Water, salts, black tea, saunas…

• Week of 21-27 October.
• Fasting week 1/3. I figure I’m going to do 3 x 5 day fasts in a row. Paleo over weekends, no food in the week. 10kg fat loss plan.
• Monday, gym, office, dev catch up, sunset podcast promenade walk, watched What We Started on Netflix – good movie.
• Tuesday, black tea, mobility routine, work, backups, lunchtime walk, a water with Georg at La Vie, upgraded a Linode, sunset podcast promenade walk, in bed early.
• I figured I would stick some details of my recent Debian Tweaks post up on GitLab.
• Wednesday, office, sunset podcast promenade walk, in bed early.
• Thursday, up early, work, gym, swim, sauna, work, catch up with Nick.
• Friday, office, fetched Mia from school, late lunch at Vergelegen – first meal of the week, I talked to Mia about her communication habits, she left – I guess we’re into the teenage years now, I went to go braai with Jacques.
• The 4 permutations of relationships: win-win, win-lose, lose-win, lose-lose.
• Saturday, kids party, Joostenberg deli – spectacular omelette (after not eating for a week), watched the rugby, paintball shop visit, watched Joker at IMAX 2D with Jacques, braai again with a vodka soda with limes from Jacques’ tree.
• 2D IMAX is much better than 3D IMAX.
• Joker was lame.
• Sunday, I made a big Spanish style omelette, we watched the SA vs Wales rugby at Rossouw’s, dinner with Wouter and Rene.
• Most important thing. Adventure.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

BLah…

• Week of 14-20 October.
• Monday, school run, work, gym, swim, sauna, work, sunset podcast promenade walk.
• My podcast app now reports 60 days of listening.
• Tuesday, tea, mobility routine, office, dev catch up, breakfast for lunch at Knead, catch up with Nick, 5 hour roast for dinner at Georg’s, we watched Paul – entertaining movie.
• Most big companies last 30 years. Most family fortunes last 3 generations.
• Wednesday, up early, gym, swim, sauna, Strolla lunch, office, nap, dinner at I Love The Dough – which was lame and very noisy, Van Hunks with Pierre, Stefan, Stefan, Al and Adrian.
• I won a R1000 voucher from Den Anker via Instagram (-:
• Thursday, mobility routine, office, dev meeting, breakfast for lunch, Mojo Market, loadshedding fun at the office, Van Hunks with Georg, Anton, Al and Chris, burger in a bowl with Georg at Da Vinci’s.
• Octotel passed the 30k live services mark this week. Close to 50 ISPs on the network now.
• Friday, work, gym, swim, sauna, Waterfront meeting, a Hoegaarden at La Vie with Adrian, loadshedding braai with Wouter and Adrian, time well spent.

• “Not everything can be taught, but everything can be learnt.” — Naval

• Saturday, watched the rugby at Stefan’s followed by a braai.
• Sunday, pastrami and sauerkraut brunch with Wouter at the new Kleinsky’s, watched the SA vs Japan game at La Vie with a Hoegaarden, had to reconfigure the home wifi and migrate to a different controller, sunset podcast promenade walk, backups, watched a Netflix show about Bill Gates while blogging.
• Podcast queue zero. I listened to the Naval mega-episode and the Anything You Want audio book for the 5th time.
• Tune of the week: The Black Keys – Breaking Down

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Adventure games, mobility routines and green smoothies…

• Week of 7-13 October.
• Health week 1/8. Keto week.
• No coffee this week, which I think makes me more productive.
• Monday, tea, mobility routine, work, gym, swim, sauna, keto brunch – omelette with broccoli and sauerkraut, took a walk to the Watefront, haircut at the barber shop, watched Ad Astra – good movie – all about staying calm.
• Tuesday, tea, mobility routine, green smoothie, office, dev catch up, had to rebuild a web server VM – physical host died, left the office fairly late.
• Wrote a blog post with some notes on Debian 10 Server Tweaks.
• Err on the side of action
• Wednesday, tea, work, gym, swim, sauna, omelette and sauerkraut lunch, meeting, fetched Jacques, early supper at Lourensford, we watched Mia’s school play – good fun, many hours invested in rehearsing.
• Thursday, tea, work, mobility routine, green smoothie, BIA machine visit, office, braai with Wouter, Barry and Chris – with some Saronsberg Shiraz for mindful drinking, in bed early.
• Friday, gym, work, fetched Mia, we went for an olive oil tasting at Morgenster, braai at Jacques’.
• Saturday, brunch at Jacques’ with organic eggs from his 3 hens, a visit to Pearl Valley, late lunch at La Motte, sunset promenade walk.
• Sunday, tea, device upgrades and backups, brunch with Mia, green smoothies, Mia finished Sam and Max before macOS 10.15 64bit-only upgrade – so long 32bit adventure games – 30 years of good memories, nap, braai with Mia, Wouter and Zander.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Board games night, oxtail and Black Keys…

