housekeeping notes

1. My sources tell me that Project Hail Mary doesn't open in South Korea until April 17. I might have to heave my large self up in lovely spring weather next month and watch this movie some weekday.
2. I had to kill (throw away) my lovely black jacket, gifted to me by my boss in 2024. It had a lovely, heavy-canvas exterior and was reliably water-resistant, but the interior lining might as well have been made of toilet paper. Despite knowing this, I decided to risk giving the jacket a gentle wash in my machine upon returning from my 3/5-completed Geumgang walk. Result: thousands of little, ripped-up scraps of fabric all over the place—all over my other clothes (I had put in only one other jacket in that load because I suspected trouble), and all over the inside of the machine. So I scraped out the machine and ran it while empty to rinse it out, shook the scraps off my other jacket (my old, blue windbreaker), vacuumed the scraps up (I have a hand vac now), bundled up the black jacket, and tossed it in the trash, where it now awaits its ultimate fate: disposal downstairs and, eventually, reintegration into the churning cosmos as it breaks down naturally. A sad end to what ought to have been a decent piece of clothing. And no, I'm not putting it in the clothes-recycling hamper downstairs so someone else can use it: the jacket has no lining now, and it's a mangled mess. If I didn't think it'd be expensive, I'd ask a seamstress or alterations expert to rip out the remaining lining and install an sturdier interior, but as I said, that'd be expensive.
3. I'm chugging through my walk blog to finalize it. All the pics are installed and enlarged; the postmortem has been written and even revised; all that remains are the captions and extra commentary. I'll announce when I'm done.
4. Otherwise, it's back to Substack-content generation, working on projects, and—if possible—some video-making. I really need to get into the video-making.