The other day, @zorn mentioned ROM hacking which threw me back to the summer of 2018. One hot evening, I asked myself: what if Tetris only had the straight tetromino? So, I fired up my hex editor and hacked together this thing. 😅 🎮

    A game of Tetris on a Game Boy Color. It looks a bit weird! There's only one type of tetromino, the straight one. The pieces on the screen form the two-letter word hi.

    Feel these words: bulletin board systems, dial-up noises, Commodore, and Nintendo. Now, this sentence: “a comic about ’90s kids making bad decisions over the early internet”.

    Yep, you should add Incredible Doom on your to-read pile. 📚

    A comic book cover. A biking paperboy hurls a newspaper toward a house. The illustration is mixed up with graphic ASCII symbols resulting in a digital look.

    Let’s see if we can transform these ingredients into a tasty lunch. The frozen chunks may look like sorbet, but it’s not. Homemade chicken stock and… cava. 🍾

    A still life. Cauliflower, chicken, champignon, and cheese. Two bowls are containing sorbet-looking frozen chucks.

    This grandfather clock means the world to me. If you open the pendulum door and peek inside, you will find a piece of paper with typewritten words. Signed by my grandpa. The clock was a gift to him from his wife in 1961.

    Every tick-tock reminds me of them.

    The top half of a grandfather clock against an eerie black backdrop. The case's color is bone and the white clock-face features black numbers. Westerstrand Sweden can be seen at the bottom of the clock-face, and the hands show seven minutes until five o'clock.

    Kantarellpizza: chanterelle, gruyère, and truffle mayo pizza. Mmm. 😋 What kind of pizza are you eating tonight? 🍕

    A pizza topped with chanterelle, cheese, mayo, and chive.

    Would you like links to the previous and next posts on your Micro.blog? I put up a short tutorial on the Help center yesterday. Check it out!

    Screenshot of a microblog post. In the post footer, two links are leading to the previous and next post.

    My view outside our kitchen window right before bedtime yesterday. Installing pipes for district heating looks like hard work! The folks down there worked through the night and were still at it when I drank my first cup of coffee in the morning.

    A group of people hard at work installing pipes in the ground. It's dark, so they rely on artificial light.

    Sanna read a couple of pages from The Labyrinth to me during breakfast this morning. Is it possible to start the day off in a cozier way? I don’t think so. 😊 Reading aloud to each other is underrated.

    A breakfast table with eggs, coffee, and yogurt topped with blueberries. In the middle of the table is a book by Simon Stålenhag: The Labyrinth.

    Week 1,849

    Let’s see if I can get back into writing by posting on a regular schedule. Once a week. Cherry-picked tidbits from my life the last seven days. I’ve been alive for 1,849 weeks already, so, without further ado, here’s what happened in the thirty-third week of 2021.

    I got my second jab! 💉 It went smooth, 5 minutes of waiting for my turn and 30 minutes of relaxing after. The arm felt a bit sore for a couple of days, but no other side effects.

    For some reason, The Green Knight didn’t go up here in Jönköping. So, we went out of town to catch it. Totally worth it; the movie was phenomenal! Now, I look forward to Robin’s live reading of the book in January.

    Sanna and I decided to spend our extended weekend at Sommarbo. And what a great decision that was. The water remained warm-ish, the sun shined, and we had a great time. We both agreed the air felt a bit different, though. Autumn is coming! 🍂

    We also sent the second issue of our cozy newsletter about reading. If you cherish books and can decipher Swedish, you should subscribe.

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