# My week 3 (CW 13 2025)

2025-03-30

🗓️ // March 24-30, 2025

⏪ This week

• 🏫 Well, it’s been a 180 degree turn from last week. Responsibilities changed due to a colleague who indicated interest in the duties I had been assigned by the boss. We basically switched our tasks so I will be responsible for managing the substitution plan with another colleague. Dodged a bullet there, phew.

• 👶🏼 The little one keeps us on our toes – especially my wife. He’s in his second big infant development boost which makes him scream – and I really mean scream – whenever he’s not “attached” to my wife. My stress level immediately shoots through the roof whenever my wife leaves me alone with him, because right now there is no (!) way of comforting him for me. At the same time – while our older one wasn’t as hard on us this much – it’s interesting to see that there seems to be an evolutionary system in place, making parents forget those kind of things in time for the idea of a second/another pregnancy.

• 🤒 This week was pretty tiring as our older one caught some kind of virus at kindergarten. So the nights were pretty tiring, as were the days. While I’m writing these lines, she’s finally sleeping well again. Fingers crossed, the rest of us – especially the little guy – won’t catch it, too.

• 🥘 On Sunday it was my father-in-law’s birthday. So he invited us to lunch at a nice restaurant. Fun fact: the last time we went there, it was the day before our second child came into our lives. And this time, everything went surprisingly well, considering the current situation mentioned above.

📸 Photos

Well, it’s been the first week without Hiro’s Photo Challenge. And I really miss it, as it made me get out even during weeks with loads of other responsibilities. So I hope next week I’ll have more time to take some nice pictures. At least the weather forecast looks promising.

📺 Watching

• 🍄 Common Side Effects (Season 1)  The penultimate episode of season 1 was really great. A lot of revelations happened and I’m really looking forward to the season finale. And I was very happy to read that a second season was greenlit – yeah! After Scavengers Reign, which hadn’t been renewed back then, I’m especially happy for Joe Bennett.

• 🏪 Superstore We’re in season 6 now and the episodes were quite emotional. It’s noticeable that the show is coming to an end. We’re eager to find out the paths each of the characters are set on.

📚 Reading

I just dusted off my Kindle Paperwhite and started to read again.

• Life ceremony by Sayaka Murata The first short story was already quite weird. And this time, I’m not sure whether I’m going to continue to read the rest of the book. It seems to me that Murata either took a bad knock at some point in her life or that writing about cannibalism again and again is supposed to boost sales, because it’s scandalous. I feel cheated as a reader, because it seems too obvious. That’s one reason, why I just couldn’t stand “The Café on the Edge of the World” by John Strelecky. With both it seems to be too easy to see behind the curtain.

• A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape by Joe Pera and Joe Bennett This, however, is a nice read. It’s funny and beautiful at the same time – and … so true.

💿 Listening

This week was mostly listening to podcasts in the car or children’s songs at home – again.

🔗 Links

This week, I was rushing from work to home to appointments to doctors – and there was almost no time to really surf the web or social media.

• Lumon Terminal Pro: As a Severance fan I love this page in Apple’s online store. And I really liked watching the short behind the scenes of how Severance was edited on Mac.

• Prints of Tokyo past and present. I really like Lee’s blog posts and photos on different interesting parts of Tokyo, most tourists (and maybe even Tokyoites) will overlook or never experience.