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This Week (2024-09-29)	2024-09-29T22:28:15.866130Z	2024-09-29T22:28:15.866130Z

Here's what I've been up to since the last weekly status...

This was my second week at the new job and I feel like I'm starting to settle in. During the IT Department's weekly meeting, I was told that I have better hair than most of the women in the office. Just wait until they find out I'm pretty good at computers, too! On that note, I do have a small project to work on, and I've scheduled meetings with some development teams this coming week so I can learn how they build things (and how I can build things to help them build things). I'm excited!
I do kind of miss the walking route(s) I had at my old job. There don't seem to be any good routes at the new one, but there are four flights of stairs between the parking lot and my desk. So I've been trying to walk those more to get some physical activity throughout the day.
After last weekend's 40(ish)-mile ride, I took a few light rides to recover. And then got back into a threshold training ride on Thursday that really kicked my butt. I guess I still had some more recovery to do.
I skipped Friday and Saturday due to weather, but went out for a relaxing 22-mile ride this morning and felt great. I was chased (briefly) by a dog that appeared out of nowhere to say hi and I saw a person looking absolutely frickin' ridiculous on an ellptical bike.

I figured out how to trigger a GitHub Actions workflow from another repo.
It turns out that {[]} and {{}} don't mean the same thing in SilverBullet configs.

I deployed an Ubuntu 24.04 VM on my homelab to start playing with podman and specifically Quadlet for managing containers with systemd. It seems pretty neat so far, and I really like the podman approach. I hope to find more time to play with it in the coming weeks.

I'm reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.
We're binging season 4 of Only Murders in the Building, and really enjoying it. But we only have a few episodes left before we catch up with the weekly release schedule and that's going to be a rough adjustment.
We're watching a lot of Drag Race as the episodes are released: Global All Stars, España Season 4, and UK Season 6. We're also really looking forward to the new season of Dragula.
Speaking of delightfully camp and sort of spooky, we also watched Vamps and Lisa Frankenstein.
I've been listening to a playlist I put together to get ready for a 3-day metal festival next weekend. I just grabbed the top four tracks from each performer, and that added up to over twenty hours of music. So I imagine I'll be jamming to that all this week, too. (I just hope this festival goes better than the last one we attended.)