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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
Last Saturday, my partner and I threw a party / had a commitment ceremony at the local science museum. It was a lot like a wedding, except that we didn’t get legally married. We both had a blast, and everything went really well. We’ve been together almost six years now, and I’ve known since I was a teenager that I never wanted to be legally married. He didn’t have a strong opinion either way, so here we are.
He’s spent the rest of this week doing an electrical overhaul of my new/old truck, so I finally get to have CarPlay! Really looking forward to that. :)
Daydrinking and staycationing. Mostly blasting Central American music while sitting on my balcony and drinking tropical drinks in the 30+ degree heat in Central Europe. Also had a going-away party with soon-to-be-former coworkers at a Witcher-themed bar.
I drove from Portland, Oregon to San Antonio, Texas to see my sister get married. It has been a while since I had a road trip like that. My spouse and I took turns driving, it was quite long but was an enjoyable experience.
My wife has been sick this week so it's been all work, housework, and taking care of the kids for me this week. But it gave me the opportunity to cook, which I really enjoy.
For the last 9 months, she gets flu-like symptoms for a week every month. She never tests positive for any infections and the doctors can't figure it out.
She has an extensive history of auto-immune issues so it's probably connected to that, but we still don't have a diagnosis.
Onboard training, mostly watching project managers coordinate a project. It's super boring to watch, even if they're at an exciting phase where they're rolling out on-site infrastructure in a week. The rest is completing these training modules I have to do, and getting ready for more training in Chicago at the end of the month, which should be fun.
I bought a MKUltra Pancake keyboard kit so I can finally have a bluetooth 4x12 keyboard, and look forward to assembling it when I get the control board and battery from Adafruit, but that'll probably be next weekend. I also want to make the pancake recipe printed on the bottom plate.
I switched my Surface Go to Fedora which worked surprisingly well OOTB, but still wound up adding the linux-surface kernel to it because I didn't have frequency scaling or a cursor. I just went with Workstation, since GNOME is nice for tablets (I'm normally a KDE guy these days). I then installed Fedora on my desktop (next to my beloved Arch install) to pre-work a bunch of things I'll want on the tablet and understand what I'm doing so I can roll it out on my Surface. I also bought a dock for it for like $30 that works just fine.
I upgraded my desktop's Windows 10 install to 11 while I worked on my work laptop and it's been near seamless. Some stuff like FlexASIO broke, but I just need to take a few minutes and see about fixing it. Everything else that is more or less standard, like applications and settings, is working totally fine. I even sort of like the GNOMEy look to everything.