Weekly Post 2

Recap

This was a very normal week, but we had eastern holidays over the weekend. During the week, I had a work meeting where I recapped something for a new person in the call, which I already told one of the other colleagues and summarized as an E-Mail. I love working in big companies. I went to the youth house I am active in on Thursday with my girlfriend, and we made some small improvements to the place.

I started the eastern holidays with seeing my brother Thursday evening, who lives half the country away from me, so I don’t see him as often, we had a nice evening together. Then we had a quite relaxed Friday, and we visited my grandparents from Saturday to Monday. We also had to move the chickens with us, because one of them got sick and needed to take her medicine. It was a lovely weekend, we did some garden spring work, hunted easter eggs, went to Mass, I played a bit guitar, and we had a good time together.

Weekly thought

I am very jealous of people realizing hardware projects. I tend to take a lot of time to do those, but I frequently see some and feel really inspired to do them myself. For example, a friend of mine self-made a light-saber where one can control the LEDs/sounds way better than you can on any bought ones, which is so awesome.

Speaking of Star Wars, B2EMO looks like such an awesome project to do, lots of metal bending and moving parts, and drives around.

Other projects would be:

• finally getting a voice modulator chip to work so when speaking into it the voice gets disturbed to sound like Alastor, which would be really satisfying to do, but I also can’t seem to find the time even though I’ve got lots of hardware already there for it.
• attaching a mail tube to our buildings entrance, in order to have our newspaper protected in there (maybe I should ask for permission from our landlords. Or rather forgiveness)
• either implementing the smart stuff I already made into our letterbox, or making a second key so me and my friend don’t have to share one key
• coming up with a proper system to categorize and list the inventory of the workshop in our youth house, so it’s easy to know what and how much of it is where.

Culinary highlight

I again didn’t really take pictures of these I gotta start with that.

• We made a tasty marinated tofu dish with noodles.
• I made a tasty tomato salsa and gnocchi dish with my brother, and some applecrumble as desert. My father enjoyed it so much he ate half the tray after he arrived late in the night.
• And well, being with my grandmother who loves cooking is a highlight in itself

Currently watching/reading/listening

• I watched Spider-Man No way home with my brother since he hadn’t seen it yet.
• I enjoyed testing Lateral with my girlfriend and flatmate, and later playing it with my family. Lots of fun, can really recommend doing it.
• And I made huge progress with Oathbringer. I enjoy so much in the craft, he is a really skilled author. I will probably write about it next week

Games

• Played a couple rounds Marvel Rivals with my friend. It is such a fun game, like Overwatch was years ago.

Projects

• I realized the website deployment with Syncthing, which broke, probably because I made the website a subfolder of another Syncthing folder. Being stubborn I just switched the marker to a different one ’cause apparently one can do that, which is neat.
• Speaking of the website, my girlfriend started giving her comments and advice on the language of the posts, so they are linguistically improved now, thanks love.
• I found Zettlr a while ago for editing Markdown, and I discovered this week that it also has a spell checking feature which is disabled by default. It is not anymore, I feel very checked.

I am very satisfied with my note taking, and the blog post (though it devolved to just lists in the end). This Happy Easter, see you next week, and have yourself a damn good one.