Weekly Post 6

My weeks got kinda busy, so I did skip last weeks blog post, apparently. I am still very caught up in real life stuff, but next one will be back on track. Sooorry :D

Recap 01

Monday I tried to go through two lectures about energy technology, but that was too much for me. So I went home early, and wrote up the blog post. I also did some lab preparation work for the upcoming digital transmission technology.

Tuesday an electrical engineer from Stromnetz Hamburg came and checked if he can install a small meter, which he couldn’t. We also got another handyman for the water leak. I just realized I didn’t talk about this yet for some reason: On the 24 of April we started to see a bit of water coming out of the chimney wall in our bathroom. We rent, so we contacted our landlords. I am actually quite happy with them, they are quick to respond and nice. So it’s not really their fault, but more about bad circumstances that it still isn’t fixed. In the meantime the water spread from just being a bit of water on the wall to covering the whole part of that wall, the ceiling, our corridor, and the kitchen (with the parts of their wall connected to the watering chimney). Not fun.

Wednesday I went to Uni with a lab, it didn’t quite work out so we have to do some more work on it. Thursday I had a Uni lecture, did a bit of work for the university, and went to my hometown for the youth council meeting. On Friday the expected university lectures.

On the weekend I went to theater with my girlfriend and friend, to the young theatre, which tailors their performances for young people. The play we saw was Im Spiegelsaal, it was about beauty and relationships, especially in the digital age. A good friend of mine who has depression managed to stay clear from self harm for a year this day, big shout out to him! You rock! Sunday we went to a birthday picnic of a friend to Lüneburg. And our power stopped working in the bathroom/kitchen due to the leak, so I had to jerry rig a power cable to the kitchen (especially for the fridge), which is always fun to do.

Recap 02

Monday after uni I went to theater with my roommate, girlfriend and two more mutual friends. Same theatre, this time Leiden der jungen Werte. This is a play on the title of The Sorrows of Young Werther, replacing Werther with the German translation of values. It was an excellent play, I think they captured and transformed the essence (of what I remember from reading, it has been a while lol) perfectly. And a plumber finally fixed the leak in the house, so no more indoor rain \o/.

On Tuesday I had a lab, which worked out rather well, though while writing the lab record I realized I forgot saving one measuring value, which does suck a bit. Wednesday I had a nice talk with the digitalization department in the company, about my bachelor thesis. The idea is to transform the process of approving processes into a proper digital one using Signavio, with some research around it. Now I just need to find a professor who is willing to do it with me. On Thursday we finished another lab which worked out really well before a uni lecture.

Friday I had university lectures and went to my hometown after that to do some tie-dyeing. I spend the weekend with my girlfriend, we went to an Escape Room workshop on Saturday (we will design our own in the youth building this summer), and had a planning meeting on Sunday for the Sweden summer trip with the youth work. I also worked on the lab report.

Culinary highlight

We did a big mushroom lasagna. It was extremly tasty.

Currently watching/reading/listening

I stumbled upon Elise Freshwater-Blizzard and her Middle of Nowhere series. She basically goes to the middle of nowhere in England, finds something interesting historically and does a great job about interviewing local historians as well as playing some roles with well done costumes, it’s a big recommendation.

We also went to the premiere of Mission Impossible. That was the big experience one comes to expect from this series, and it was a good movie for that. However, I wasn’t fully satisfied. It doesn’t have the gadget charm of the previous ones, and had a lot of very long talking scenes. I wouldn’t recommend going into the Cinema, it is totally fine to watch it at home.

And we watched Andor till the last episode. They managed to kinda surprise me with what they put in them, and it was perfectly made. Very excited for the finale.

Games

I started playing Blue prince with my girlfriend. It is a great game, absolutely worth the 30 bucks. I am a bit afraid that it might be a bit frustrating in the upcoming playthroughs when you know everything and just have to deal with/fail because of the random aspect of room drawing. But so far this hasn’t happened yet, we are learning a lot and having tons of fun.

Projects

Thanks to a timely hint by my girlfriend I realized zola serve clears the build directory by default, which I sync to my server. So whenever I tested locally the next blog post I borked my website. Thanks to the wonderful documentation of zola I found the flag to pass to fix this, -o serveFolder to have serve use a different folder then build. But you also have to pass --force now, no idea why.

As always, make the best out of your day!