1. Gaming in person – are you feeling comfortably again doing it?
   Sure .. why not ?
   I do hate crowds (not Krauts 😉 ) more than I used to do, but if there’s plenty of room I don’t feel like I should avoid things.
2. How do you look for new players after you “found” a new game/system?
   I wouldn’t know.
3. Why did the chicken cross the road?
   to get to the other side either in the literal or metaphorical sense 😉

I’ve been listening to the new Rammstein release too. With ‘Angst’, ‘Zick Zack’ and ‘Zeit’ they’ve got at least 3 new great videos and songs. It’s also like they’re one of the few artists left that make proper music videos like they used to do when MTV was all about the music …

ISP decided that I ‘needed’ a new cablemodem, so I’ve been busy trying to get that thing to work like it needs.
Net result at the moment is that my pi-hole isn’t blocking ads and thus I get to ‘enjoy’ seeing the crap again.

never had any problems to be honest

it also shows how often newsletters use tracking links … which is neat as I can skip those

I work on one simple principle : if you annoy me then you’re not worth the trouble. I’ve got better things to do than to fight with websites that abuse trackers and related quircks to gather data. So those dark pattern cookie walls (*) either result in me picking ‘reject all’ or never visiting the site again.

(*) dark pattern : a design that pretends users have a choice, but that makes picking anything other than the desired choice as complicated as possible. The cookie wall dialogs tends to show this by making ‘accept all’ a one click option and anything else is more complex (or not as easily found).

@sundancer when it comes to streaming sites I blame the obsessive DRM ‘protection’.

And based on what I’ve heard I think your computer refusing to display Picard episodes may be for the best 😉

finally sort of recovered from my belly ache I’ve been suffering from since friday.
So yeah … definitely going to be a long week for me starting now. Not because I want to, but because I need to end things for my own health. Don’t worry … I’ll live. It’s others who may have to suffer.

Should give me more time to hobby as it were.

A few formalities left to do and I can go on with my life.
It’s weird, but I do feel like I’ve dropped a burden from my shoulders.

I think I will be doing more hobby while doing research. Maybe spend some time on my project to hone my skills as well ?
One door closes and another opens … or so they say.

Money isn’t *that* big a deal, except that I’d rather keep as much of it as possible because even in a best case scenario I’d be spending 90% of my savings on buying a house with little room for extras like furniture …

My boss and I have also come to an agreement that makes it a bit easier.

I know myself well enough that if I don’t keep a steady rythm I will have lost all track of time in a few weeks (I once almost managed to flip day/night cycle at the end of a two week holiday … ). So I need to be very careful with how I spend my time.

Anyways … the issues resulting from the new router that my ISP forced upon me appear to have been fixed. I am annoyed that I need to run my own DHCP server just to use an alternate DNS server.

oh … and as a bonus their is some sort of construction work going on in the appartment building, so I get all the joy of listening to hammering and drilling during the daytime. Not exactly happy fun time. I honestly don’t know why they’re doing that sort of stuff, but as my appartment is on the list as well I will have to suffer it myself too.