Add weeknote for Feb 28–March 6, 2026; update now page

- New weeknote covering first week at Natera, Gloomhaven returning,
  Dover sole, Girl Scout cookies, and spring allergies
- Update now.md: date, Gloomhaven status, remove Infinity Interactive
  blog link, rewrite "Where my head is" for new-job context

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

content/now.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ title: Eric in the Present
 [locallygrown]: /posts/locallygrown-origin-story/
 [randomrecipe]: https://www.youtube.com/@RandomRecipeProject
 
-This page is all about what I am doing *now*. It was last updated on February 28, 2026, and will be edited as things change.
+This page is all about what I am doing *now*. It was last updated on March 7, 2026, and will be edited as things change.
 
 ## Where I am now
 
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ Currently a few chapters into *Service Model* by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
 
 - **The Outer Worlds 2** — A whimsically dark RPG from Obsidian in the tradition of Fallout. Delightfully cynical corporate dystopia.
 - **Assassin's Creed: Valhalla** — Viking exploration on the Xbox.
-- **Gloomhaven** — Finally playing with a regular group after the game sat on my shelf for years.
+- **Gloomhaven** — Back at it after a two-month break. Approaching the endgame now, maybe three quarters through the story, and every scenario comes down to the wire.
 
 ## What else?
 
 ### Writing Again
 
-After months of silence, I'm writing regularly again—both here and at the [Infinity Interactive blog](https://iinteractive.com/resources/blog). The words are flowing.
+After months of silence, I'm writing regularly again. The words are flowing.
 
 ### Creative Projects
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Nothing on the calendar yet — just getting settled into the new role.
 
 ## Where my head is
 
-The LocallyGrown marathon is behind me. Three months out from the migration, I've found my rhythm again. Writing is happening. Videos are being made. Games are being played. The creative projects that feed my soul are no longer waiting—they're in motion.
+Week one at Natera is behind me. The firehose is real, but the familiar faces help—several colleagues are people I've worked alongside at previous companies. I'm absorbing everything I can while looking for the places where I can start to make my mark. The creative projects that feed my soul are still in motion. Writing is happening. Gloomhaven is happening. Life is good.
 
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content/posts/2026-03-07-weeknotes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+---
+title: "Weeknotes: Feb 28–March 6, 2026"
+date: 2026-03-07T09:00:00-04:00
+draft: false
+tags:
+  - weeknotes
+  - work
+  - cooking
+description: Week one at Natera, surviving the firehose, Gloomhaven returns, Dover sole, Girl Scout cookies, and spring allergies.
+---
+
+*This week has reminded me of my days as a sprinter, on a 4x100 relay. Everyone is running full speed and I need to use a very short runway to match them and seamlessly grab that baton and go.*
+
+## Shipped
+
+I survived week one at Natera. The firehose metaphor has never been more apt.
+
+The company provided a locked-down laptop that requires VPN access to do anything at all. I've never worked this way before, and it will take some getting used to. The lack of control is annoying, but it comes with a corresponding lack of responsibility, which is a trade I can live with. The friction also means I'm far less likely to casually work after hours, and it's flat-out impossible to do anything from my phone or personal machine. There are worse guardrails to have imposed on you.
+
+I did take the time to set up my shell exactly how I like it, with all the tooling I prefer, and created a dotfiles repo that automates everything. If I ever need to switch laptops for any reason, the whole environment comes with me.
+
+## Read
+
+About a gazillion onboarding documents, benefits applications, HR policies, and roughly a dozen code repositories with their associated documentation spread across wiki pages, Jira tickets, and Google documents. I think the last time I read this much in this short a time was finals week my last semester of college.
+
+## Played
+
+After a two-month break due to scheduling conflicts, my Gloomhaven group got back together. We're approaching the endgame now, maybe three quarters of our way through the story including side quests, and every scenario seems to come down to the wire. The balance is exquisite. I look forward to every session we have together.
+
+## Cooked
+
+The Publix a few houses up the road from me has an unusually good fish counter, and this week they had fresh Dover sole filets. I'd never cooked those before, so I grabbed a few and pan-seared them with a lemon caper sauce. Fantastic.
+
+Some friends of mine have a young daughter in her first year of Girl Scouts, so naturally I had to buy a year's supply of cookies. We met up at the neighborhood brewery and I spent the afternoon catching up with them, munching on Thin Mints, and drinking a stout named after Henrietta Lacks. If you don't know the name, she's the woman whose cells became the first immortal human cell line, contributing to enormous advancements in health and cancer research, completely unknown to her or her family during her lifetime. Given my new employer's mission, the coincidence landed differently than it might have a month ago.
+
+## Noticed
+
+Spring has sprung, and my seasonal allergies have kicked in. Mine hit very early in the season, caused somewhat ironically by juniper pollen, and they're mercifully short.
+
+I've worked alongside several of my new co-workers before at previous companies. Some are longtime friends. I helped build from the ground up software systems very similar to what they are building here. So much is familiar, and yet so much is new. The familiarity helps me settle in. The differences keep me on my toes and remind me I cannot be complacent about anything.
+
+## Thinking About
+
+How to balance two instincts that are both firing at once. My tendency in every new environment is to take things in, observe, listen. But my other tendency, the one that always follows close behind, is to naturally rise into leadership roles. I want to intentionally accelerate that here. Partly because a large organization is easy to get lost in, and partly because there seems to be a vacancy in the org that is somehow exactly Eric-shaped.
+
+## What's Next
+
+Grabbing the bull by the horns, as they say. I want the people around me to simultaneously feel like I've always been here and wonder how they ever managed without me.
+
+## Vibe Check
+
+Baton in hand. Running.