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Wife was home with me for the week, nice to have company while I work. Finally set her up with my old laptop, hers was getting a bit long in the tooth - and now we're officially a Windows-free house. Some issues getting Anki to run properly on Mint, but it was a learning experience. Have also been getting games figured out in Linux recently. Trying to do PS4 and XBox 360 emulation, that's a work in progress. Finally did sort out how to get a few other games running well though. Nice to have Shadow of Mordor and Mad Max working again, but the real excitement has been Mina the Hollower.

Showed my kid Princess Mononoke, hadn't seen it in decades. I'd forgotten a lot of it, so well worth the time.

I got to have medicinal pizza this week because of the ridiculous heat. By Friday I woke up feeling a little shaky and wobbly. Eventually I worked out I was probably salt deficient given all the sweating I'd done this week so pizza was had and I felt much better afterwards, I didn't even wake up feeling thirsty so I definitely needed the salt. Not something I've ever really had to worry about before now.

This weekend has been really good, especially today with the cooler weather. Good dog walks early morning and plenty of video games.

Man, working from home is great and all until you need the aircon...

31°C in there... and a deskfan does not cool a small room.

No breeze until Friday...

But, apart from that, it was all good thanks... even got the shed painted over the weekend. It'll survive another rainy winter.

And what about the blackn1ght household? All good?

Wife and I had a brilliant long weekend in Belfast. Def Leppard and Extreme on Friday at Belsonic, and live blues rock performances all around the city centre throughout the weekend. We visited the Titanic museum, which was very interesting, and sampled a good few pubs too.

How was your week?

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