July 2026

It’s now just two more days until I go back to work after a fantastic three-week summer vacation. I want at least three more! Anyway, it’s the end of the month, this is what happened! From the blog since my last recently post: Kaizen #4: Overhauled homelab 🍀 Life Three weeks of vacation is wrapping up, and it must be one of my most productive summers yet. Just before the vacation started, I began working on extending the fence around the house, by drilling huge 30 mm holes into the concrete. It took a while, but I managed to get 15 holes in for the fence posts. 15 holes, 15 steel feet, and the first posts standing. Before we set up the new fence, I started getting rid of all the moss in our grass. Holy hell, in some places in the garden there was 99% moss. It took much longer than I thought, but it was a family effort. Our oldest joined her mum and me raking up the moss from the scarifier way beyond her bedtime. She really enjoyed herself, helping out in warm summer weather. It was…