# week 32 of 2026 **August 9, 2026** ![[woodSunset.png|surreal sunset over water with red figure floating in the sky]] Another one of my own images. This was made from a series of wooden texture photos taken in my backyard. A bit of radial blur to get the spinning effect. Darkly surreal and sort of uncomfortable to me. That's about I've felt the last few months. --- It has been a busy summer with radiation/chemo and associated therapies for my wife's brain cancer. I haven't had the time to delve into finding links or sharing information. This is a quick update with stuff I've saved in the last few weeks. For now, it is just links. I hope to process it into something more user-friendly soon. --- https://www.shortverse.com https://quarkdown.com https://www.inconspicuous.info https://specification.website https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html https://www.uxtigers.com/post/gui-widgets https://www.charlesritchie.com/sketchbooks/ > First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. > > **– Octavia Butler** > The enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. > > **— Inventor and author Lin Yutang**