After being gone all of last week, it was nice to be home and in a little bit more of a normal routine this week!
However… as luck would have it, I had actually moved my Fargo trip from last week forward, as this week’s schedule needed my attention in-office for training on some new systems.
Training Tuesday - Friday meant that I moved a majority of my normal meetings to Monday, and Friday afternoon. Which meant that my coworkers barely saw me at my desk, even though I was often in the office before they arrived, and stayed until after they left. 🙃
Wednesday evening I went to dinner at a local Texas Roadhouse with some colleagues in town for the systems training.
Saturday morning, I got up and (for the first time in weeks) mowed my lawn. We’ve had just enough rain in the past week to cause it to grow, although only certain patches really needed any attention.
Saturday afternoon I spent some time playing StarCraft II for the first time in years. I’ve gotten in the habit of watching interesting pro-level matches occasionally on YouTube, and wanted to try my hand at the campaign again. It was a fun diversion from the types of games I’ve been playing recently!
Saturday I also spun up an Immich instance on my TrueNAS setup. I’ve talked about Immich in the past, but had not dedicated time to getting it functional again after my server rebuild. After a bit of tinkering, everything is running, and I’m slowly working to rebuild my photo library from a combination of backups and iCloud Photo sync. Since I’m currently heavily in the Apple ecosystem, my opinion is that it makes sense to use the features of iCloud Photos, but I want a functional copy on my own infrastructure in case that ever changes.
And that brings me to today! This morning I attended Divine Service as usual, then did my weekly grocery shopping. After church, I spent more time migrating data to my Plex & Immich instances from backups, and continuing to catch up on work communications from the past few weeks.
Next up: post this, then start preparing for dinner! See y’all next week!
