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Work Work Work

Came back from watching the cabin, was at home for 6 days, then went to Denver on business. And I still like taking pictures of cars, so that’s a Colorado Vanagon up there.

No Humidity

Weather in CO is incredible. Someone put a really fine point on it by explaining that you can open a bag of potato chips, leave it on your counter for weeks on end, and they won’t go stale.

Yes Breweries

This isn’t necessarily a draw for me, but holy shit are there plenty of places to drink nice beer. We hoofed it to a few different neighborhoods and one of them was seemingly nothing but warehouses converted into brewpubs. You couldn’t walk a block without tripping over a New American restaurant with a dozen drinks on tap. Shit was bananas.

Traveling Poorly

All that airplaning and elevation did a number on my body, and I was sick almost immediately upon landing. What this translated to is a summer cold that I’m still taking acetaminophen over. Maybe it’ll be cleared up by tomorrow? Or not. DayQuil is free at the office anyway, so who cares!

Reintegrating

Travel is most likely done until the end of the project, meaning I can settle in and enjoy the warm city weather and my new-to-me old car… WITH AIR CONDITIONING. That’s a big deal because it’s been… 6 years since I’ve had the luxury of real climate control in a vehicle. The plan is to go hiking every weekend I don’t have any obligations. Maybe go see a house in PA every now and then.

Next!

I’ve been wondering if I should’ve set this up as an indie-web friendly site with a fancy CMS and webmentions and all that jazz, but the only thing I’m truly missing out on is easily posting dumb shit from my phone, which if I’m being honest isn’t the primary source of thoughtful content from me. So I guess it’s no big deal that I’m writing each of these things in Atom.

On the hardware front I’m learning how to set up Docker stuff on a Raspberry Pi. Right now I’ve go one running NextCloud and that’s cool because I don’t have to use The Goog for calendars, contacts, file sharing, etc. It’s looking like I’ll be switching to a dedicated server NUC in the near future. The trickiest thing is juggling all the ports on a headless Raspbian Lite install. Sure do miss me some GUIs.

I’ve been reading a ton of books lately - technology, design, environment, scale - and want to bring some field guides into the woods to see if I can actually point at stuff and figure out what’s what. Saturday is gonna be pretty nice. ☯