Things

Reminder to future Mose: Buy better pants that don’t have pockets so weirdly angled that any item in your pocket drops out at the drop of a hat.

I’ve now dropped something out of my pockets getting in or out of a taxi for the 4th time this month. This time it’s my debit card…

Thankfully though i know myself well enough that i just figured something like that might happen so i always keep a second physical card with me… just in case.

Now it’s just having to go through the minor inconveniences of updating my payment methods across so many places.

I’ve been playing a lot of Destiny 2 lately, ever since i heard the game was being put in what is essentially maintenance mode and the developers taking a step back with one final update.

Monument of Light is however a truly great final update for this game that i’ve come to love. It fixes a number of issues i’ve had with the game but more than anything it’s also brought back a large number of the community again and the game feels amazing to play again with so many active people.

I’ve played Destiny 2 off and on, mostly on, since early days of The Red War, the first storyline of Destiny 2. While i largely stopped actively playing the game ever since The Final Shape ended the larger storyline that Destiny 2 had been weaving for a while, i tried to dip my toes in to it on a couple of occasions. While nothing really came out of occasionally logging in and trying to see what was new, this time it feels like a great time to return.

It is a bittersweet realisation though because there’ll be no more updates outside of bug fixes or critical system updates. But the community has rallied around the game like never before, and i am thoroughly enjoying getting back into the game with them, once more raiding and finally exploring dungeons.

I don’t know how long this fun period is going to last and when i’ll finally stop playing it for the last time. Destiny 2 has been one of my all-time favourite games and it plays and feels like no other game. I’ve lost myself in the world and lore of this game so many times. However it ends, i know i’m going to enjoy the hell out of this beautiful game while i can.

I have an unwritten and entirely one-way rule with companies sending me emails. It’s very simple one: Allow me to unsubscribe from whatever list i am on in a single click from the email, or i will mark you as spam in Gmail and report you as spam via SpamCop.

That’s it. Companies are getting too comfortable with spamming us, so hitting them with a reputational hit is always a small (and perhaps in the big picture) but important go-fuck-yourself card you can play.

For a good while now i’ve been using the Twos app to just write things down, from quick thoughts, ideas and birthday reminders to movies and just quick todos.

It’s felt really amazing to use it because from my usage of it, it falls right between a task app and a note taking app while not being fully either. What i love about Twos is that everything you write in there is by default, unless you customise it otherwise, a thing. And each thing can become a bullet point, a task or note, or even a sublist.

You don’t have to overthink it, just write it down, and you can figure it out later if it’s something else. For example, movies i add on there are just things that i eventually end up moving to my Movies To Watch list. When i’m ready to watch a movie or two, i change them to tasks and complete them when ready.

Previously they’d sit just as todos in my task management app which never felt quite right either, but Twos has changed my approach to this kind of thing.

It’s also perhaps no surprise then that it’s also the inspiration to the idea here for my Things feed.

As we enter the holiday period the inevitable discussions of holiday traditions and festivities start and i always find myself enjoying hearing about peoples traditions, whether it be with family, potluck with friends or even solitary celebrations which may or may not be holiday-related.

I find myself almost firmly in the latter group, where i don’t celebrate the holiday for any particular reason nor have any traditions at all. For me though, the holiday period is more a period of remembering previous good times and trying to make memories for the next ones to come.

This often takes the shape of eating and drinking good food and drinks. While it’s certainly not a tradition, from time to time i do so crave the taste of gingerbread, specially the traditional Swedish ones i had plenty of in my younger days. While glögg was certainly not a part of my younger days, it has certainly over the years become a cherished opportunity to imbibe some of that warm and spicy spirited drink.

I always try to explain to people that glögg is not mulled wine, or rather it’s fairly different than the typical one you’ll find in many places in Europe, particularly in the Spanish and Portuguese areas. Beyond the usual spirits we add along with the raisins and other spices, we also add a slice (or two) of orange which i always enjoy.

On the food front though i’m very much open and will pick anything available or that i can cook up in a reasonable time, but i must admit to a particular craving for mashed potatoes and meat balls with some lingonberry from time to time, if only to satisfy that urge for a taste of Sweden again. IKEA meatballs and dishes not welcome though.

So if there were ever to be any traditions around this time of the year for me, those would certainly be the closest thing to it and i find that it certainly would make for an excellent tradition.

Here is to the idea that this may come true one day.