We started the week going to the mall. There was nothing we liked. Clothes are really odd colors, odd fabrics, and odd shapes right now. But Julie and I had fun at the Lego store. Then home for Shrimps and Risotto. We had figs and hot honey spiced with chile pequin. Which I thought was delicious, but everyone else demurred.

With the Olympics being over this was our week of getting back to TV. On Monday Julie decided to try a low-FODMAP diet. And… uh… we didn’t really know that onion powder was high FODMAP and we’ve been eating that in everything. Like those Shrimps on Sunday. And the Risotto. And the chicken Julie eats for lunch every day. The rest of the week was something of a food whirlwind as I tried not to poison her.

On Tuesday we had our writing group (if you want to join us, let me know). My prompt was “a Vampire, but for something other than blood”. I wrote about a man who was basically a dung beetle and lived off of compost. I really enjoy writing, and I think maybe I’ll write a romance. Who knows.

It was a sharp contrast to trying to learn Claude Code for work. I’ve been a big Cursor stan, but have been forced into learning Claude Code for work reasons. And man, I am not enjoying it. The tooling feels really bad compared to Cursor and they seem super excited about spending your money. I’m trying to have a good attitude.

On Wednesday I saw “Cold Storage” at my local Regal. I really like that Joe Kearney and Liam Neisan was great as well. Once I saw the writers resume I realized why it was such a good script. It reminded me a lot of “Return of the Living Dead”. A really good script that remembers that horror movies can be fun.

On Friday I got a haircut and got to go see “Have Fun, Good Luck, Don’t Die”. That movie was DARK. Possibly the darkest movie I’ve ever seen. It was a polemic and was perhaps a bit overwrought, but I think it had some valid things to say about Gen X about our acceptance of horrible things in the world.

Saturday we went on the Modern Homes Tour. Our favorite was an amazing New Orleans style new build home in the Garden District. Just an amazing place. Then dropped Callum off for D&D and picked up Stella for dinner at Curra’s. We then hung out with the kids and watched the final episodes of Pop Culture Jeopardy.

We talked about Fisherspooner’s “We Need a War” in relation to our new current war. You know the one the Republican president with a tanking approval started that he says will be over in a matter of weeks. Definitely haven’t heard another Republican president say that in my life before launching two wars. We saw Nine Inch Nails on Sunday (which will be in next week’s weeklog), and songs from “With Teeth” brought back a lot of anger from the Bush re-election era. I try to let things go, but I’m still so pissed that some people are just so cavalier about killing people.