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Great progress in the barn
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Nice sunrise pictures

This was the week of early sunrises and afternoon sunsets.

Monday 3 November

Today I worked from home, and DW went to the office.

I received a question today about whether I would like to play DJ sets for free at a social workshop bakery called the Care Bakery. I will go there on Friday for a meeting to figure out the requirements.

The vacuum cleaner we ordered yesterday arrived. I never believed that things would arrive the day after when promised like that in a webshop, but this time it really did! Here is the new family member!

In the evening, I worked on the X debug. It surprised me how complex it can be. The server needs to connect to my development machine at home. Yesterday, I figured out that the server's firewall did not even allow outgoing traffic on the port. It's always a question of what kind of vulnerabilities am I opening up for? What am I worried about? I just had a server without a firewall for 9 years.

Tuesday 4 November

Good morning. It had been an OK day for biking to work, but today I am driving because I'm taking the car to the garage. I no longer heard the sounds, which was confusing.

I arrived at the garage and handed the car over to the mechanic. Now I'm walking to work. I almost forgot that one bridge is closed, but I corrected my direction just in time.

I got over the canal at the functional bridge, and it's beautiful there. I took a photo. Now the weather is overcast, but had there been sun, the photo would have been epic. I didn't bring my DSLR today. That was a pity because two crows were bathing funnily in a puddle on the roof of a building we can see from our office.

During lunch, I told colleagues about the sea container and that selling it isn't going as quickly as expected. I said I had an idea to buy a pressure washer, clean the sea container, and take new photos of it. One of my colleagues had a pressure washer she wanted to get rid of.

The garage found no issues. Oh well, if it comes back, they will hear from me again. I went to the city to buy demineralized water for the fog machine. It has to be run through demineralized water to flush out the fogging if the machine hasn't been used for a long time. In the evening, I went to my colleague's place and picked up the pressure washer.

Wednesday 5 November

This morning, another sunrise emerged over the horizon.

Today I worked from home in the morning. After lunch, we went to the factory where they build Murphy beds. When we came home, I cleared out the path beside the bed where we had cucumbers this year and will have potatoes next year.

I've worked on the sign-up and login pages for the lyrics editor this evening, but it hasn't been going smoothly. I've seen hundreds, literally thousands, of sign-in and login pages in my life, and I've never really thought about how to do it without confusing people. The general idea is that people can use the app without signing up or logging in, but when logged in, they will have access to more features. I'd better look at how others are doing it again before creating my own confusion.

Thursday 6 November

It is a beautiful morning in early November, and I'm biking to work. It is Thursday, and I have been lousy at blogging this week. There have been interesting things every day this week, but I haven't taken the time to sit down and write about them. Ohh, I had those weeks before, which generally means I have to pick up the blog later in the week. But blogging later is not the same thing. When you are capturing feelings, it is better to write about them when you experienced them, not a couple of days later.

There were professional German fishermen at the canal this morning.

I'm biking next to a ship moving through the canal. When I was just about to say that blogging later in the week isn't the same thing, I had to stop, pick up my camera, and take a photo of the ship. I had a couple of seconds at my disposal. Photography is hard to reproduce if you miss the right moment with the camera. The boat in the canal had the name 'Adventure' in Dutch. It weighed 730 thousand kilos, which is about the same as a cube of gold with a side of 3.7 meters would weigh, or about 456 Skoda Octavia cars that you can park in a square measuring 145 meters on a side, so that you know.

Do you recall the field where they grew onions, followed by mustard seeds? The mustard has been cut. Then I passed a man with a purple beard. Unusual.

In the afternoon, I took a photo of the sunset sky from the office.

It's 5:50 PM, and I'm on my way home. It's pitch dark. Well, it's not pitch dark everywhere under the street lamps, but there are no street lamps in the forest. I will bike the regular way along the long water canal there, and then bike into the forest. But I got a pretty good lamp, so I'm fine.

A lady was taking a photo of the moon at the bridge that I passed. I did not feel like stopping to take a photo next to her either. So I missed that photo. I am lit up by traffic, but in a moment, I will be in the forest on my own in the complete dark. At the long water canal, I stopped and tried to reproduce the photo I missed taking at the beginning of my bike tour, but I got too much blur. I will select the best photo and publish it because that is what I have.

Obviously, I should have had a tripod with me, but there are limits to what I am willing to carry around in my bags.

The professional German fishermen were still in their tent at the canal.

It would be nice if Microsoft Word had a dark mode that would work much better for blogging in the pitch dark. When I came home, I found that it has a dark mode!

I heard animals several times in the forest, and that's the moment when the animals are freer in their own forest.

It feels much better this time biking through the forest in the dark. My eyes got used to the dusk, and I took the road along the farms, which are much broader and feel better in the dark. Last winter, I decided not to bike anymore, but this time around, I could do this a little more often. I could mount an extra bike lamp on the bike, in any case. There is room for another lamp.

Friday 7 November

Today it was absolutely marvellous weather! It was windstill, sunny, and beautiful. DW worked from home, and I had a day off. Not that I would be sitting still for any long moment.

I started the day by arranging a new grazing area for the sheep. They are now grazing on the northeast side of the property between the neighbours. The previous field was the northwest field inside the dyke. Let's stretch the grazing season another week on the new patch. Then it is about time to start feeding the sheep with hay. The sheep were enthusiastic about the new area.

