As part of my work with Automattic, I’m granted a 3 month sabbatical after 5 years and I want to document some of the projects and things that I manage to do.
Well, the sabbatical is drawing to a close. 2 weeks left.
Phase 3 (primarily Christmas)
- Made treats for friends
- Decorated the house (lights outside, garlands inside)
- Spent time with family – didn’t get any surfing done really.
- Many basketball games.
- Updated nef.family site. See this post.
- Christmas!
- New Years!
- Water heater broke. We attempted a repair under the warranty, but the replacement parts didn’t fix the issue. We were sick of not having hot water (we went over a week without it). So, we bought and installed a new one.
Phase 4
I’m currently in phase 4 and I’m trying to get a couple projects done before I return to work so we’ll see what I can accomplish.
- 🛑Working on getting finlaysons.us site working with an autobiography of my great grandfather. (He was an inventor). I ran the printed copy I have through AWS OCR tool and started editing it for correctness. Status: on-hold, waiting for missing pages from my Mom.
- ✅ Had first speaking assignment with my new church calling: 20 minutes of speaking took a few days to write and edit. This was more work than I expected.
- ✅I have a bunch of CD’s that I needed to back up. Bought a new DVD/Blu-ray drive to rip them.
- ✅ Backed up all family pictures to cloud.
- 🛑 Fixing broken kindle: I bought a new screen for the version of Kindle I have (using the information from ifixit). This was incorrect information for the 10th generation kindle paperwhite 4, and the new screen is not the correct replacement. Seems that this kindle is borked. Not sure if I should recycle or try to sell on ebay.
- ✅ Added recipes to family site.
| Stat | Count |
|---|---|
| Books read | 5 (+4) Primarily padding to reach goal of 52 books for the year. |
| Video games played | 5 (+2) Death Stranding/Ghosts of Tsushima |
| Surf trips | 3 (+0) |
| Movies (in theater) | 4 (+2) Sonic 3, Mufasa |