This week I experienced my first 4 day-work week. I’ve been sub-contracted through another company to work at a client, and the sub-contracting company happens to do 4-day work weeks. As you might expect, it makes a huge quality-of-life difference. I was able to get chores done, spend time with my family, and have time for video games with a friend, who coincidentally, had been put through the ringer at his job and been given the day off, too.

This won’t be my normal, as the client will wrap up in October, but just having the insight into the different having Friday off has gotten me thinking.

Beyond that, the week was packed to the walls. We enjoyed a 7km walk around Toronto, enjoying the lake for the first time this summer. It was lovely to sit and watch the rowers go back and forth and enjoy the breeze coming off the water.

I started doing some creative writing in the last few minutes of the day, but by then my battery is so drained I can hardly get out more than a few sentences.

I got really interested in miniPC’s this week and am looking at getting a Beelink SER8. Originally, I had been setting aside some money for a mac-mini to work as a home-server for family photos and other self-hosting. But now, I’m thinking I will try something different, and dig into using Linux. Since this is a home server after all, being able to upgrade the space (not to mention the machine comes with 1TB of data, compared to the Mac-mini’s puny 256gb) is valuable.