Notes from last week

There was not a whole lot going over the last week, besides trying to keep from melting under the obsessive heat that we seem to be under these days.

Yesterdays was pretty good, despite getting off to something of a rough start. Came downstairs after mowing the lawn to - finally! - grab my morning coffee, only to find out that there was not even enough left for me to fill my mug. Talk about depressing. Sure, we could go the route of "single serving" coffee making devices, but our counterspace is at a premium right now, and no, I will not get rid of my Bunn commerical pourover coffee maker. I've had that thing for about a decade now and it's performed like a champ. I dealt with a lack of coffee and I survived.

Barely.

We had the opportunity to visit with some acquaintances last night as well, who invited us and others over for a pre-fourth fireworks extravaganza that their neighborhood throws. It was cool and pretty neat to get to be involved in what was - essentially - a professional fireworks display so closely. I guess the person that runs it does setups all over the area, so they run this one about a week early…you know, busy with the actual fourth and all. We're looking forward to being back next year. Even the kids had a decent time, or at least the profess to have done so.

I've not had a lot of time to work on my Guix System configuration over the last week, there has been too much going on in the world of work. There still is. This upcoming week is going to be another short one for me too, with the holiday coming up and, sigh, a vacation. I'll need to take the Thursday off as well to burn yet another day of time off. I'm not too certain that I'll get much time during the stay-cation, either, as we really need to work on getting our garage sorted out. We're debating doing a garage sell, but that is just a ton of work.

With that, here are some of the links in my RSS feed that caught my eye over the last week.