My kid made me proud...again. And I had dinner with a new old friend.

Got a new camera in this afternoon! And since it’s a long weekend, I’m going to squeeze in a bit of photography, weather permitting. (And yes, I’m one of those silly people still shooting film)

I've been busy at work which is good because it goes faster. I'm seeing my friend next week which I'm really excited about. I've got the weekend off and I'm having fun planning what boxset to start. Ooooh quite a few things! Not too shabby

My 5 year old son told me: "Ich hab dich lieb Daddy"

We only speak German at home, so it was out of no where and totally unexpected that he said Daddy instead of Papa.

English is my native tongue, so it was really a sweet surprise to here him say that. It hit me right in the heart strings.

I have reached a sort of zen-mode inside. After almost 2 years of near nonstop stress, I have finally found some calm in the middle of everything. Things are still chaotic and uncertain and all that, but I just don't really worry about it right now. I don't know how long I'll feel this way, but I intent to ride this wave and nurture it for as long as possible, because this calm is like a glass of water in a desert.

It's pretty cool to see that the changes I have implemented have already paid off.

I feel so free and I hope it lasts longer than a week.

I've upgraded my CPU. It was the first time I've replaced a CPU on my own, only relying on guides on the internet. It was quite intimidating, but it worked out in the end and now I can play videogames that previously were too laggy or just couldn't run on my PC at all.

The games in question are Elden Ring: Nightreign, Oblivion remake and No Man's Sky.

I've also realised that an outdated CPU was effectively throttling my internet, because even though I had a gigabit connection, my PC couldn't handle downloading stuff at full speed. So that's lesson learned.

Saw my grandson twice. His face lit up with smiles each time.

My job is getting me a work van! So excited to not put the miles on my own car any more

Two week low of major pain let up today. I have been modeling a ton of stuff in CAD to integrate into my bedside laptop stand.

So I knew I could hack this old iPod-dock clock radio easily from multiple approaches, but I finally got around to looking up the display and chips used and it turns out that it is all petty well documented and approachable. Not to mention the hardware build is half decent, especially for an old thrift store junk find. I have to avoid going too far down this rabbit hole and getting lost in the side project, like programming often ends up becoming for me, but it was a nice surprise reading the datasheet and realizing I could mess with it easily. I also seemed to have a few days streak of only encountering nice, real people on Lemmy without any vitriol.

An open source project I co-maintain is about to reach a first stable release. It feels good to put the finishing touches on.

Due to a scheduling conflict, we moved our Seattlevacation up from August to week after next!

I finally got a Plex client up and running on a raspberry pi for my CRT TV. So now I can watch all of my old movies and shows without swapping out a DVD when I'm comfy.