When the sheep were done, the electrician, Mr Radi, the superman arrived. He was confident that we would solve the mystery with the heating panels. It turned out to be more complex than he thought. We had to drag new and more cables to make the connection possible. We had to remove gypsum boards in the roof to get access to the pipes.

It was hard work. We dragged four cables through a pipe meant for three. It was so hard work. When we could no longer drag the cable, we unmounted the gypsum ceiling board to access the pipes, and there we could unclog the kinks and let the new cable continue. Two gypsum boards had to be unmounted, but then we had the cables to deal with. Mr Radi, the superman, connected the heating panels and they became nicely warm. He got the lamp on the street side working again. Now, when passing the barn, the light turns on —if it is on, that is. The motion detection is triggering the lamp. I can turn off the lamp, too.

Mr Radi had an appointment elsewhere, so he could not finish all the little details today. I had an appointment at the Care Bakery. It is called so, but in Dutch. At the Care Bakery, they want to arrange a disco now and then. For this, they were looking for a DJ. I had an interview at the Care Bakery. It all went fine, and I was hired. Not that I will get paid or anything, but I will have a chance to play DJ sets for the care receivers at the bakery. I do hope they are dancing. I want to play music for people who enjoy it and are showing it. It is the first time I am trying out the smoke machine. It will be grand.

When I came home from the Care Bakery, I wanted to try out the pressure washer. The first object I wanted to try it on was a yellow carpet we had had for over fifteen years. It might be twenty years. It got dirty and was put in a box because it was too big to wash in our regular washing machine, and it would be too expensive to take to a washing service. Now I washed it with the pressure washer. Some stains did not go away, but in general, it looked much better.

I also tried to wash the sea container. It was a wet exercise! But it worked very well. I washed almost half of one long side. It looked so much better when it was cleaned! I will continue cleaning the container tomorrow.

I had no energy in the evening to work on the login and sign-up functionality for lyrics-editor.com, though I found a page showing different page designs. The rest of the evening, I sat scrolling feeds. Rather useless, actually.

Saturday 8 November

This morning, it was a heavy mist. The forecast says it will be sunny a couple of times today, with the rest of the day overcast.

I had another look at the sign-up page examples on Justinmind.com and found one straightforward example. On this page, at the fitness clothing app store, it was called "sign-in" and "sign-up." I like that because it makes the two words more equal. The header is "Sign-in," followed by "Email" and "Password," each with an input field below. Below the password field is a link saying "Forgot password?" At the bottom, a link labeled "Sign-up" and a round button with a forward arrow. This is too minimalistic for me. I want a button labeled "Sign-in." For the rest, I am all in on this approach. It means the user gets a totally different page for the sign-up or forgotten password. That makes it simpler. I will work on this tonight.

We had breakfast with a smoothie as we usually do. I added our own raspberries to the smoothie to make it more festive for the weekend. After breakfast, I continued with cleaning the sea container. At 12 PM, Mr. Radi arrived. He decided to finish the barn activities today.

I cleaned the east and south sides of the container. The west side faces the driveway, and there, Mr. Radi had his white bus. It was clean, and I did not want to cover it with tiny bits of debris from the sea container. DW filled up another path in the garden with cardboard and wood snippets.

The weather was better than the forecast. It was warm, sunny, and epic autumn weather. Had it not been for the shiny white van of Mr. Radi, I would have finished washing the sea container. But not today. Instead, I hung a hook in the restroom of the barn, and I mounted a lamp above the sink in the workshop in the house.

Mr Radi finished all connections in the barn. There is more to do under the canopy when the sink is finished, but I have no idea when that will happen. He put silicone kit around the edges of the tiling work in the restroom of the barn, and in the kitchen in the house. The heating in the barn has a thermostat that we can mount somewhere clever—no idea where.

The 400-volt outlet was turned around. It points upwards now, instead of downwards. This way, I can have a table top below the outlet. The house has 25-amp three-phase power. The barn is fed with 6 mm² cable with a maximum amperage of 35 amperes. In the house, both the tiny house and the barn are connected to a breaker rated at 40 amperes. We have one group vacant in the barn for a future e-car. The cable for it hangs out from the wall of the barn. The breaker is already installed. We shouldn't be buying an e-car anytime soon, but we've done the preparations for electricity.

The activities from here on will be to clean up the mess in the barn. Mount the last couple of gypsum boards and remove any leftover materials we do not need or want to keep. I really would like to sell the sea container, so I will continue cleaning it and taking new photos.

After Mr Radi left, we had a really late lunch. It was more like an early dinner. I had totally forgotten about the lunch. This was a four-clock tea in a way. After the tea, we had a short walk in the area. Further along our road, we came across a really friendly cat. He followed us for a long while until we reached the end of his territory.

We met up with neighbors. They are prepping their building project for the arrival of windows. Right now, their house has openings where the windows will be mounted. We had that stage of our building process for just a couple of weeks. They had it much longer, but on the other hand, they are doing things on their own. We had a builder who delivered the house on a truck, like the barn was delivered.

In the evening, I worked on the sign-in and sign-up dialogs of the lyrics editor. There will also be a dialog for forgotten password. It feels better to have this functionality aligned with how others are doing it. People spent a lot of time making it logical, and it feels logical when I see it. I tried to make the dialogs appear slowly, but that is for another day.

Sunday 9 November

In the morning, I continued to clean the sea container. I got almost halfway through the west side of the container. Then it was time to collect all the tools.