Excellent new-to-me term: “onceability”:

the quality in a technical system that prevents a user from restoring the system, once it has failed.

Everything feels like this now. All the cheap little Internet-of-Things devices that suddenly and irrevocably forget what Wi-Fi even is and repurpose themselves into expensive breathing orange LEDs. Overdue to go around plucking them off of power strips like gross little weeds.

Severance season two finale: 👍👍. The discourse around any popular show almost immediately gets exhausting nowadays, but they certainly landed the plane for me. Felt like a love letter to filmmaking.

Took advantage of a disturbingly warm March day to get the bike dusted off for the year. Turns out that despite being sunny, it was way too windy and I spent a good amount of the ride translating perpendicularly into the curb. Still a nice expansion of the places I know how to bike to well into River West.

Lovely walk down to the record store to pick up one particular thing, and absentmindedly flipping through the stacks like I used to so many weekends at Amoeba on Sunset. Picked up some nice surprises and completely forgot the thing I came for.

Which gave me an excuse for another bike errand the next day to the other location of the same record store, which was more successful in the sense that I bought the record I tried to buy the day prior, and dramatically less successful in that I had to fight against pouring rain and a splitting headache the whole way.

Still: biking outdoors in March. Who can complain?