Getting back into the routine of things. Eldest is back in school and the youngest started reception. Both did incredibly well and fortunately there were no dramas!

I dusted out the PS4 for the first time in a long time and had to reset it as it wouldn't connect to the PSN. Been enjoying playing Sack Boy with the kids, but I'm hoping to play some GTA V and Just Cause 3 if I ever get some time where I have the energy!

3d printer is almost complete. Spent weeks on/off setting it up, measuring, lubricating, re-measuring, searching for lost pieces, calibrating, re-lubricating. It's getting to the point where I might now even be able to start actually attaching computer hardware to it.

Started also making my own local LLM as work forced copilot on us. I resisted using it for anything other than code completion, since coding is my bread and butter, but after running late on a slew of deadlines I thought I would just try it out, and... wow yeah, I was impressed and my job suddenly became way less stressful ^[read: the inertia of jumping from one task to another, and getting up to speed on a project is now gone - I'm flying (until I'm replaced...)].

Using copilot at work makes sense, since it's all corporate nonsense, but I dont want to use it on my home projects, so I'm putting together my own tiny LLM rig based on a Jeff Geerling post

For me spare time on home renovations and playing around with further getting away from big tech

I needed to abroad travel for work whole week and didn’t get home until late Friday night. On a plane again 7 am Monday morning. Sigh.

Usual hecticness doing 5 days work in a 4 day week due to last Monday's Bank Hol, but, Bon Jovi tonight, so that'll help work off some pent up stress...