced how I write everything now, so I want to change that. I feel like my posts are already more human, but this is more of a reminder to myself to keep going in that direction.
That’s all for now. Have a nice week, everybody!
And don’t take things too seriously.