“Nach Ampel, Links!”

When they have a coalition government in Germany’s parliament that is made of parties who use the red, yellow, and green colors, it seems to track that the next election ends up going Left, especially to the Die Linke party. Unfortunately, it’s not drawing a lot of support out of the near-Nazi Musk-backed AfD party, but it’s pulling from CDU, which is a center right party. Hopefully it’ll help push the national Overton Window to a more leftist/progressive field in the next few elections.

I love the Berlin transit system. I know I’ve never relied upon it for daily work yet (the longest I stayed was one month), but it’s been so very convenient to get around the city. Normally it’s so easy and quick.

When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It’s not just eating them, it’s cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.

At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.

I’m just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they’re struggling to keep food on their own tables.

I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.

I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.

Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.

Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.