• Week of 30 Sept to 6 Oct.
• This post is not late.
• Monday, woke up in Sea Point for a change, walked to the office, dev catch up, sunset podcast promenade walk, watched Annihilation – very good.
• I’ve developed a liking for rice cakes with cream cheese and avo.
• Tuesday, work, gym, work, some fun and games with iOS 13 contacts syncing, oxtail dinner at Hugo and Dennis’ with Georg.
• If your contacts don’t sync well after iOS 13 upgrade using iTunes – I had a bunch of duplicates – there is a setting in iTunes where you can replace all contacts on the phone. Make a backup of your macOS contacts before you upgrade to iOS 13.
• Wednesday, work, meeting at the Winchester, meeting at Strolla, nap, Van Hunks with Johannes, Pierre, Stefan, Anton and Hanrick.
• Thursday, office, dev catchup, breakfast for lunch at Knead, watched World War Z again, board game night at Pierre’s with Stefan and Cinthia – we played Carcassonne – nerdy, but good fun, tasted some very interesting Swartland wines, time well spent.
• The Black Keys JRE interview was pretty cool.
• It’s been a week of introspection, pondering what I should do next year. Purpose and existential stuff.
• Friday, work, backups, watched the SA vs Italy rugby with Paul at La Vie with some Hoegaarden and fresh lime, took a podcast walk to the edge of the Waterfront, Den Anker, dinner at Panama Jack’s with Adrian – good meal, a night cap at La Vie.
• Saturday, early morning promenade walk, gym, swim, sauna, braai at Nick’s, epic nap, watched Mission to Mars again – not bad for 20 year old sci-fi.
• Sauna for at least 20min at a time.
• Sunday, gym, random tinkering and reading, long promenade walk, nap, caught up on some blogging, watched Life Aquatic again – love that movie – and Jeff Goldblum.

• “Son of a bitch, I’m sick of these dolphins.” — Steve

• How many adventures do you have left?
• Tunes of the week: The Black Keys – Little Black Submarines, many great songs, but I really like this one. Check out the new-ish album: Let’s Rock.
• This was a bit of a slow photo week – had to top up with some earlier photos.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Dog sitting, school holidays and braaiing…

• Week of 23-29 September.
• This post is also late.
• Monday, Wolfkop, early Braai-day next to the river.
• Tuesday, public holiday, packing, brunch at Hebron on the way back with Paul and Wouter, dog sitting in Bakoven, Braai-day braai, watched Fantastic Mr Fox and Igby Goes Down again with Paul, great movies – time well spent.

• “Contracts. See, families should be run like companies, with everybody’s responsibilities clearly defined. Children at the age of reason should be provided with legal representation and a contract drawn up. All the best relationships are based on contracts. Bunny and I have a contract. Now that you’re gonna come work for me, we’re going to have one. That piece of paper, Igby, is your clean slate.” — D.H., Igby Goes Down

• Blondi, the Great Dane – is pretty big now – her food comes in 20kg bags.
• Wednesday, caught up on email, fetched Mia, 3rd braai day with Paul and Mia, nap, Mia and I took the dogs for a sunset walk on Camps Bay beach, watched Event Horizon on Netflix – it was pretty much as lame as I remembered it to be.
• Thursday, fed the pets, braai meat for breakfast, work, nap, we took the dogs for a sunset walk on Clifton 1st beach, burgers on the braai, we watched Dark Shadows – which was very entertaining, time well spent.
• Friday, up early, took the dogs for a Beta Beach walk, Mia made us breakfast, Sea Point visit, braai with Pierre, Stefan, Wouter and Etienne.
• Saturday, watched Ghostbusters again, braai with Jacques and family.
• Sunday, wet and windy, conveyor belt sushi with Mia, dropped Mia off at her gran’s, watched Wild Wild Country on Netflix while cooking a roast chicken and veggies.
• Tune of the week: Here Comes My Baby – Cat Stevens

Have a fun week, crazy kids.

Wolfchops, Golden T-shirts, Elgin Chardonnays…

• Week of 16-22 Sept.
• This post is very late, I was out of town for a few days and I’ve been a bit busy, plotting something.
• Monday, school run, gym, sauna, work, lunch at La Vie, nap, work, nap, good catch up with Anton at Van Hunks.
• Most annoying music it the world: VA Grid area.
• Tuesday, office, dev catch up, Sababa lunch, sunset podcast promenade walk.

• “Cheers. To our daughters.” — Dan Aykroyd.

• Wednesday, up before 05:00, moved an ISP to 20Gbps NNI, gym, office, catch up with Eugene at Bootleggers, braai with Wouter.
• I thought I took a Disprin before bed (following red wine with the braai)… but it was Modafinil. Woke up at 4am feeling very refreshed. I kinda remember thinking the packaging was a bit harder to get open and took a bit long to dissolve. Did not seem to stop me from sleeping though.
• Thursday, work, kimchi and eggs, gym, nap, Elgin Chardonnay tasting in Bree stree with Paul – good fun, iOS 13 upgrade – dark mode is rad.
• Friday, work, interesting telecon, packing, road trip to Citrusdal with Paul.
• Saturday and Sunday, Wolfkop, great fun, as always, time well spent.

Have a fun week, crazy kids.