I turned 50 in February. Two months later, I’m still confused by this. Was still recovering from COVID.

Hardware hacking

• Started work on a birdhouse camera with my father-in-law. He built the birdhouse in December; this month we finally started working on putting together the camera part. There are two in here: an infrared camera and an endoscope for visual light. I put together a little circuit board with 6 500mW IR LEDs to act as illumination.

Home sysadmin

• My little home machine is a Zotac ZBOX CI320 nano purchased in 2015. It’s great – small, unobtrusive, passively cooled and enough for everything I need…except that the 4GB of memory it has, which felt so decadent, is starting to be a constraint. I blame InfluxDB. Anyhow, ordered some more RAM only to realize I’d ordered the wrong size. Made up for it by adding a swap file. Ask your parents, kids.

Climate emergency

• Met with my MLA, Judy Darcy, again about climate change; she got us some time with MLA George Heyman, BC’s Minister of the Environment as well. I’m grateful to both for their time.