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Not dead yet


September, October, November, December AND January. That's a long time. Not that I had no hobby activity, but it really wasn't that much. And I had no time to write about it. The end of the year was a very busy time for me and January was not better.

One funny thing happened last December. I found out that I had collected a tremendous amount of 'points' on Ebay because during the whole year I had sold a lot of stuff. I remember that I once clicked YES when the system asked me if I would take part in a 'points program'. Of course, why not? What could go wrong? 

And then... I totally forgot about it until the moment I clicked the menu item out of pure curiosity.

So realizing that I had some 'virtual money' there I looked at my Amazon wishlist, looked the same stuff up on Ebay and when I found it I used the points and bought it right away. It felt like getting the stuff for free. Of course it was not, a seller pays a lot of fees and these 'points' are somehow included there. But it felt like free.

So for two weeks DHL was at my door nearly every day. I bought a lot of books about software development and I added more than a meter of books to my library. Yes, that sounds a bit old school, but a lot of this material is still not available digitally. And you can buy books used and get more for the same amount of money or 'points'. I still like real books by the way.

What else did happen? I bought a MacMini. Because I want to switch development to that environment. Difficult to explain but some things really work better on a Mac than on Linux. Comes the day when you are tired of reading "...oh, and if you would like to install it on Linux look at 'Appendix A' or this website here where it is explained for some Linux distributions but not your generic one...". And often the explanation is wrong or too old. I am really tired of that.

I am still in the process of adapting to MacOS. Making a good mechanical keyboard working on the Mac (in my case a HyperX gamer keyboard) was one of the problems of last days. But the machine is set up for the moment and for the projects I am working on during the next weeks and months.

And now, while looking for a picture to illustrate this post I saw from the dates of the photos on my phone that my routine was disturbed exactly on the day after my last blog post. The day when a water pipe in our bathroom broke...

Interesting to see how single events things can move your attention away and break habits.

So, a sign of life for today. I hope I haven't killed the interest in this blog because it will go on for a long time.