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Weeknotes - W40/2026 (No.6)

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So it's October. At least we'll be on normal time again, soon. (I hate DST with a passion.) And the temperatures have been too warm, but at least it hasn't been cold too often yet. (I hate cold weather.) Lots of hate in this preface. 🫣 So let's turn our attention to the good stuff.

Goings on 🚶‍♀️‍➡️

  • A few weeks ago Hyde asked me to be part of his Over/Under series he's been doing on his blog. I said yes and agonised over all the topics and questions for days, because I don't want to sound stupid to strangers on the internet. LOL On Monday the post went live: Over/Under #85 with Elena. That's me! ☺️
  • Between Sept 23rd and 25th, 1726 a big fire burned down about ⅘ of my home town Reutlingen. Miraculously only three deaths are reported: an elderly man died in the flames, and two babies during birth (it's thought they were pre-mature due to shock). For this year's 300th anniversary two artists put on a video installation show in the biggest church in town. (Scroll down a bit for a short clip of impressions.) I went to see it this week with my mother, my father couldn't come unfortunately. It was really well made with projections on the walls and ceiling, as well as a huge screen in front of the altar and really dramatic organ music. Here's a little chronology of the fire, albeit only in German. Fun fact: our world record of having the narrowest street in the world is a direct result of the big city fire.
  • Oct 3rd is German Unity Day, our national holiday. Along with Nov 9th, the fall of the Berlin Wall, a good reminder of what great courage and peaceful protest can bring.
  • Next step in my quest for a fedi experience I want: Only boost beautiful, encouraging, funny, positive, solutions oriented things. At least for a while. More steps are on my to do list. But I like to take things one step at a time. I also dug out an old draft about this very topic to re-work and update and finally post in the near future.

Media 📚🎞️🎧

  • I started and stopped listening to a space adventure audio play. It sounded cool, but by episode three there were exactly 2 female characters (among many male ones): one flirted with the male protagonist (and he with her), the other was jealous, and an android. Boooooooooring! Does anyone know fun (!) space opera/ adventure audioplays (or books) with more and "normal" women/ not men (as in not just there as the love interest to the male main character)?
  • After a pause of over a month I continued to listen to Stanisław Lem's "Star Diaries". There's a well narrated German edition that I enjoy listening to. Great stories. Both fun and deep.
  • And I finished my re-watch of German science fiction series Raumpatrouille. My fedi notes about episode 6 "Die Raumfalle" and episode 7 "Invasion". This show is both very much of its time (1966) and very modern for its time. All in all always great fun to re-watch, despite some cringy embarassing moments. I am so sad that German tv and film turned away from fun science fiction like that. It's not serious enough for German seriousness I guess. So German sci fi is all dark and weighty. 🤷‍♀️
  • No DS9 episode this week. I can't watch so much stuff all at once. Two episodes over the weekend is all I manage. LOL Am I getting old? Will catch up next week.

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- Elena.

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