We’ve all been sick with a cold this week. Charlie got it first and recovered the fastest. Amanda got it next and was down Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I got it Saturday afternoon and was down most of Sunday. Hopefully I’ll recover quickly.
Thursday and Friday after work/daycare, and Saturday after dinner Charlie and I hung out a lot to give Amanda some time to rest. We went to the library to pick up some books we reserved (Charlie had some requests!), two different playgrounds, the grocery store, the riverfront walk, and an ice cream shop. Charlie’s new ice cream order is chocolate with a cherry on top. (I think he picked that one up from Trash Truck.)
One of my favorite things is toddler-led walks. He chooses the pace and where we go. I follow his lead and cues. I love how much he notices and how curious he is. Afterward at dinner he recounted to us everything we did and saw, quite accurately.
Charlie is big into helping. Here he is helping make breakfast while Amanda is on her way back from the gym.
Here he is holding some daffodils that he and Amanda cut for our mantle:
As we start the engine, so we start our days.
I’m loving the griddle we put on one half of the grill. It is nice to quickly cook some veggies while grilling some meat. Monday we did a pork tenderloin with some zucchini and squash while rice cooked inside.
I finished restoring a cutting board that was my Mamaw’s. My Dad grabbed it when they were cleaning out the house after Papaw moved in with my aunt and uncle. She’s been gone almost 11 years now.
First I had to glue some sections back together. It fell apart.
Then I sanded down the pretty deep knife cuts and general wear.
Finished with my standard beeswax + jojoba oil blend. Started using it in the kitchen the next day.
Keeping with the woodworking trend: I made more french cleat holders this week after work:
- a chisel/gouge/hook knife/carving knife holder
- measure tape holder
- Foredom rotary tool holder
- a cord holder so I don’t have to go hunting behind my Shopsmith for the cord
- clamp holder
- holder for Hand drills, push drill, and hand brace
I’m particularly excited about the Foredom being hung, because I ran the speed control pedal under the bench, so now I can just turn it on and use it rather than spend 5 mins getting it set up for a 30 second task.
I’m trying to tee projects up for myself in the workshop so I can jump on them when I have a little bit of free time. The next one is adding holes for bench dogs and holdfasts in the workbench, as well as making the bench dogs themselves.
I’m thinking a lot again about first aid kits. I’m putting one together for the workshop. I plan to write about this soon with more detail on what I have in the kit in the car, my backpack, and my workshop.
Seeds are coming along nicely. I’m now fertilizing them and have an oscillating fan on them daily to start the hardening process/prevent them from getting leggy.
We didn’t make much progress on the garden beds this week. The weather turned cold and being sick this weekend put a damper on things. We did line the bottom of the beds with the old plywood from the previous ones, plus some cardboard and sticks. Next step is shoveling in compost and dirt.
I heard back from the fence contractor, so hoping to get that project rolling soon.
I went to a friend’s birthday party on Saturday afternoon at The Vinyl Room in Beacon. Amanda and Charlie were feeling rough and had to stay home, but the cold hadn’t quite hit me yet so I went. Cool place and nice to meet some of their other friends and make new connections, like Ryan who owns an outdoor shop in Tannersville called Camp Catskill.
I bought a FreedomBox a couple months ago to dip my toe into the self-hosting world. I thought setting it up would be a whole thing, so I let it sit in the box. This weekend, since we were all sitting around with a cold, I figured I’d get it out and give it a try.
Setting it up was a lot easier than I expected. I had it up and running with less than an hour of active time (though lots of waiting for booting, updates, etc.) I have it running at https://box.grimmett.co/ and I set up some of the basic services, including a WordPress site.
It still blows my mind that visiting that address accesses a tiny little box currently sitting on the buffet in my living room.
Next step is adding some external storage, picking a more permanent location in my house, and configuring more of the services (for which I need that storage.) Then I need to figure out dynamic DNS in case my IP address changes.
I tried to connect an APFS-formatted drive today, but went down the Debian rabbit hole of having to compile my own drivers. I messed something up and ended up breaking the FreedomBox service. Thank goodness for automatic snapshots. I was able to load a previous snapshot, reboot, and get it back up and running.
Related, I finally got Backblaze back up and running, and while I was going through old drives to see what I could wipe and repurpose, I backed up my various machines and put a recent dump of photos on the photos drive.
I’m really proud that I have accessible photo backups from 16 years ago, which is when I got my first laptop. Anything before that is still on the computer at my parents’ house, and I’ll have to remember to clone that the next time I visit.
I had a nice conversation with Chris Glass over email this week.
I like Chris’s bookmarks and am slowly working on moving my bookmark archive from the past 16 years over to my digital garden.
I like the layout of Chris’s blogroll. The grouping + context is nice.
He inspired me to update my own /now page more regularly.
Jon Elordi started doing week notes! 🎉
Rough week at work. Not much I can say about it.
From last year: https://cagrimmett.com/2023/03/27/week-of-march-20-2023/
Amanda and I were sick then, too. We had strep. We also started seeds that week.
In 2022: https://cagrimmett.com/2022/03/26/week-of-march-21/
We started seeds then, too! And Charlie and I went to the same playground. Fun to see how much he has grown.
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