Hacking on hangovers, and a breakup…

• Week of 11-17 December.
• Monday, I sent Derek Sivers an email, backups, late afternoon La Vie supper with Heleen, ended the relationship with Heleen. Breakups are not fun.
• Tuesday, not the best morning, walked to the office, server install – with some friends – for a friend, figured I needed some new ssh keys – ed25519 format, played with Salt.
• Wednesday, made some ascii art, office, afterwork burger at Jerry’s with Georg, tinkered with Salt Cloud and libvirt.
• Be resourceful. Walk through walls.
• Thursday, gym, sunset walk, read a book about Salt.
• Everything is virtual now.
• Friday, office – new software release day, tinkered with virt-manager, evening out with Georg, Roast & Co dinner in Heritage Square – good food, we walked to The Secret Gin Bar – bumped into Christo – I had a heart remedy G&T, Aces & Spades.
• We pretty much built a full OSS/BSS system for Octotel over the last 10 months. I think it’s kinda cool. Still some parts to automate, but it supports all the business processes now, with web interfaces for staff and ISPs, all via REST APIs.
• I wish Paul Carr would write something profound again.
• Be relentlessly optimistic. Calm, technical, relentlessly resourceful, relentlessly optimistic, infinite learners.
• Saturday, a disprin and rehydrat kinda morning, tinkered with DPDK in a VM, Van Hunks with Georg, Anton, Diabi, Claus and Michael – until they closed.
• Had a few nice flow states this week. Learning and creating. I think I understand Salt, KVM, LVM, SR-IOV, DPDK, VPP, FRR, Docker and VNFs a bit better now. I built a linux kernel again, for the first time since maybe 2009, it creates about 10GB of binaries, crazy.
• Sunday, more disprins and rehydrat, more NFV hacking – deep nerding – lost some time, White Russians at La Vie with Georg.
• Holiday soon.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Ghee in my tea, and three Clifton sunsets…

• Week of 4 to 10 December.
• Monday, tea, backups, worked at home while Mia watched the first Lord of the Rings movie – not my idea, we found Mia some new shoes, podcast drive to drop Mia off at a friend’s party, found a 10m measuring tape for Mia’s shot put hobby, nap, cooked some broccoli and kefir shots with Heleen.
• Raise resourceful children.

• “Stupid is normal.”

• Tuesday, gym, office, clicked around shipping tracking websites, showed somebody Jacques’ car, software testing, got some new GPON toys, found some ghee, Kauai Vitality voucher breakfast for supper (was out of ideas).
• I’m still on the 6g VitC per day plan. I think it might be working.
• Wednesday, office, Clifton 1st sunset with Georg, Dan and Heleen, quick promenade walk to get 10k steps.
• Listen to the The Polybius Conspiracy.
• How many companies could you still start, with the energy / health-span you have?
• One good reason for longevity… I figure it takes most people until around 35 to find and fix themselves.
• Thursday, ghee in my TiTea, gym, office, wrote a newsletter, Clifton 1st sunset with Georg, Cath and Heleen – great swimming water temperature, burger in a bowl at Da Vinci’s, vegan ice cream, in bed a bit late.

• “Bitcoin isn’t a bubble. It’s the pin.” — Simon Dingle

• Friday, office, dev meeting, Jacques fetched a server, extended Clifton 1st visit with Georg, Cath and Heleen, stayed on the beach till well after dark, Mojo market, time well spent.
• Keep learning and researching. Things seem much less intimidating if you encounter them a 2nd time.
• Saturday, breakfast at La Vie, started a broccoli sprouting project with Heleen, lunch at Helemhuijs with Paul, Darryl and Felix – very good – have not seen Felix since aB 2015, walked around De Waterkant, wine tour with Heleen, drove to Beau Constantia – which was a bit lame, Buitenverwachting – which was very nice, Chapmans Peak Hotel visit, we made some gluten-free wraps, 11h sleep.
• Sunday, up early, gym, breakfast with Jacques at Harvest Cafe in Bo Kaap, we installed Debian 9.3 on a quad core Xeon server with 32GB memory – NVMe drives are crazy fast, braai with Wouter, Rene and Alex, fell asleep learning about SR-IOV.
• Page 701 is going to be exciting. Listen to the Tim Urban interview with Tim Ferriss.
• Tune of the week: The Killers – Run For Cover

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Three Riddick movies and high doses of vitamin C…

• Week of 27 November to 3 December.
• Health week 4/4.
• Monday, skipped a gym day, walked to the office, late afternoon Clifton 1st session with Georg and Heleen – swimming and some aerobie playing, Hussar steak with Georg.
• I’m experimenting with 6g VitC and 6g Lysine per day – Pauling method. Cholesterol hacking takes time. 3 month cycles.
• Tuesday, office, dev meeting, lunchtime smoothie podcast walk, nap, reading and watched some Open/R videos.
• Are your Tuesdays happy?
• Worth a read: things which lower testosterone. I’m on 581 ng/dL total Testosterone at the moment. Not ideal.
• I went full hippie and now use organic shampoo and conditioner.
• Being over 40 is all about avoiding chronic inflammation and muscle loss.
• Wednesday, walked to gym, podcast walk to the office, some sysadmin tasks, backups, photo processing, new major version of the Octotel automation system went live, I took 10g of VitC in total through the day.
• The JP diet. Maybe Jacques will go gluten free now.
• Businesses run for love. Love the businesses you build.

• “Cattle, not pets.” — DevOps

• Thursday, mobility routine, walked to the office, data migration day, vitB shot, hardware shopping list refactoring at La Vie with a glass of Chardonnay, in bed early.
• Friday, just in time hardware shopping before Jacques arrives back from London, gym, fetched Mia from her last day of school for 2017 and had a nice lunch at Vergelegen to celebrate, afternoon at Dirk’s house – we chatted about Instagram for anti-social people, just in time visit to the Waterfront VIP cinemas to watch Justice League – which I thought was rather lame, but Mia seemed to like it, epic weather, walked around the Volvo Ocean Race exhibition again and let Mia do the excavator challenge, I finished it in 48sec this time, fish and calamari for supper, vegan ice cream, in bed early, time well spent.

• “acting like the Doomsday Clock has a snooze button.” — Justice League

• Context before conversation. Reverse polish notation.
• Saturday, backups and reading – nerdy rabbit hole as usual, brunch at Blue Cafe in Tamboerskloof with Mia – the full monty with kefir shots, we watched 12 Monkeys – Mia enjoyed it, cooked Mia some broccoli.
• I’ve consumed at least 200g of collagen in last 30 days.
• Sunday, made Mia some breakfast and watched Pitch Black, lunch at with Georg and Mia at Manga in Mouille Point – the food was pretty average, but the dessert was rad, watched The Chronicles of Riddick with a Famous Grouse, braai at home, wrote a blog post about How To Browse The Web, watched Riddick, sunset promenade walk with Mia, we watched The Prestige – great Nolan movie – Mia was somewhat confused, but it was cool to see her work it out.
• We’re making slow progress with the Geeky Movies list.
• Cool little film about happiness.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.