Finish Spring 2026, improve cookbook

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 title: 🌱 Now, spring 2026
-date: 2026-01-01
-description: TODO
+date: 2026-04-12
+description: Planning the wedding, reworking my wardrobe. Home reno. Dog escaped.
 kind: now
-draft: true
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-Planning the wedding, figuring out my style.
+Planning the wedding, reworking my wardrobe. Home reno.
 
 {{ fig(src="17670809516920.jpg", alt="Dogs playing in the dog park.") }}
 
+Jojo (the shiba inu) breached containment one night. We were going to take him out on a walk but the dog was nowhere to be seen. The backyard gate was slightly open. We tried finding him by driving around the neighborhood. Some people on social media had seen him walking around so we tried to track him, but we were always too late to the scene.
+
+Luckily, he walked back home and was waiting for us in the backyard.
+
+You're a smart boy, Jojo, but don't do that again. One of the most stressful evenings of my life.
+
 {{ toc() }}
 
 ## TV & anime
 
+I was sick for a week so I had ample time to watch a bunch of stuff from my backlog.
+
 **Started**
 
 - Chiikawa. The episodes are so short that we watch a bunch at a time.
+- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run aka part 7 (where are the episodes, Netflix?)
 
 **Finished**
 
@@ -24,23 +32,44 @@ Planning the wedding, figuring out my style.
 - The Witcher, seasons S2–S4
 - Golden Boy
 - Yuru Camp S1
+- Beyond the Boundary (series and Future movie)
+- Paprika (movie)
+- The Boy and the Heron (movie)
+
+## Manga
+
+**Started**
+
+- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Jojolion, aka part 8
+- Witch Hat Atelier (in Japanese)
+
+**Finished**
+
+- Berserk 1–43. RIP Kentaro Miura.
+- DU-RAN-KI
 
 ## Games
 
 - Stray
-- Pizza Tower
+- Pizza Tower (dropped midway, didn't spark interest)
+- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
+- Warhammer 40K: Space Marine II
+- Absolum
+
+I also won a game of Twilight Imperium (4th ed).
 
 ## Music
 
 - Stopped using Spotify. I already pay for Youtube Premium + Music so I already have a streaming service that I can use. I also try to be more mindful of my music consumption and focus on supporting independent artists and creators. Mostly by buying digital albums or tapes from Bandcamp or distributors.
 - Saw [Merzbow](https://merzbow.net/show/) live.
+- Went to a [Bongo's Bingo](https://www.bongosbingo.fi/).
 
 I listen to a bunch of black metal and adjacent genres. There's a lot of white supremacists and fascists in those communities, especially in the Finnish scene (sadly). I figured I should use a couple of hours to go through some of the artists that I have listened to and see if they're sketchy or not.
 
 I'm happy to find that most of the stuff I listen to is a-ok, and a great deal of artists are vocally against hate, or at least apolitical (whatever that means). However, some artists had slipped through the cracks.
 
 **Mgła** collaborates with Nazis and the frontman has an earlier project with clearly anti-semitic titles and lyrics.
-**Drudkh** is Ukrainian ultra-nationalist. They have an album dedicated to a fascist figure who was a Nazi collaborator, and they have used Nazi imagery during their live shows.
+**Drudkh** has used Nazi imagery during their live shows.
 
 I really enjoyed their music in 2025, but I won't be supporting them anymore.
 
@@ -48,14 +77,31 @@ I really enjoyed their music in 2025, but I won't be supporting them anymore.
 
 <iframe style="border: 0; width: 400px; height: 472px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2777761805/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-spiritual-sound">The Spiritual Sound by Agriculture</a></iframe>
 
-(**Agriculture** is radically left-wing, by the way)
-
 ## This website
 
 The new Zola-based implementation has been working well. There was a bunch of figuring-out to do at first, like how to structure the templates to get the [/now](/now) page working, or how to get the previous/next post links appended to each post, but it's been worth it. Zola compilation is way faster than my earlier custom Scheme-based SSG.
 
 My earlier system had the major upside that it directly read Markdown from my Obsidian vault, which allowed me to edit posts on the go. Currently everything's laptop-driven, which is bit of a pain. I might set up something with file shares to allow editing posts from my phone. Deployments will still happen from the laptop.
 
+## Home improvements
+
+Quick-fire round:
+
+Woodworking:
+
+- new windowsill and shelf in the living room
+  - great for positioning the rear bluetooth speakers
+- shoe rack inside a cabinet in Marika's room
+- shoe rack inside a cabinet in the front door hallway
+
+Bought furniture:
+
+- new metal and glass cabinet in the kitchen
+- a bench for not-clean-but-not-dirty clothes, upstairs
+- a new towel rack for the bathroom
+
+The studio room is also progressing after a hiatus. I got the server/synth rack set up and the old studio desk disassembled. Excited about getting things moving in that room too.
+
 ## Previous update
 
 - [❄️ Now, winter 2025](/posts/now-2025-winter)
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+title: ☀️ Now, summer 2026
+date: 2026-06-01
+description: TODO
+kind: now
+draft: true
+---
+
+{{ toc() }}
+
+## Games
+
+- The Messenger
+
+## New laptop
+
+TODO
+
+## This website
+
+Obsidian + Syncthing
+
+## Previous update
+
+- [❄️ Now, spring 2026](/posts/now-2026-spring)