Weekly Report: September 1st - September 7th 2025
The Week in Summary:
- With Taylor recovering after the festival season and the poor air quality, we generally stayed at home for much of the week and kept it fairly relaxed. For Monday and Tuesday, we spend the day having quality time together. We went for breakfast Galaxie Diner, enjoyed a charcuterie board, played lots of Chess, watched a long video essay (link below), and played Peak with the gang.
- Work was spent prepping for the school year, but we had an internal conference and it was fine. I did spend some time after work one night looking up candidates for the upcoming municipal election.
- On Saturday, besides an early afternoon bike ride along the Bow River, I stayed at home listening to vinyl and reading. Like I said, it was fairly relaxed this week. On Sunday, Katelyn, Ang, Alexis, Sumo, Taylor, and I hiked along Lesueur Ridge Trail and checked out Waiparous Creek. The trail had a relatively steep incline and it proved challenging at times, but we ended up with a great view (and workout) despite the smokey haze on the horizon. On the way back home, we all stopped in Cochrane for ice cream and bubble tea, then had dinner at Boogie's Burgers. Ang recommended it, but if I recall, Jeff possibly recommended it too awhile back (correct me if I am wrong). In any case, it does give Class Clown a run for its money (more testing is needed to determine the best burger in the city.
- I managed to finish Dorian Lynskey's Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. It was a fantastic book that discussed how, at least through a secular lens, humanity has imagined existential risk to ourselves and the planet. I found the latter chapters, especially regarding demographic collapse, resource scarcity, and overpopulation to be very interesting. I also started reading Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.
- Also, we got ourselves a compact exercise bike off Facebook Marketplace. It should be an alternative to daily cycling if we have incremental weather (like this week's smoke).
The Week in Images
