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Here's what I'm up to at the moment:

I'm spending a couple of weeks in Berlin, working from home around a long weekend that I spent out in the countryside with a group of school friends. I enjoyed the admittedly lengthy train journey, which also gave me an opportunity to visit my nephews on the way.

I finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico. It's a short novel about a millennial couple from somewhere vaguely mediterranean who move to Berlin in search of an identity and an authentic, interesting life. I was very impressed by how realistic and relatable everything was, and I thoroughly enjoyed the equally mocking and self-deprecating tone, and just the sense of humour in general.

In the kitchen, I've been trying to reverse engineer some recipes for dishes I had at restaurants—most recently a sort of salad made from yuba (often called "beancurd skin" in English), coriander and sezchuan peppercorns.

At work I got certified as an Endpoint Admin Associate with Microsoft's MD-102 exam, so now I'm returning to improving my networking knowledge with a view to getting the next cert.

In my homelab, I've provisioned a second Proxmox node, and I'm hoping to explore distributed storage and ZFS. First though, I have a mountain of tidy up tasks on my repository which I really should get to first.