🍋 Issue #8 - Don't Leave Your Summer Plans to Fate
Welcome to issue #8!
I want to stop and recognize the pain, hurt, sorrow, and anger that the Indigenous people of Canada, and particularly my home province of Saskatchewan, are going through in light of the announced preliminary finding of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetery near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
Truly horrific. And there will be more discovered.
I just had my second vaccine shot today so I’m ready to get out there and finally do things this summer that I’ve been putting off for over a year - like finish Breath of the Wild.
On to the links!
Link Thought Things
Speaking of Link… (pause for pun) and the reason I have to get BotW finished sometime in 2021 - Nintendo released a gameplay trailer for Breath of the Wild 2.
Ted Lasso season 2 starts in a month. The trailer has me excited for more Lasso fun. Catch up on season 1 on AppleTV+.
As a kid I was always frustrated with my parents for moving away from the farming background my grandparents were in. Looks like I can start up the new virtual farm in Farming Simulator 22.
While editing a client’s project, I learned about Docusaurus, a tool that helps you quickly build documentation for whatever you want on the web.
Social media managers can all breath a little easier - Instagram may soon let you post from the desktop. I suspect it’s because TikTok has had the ability to upload from the desktop for a while now.
Podcasting Thought Things
In the absence of anything else this week, here’s a new episode of my video game podcast, 25c, with Nick where we catch up on the latest Nintendo Direct, Hades on Xbox, Final Fantasy, Wholesome Games Direct, and ponder the future of streaming games from the cloud.
Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Picture of the Week
Have to go with the selfie taken 16 minutes after I got the second dose of the COVID vaccine. We’re in the midst of birthdays, school wrapping up, summer vacation prepping - but it was good to take a moment and appreciate getting to this point. Thanks to the doctors, nurses, and scientists who helped make this all possible.
That’s it for this week!
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Until next week - thanks for reading!
Chris Enns