The Positivity Thread aka "Today was a great day because....."

Today I was able to walk to the grocery store, after being locked in the apartment for three days, and having to rely on other people to bring me food and medication. I hope to be more-or-less recovered by tomorrow, so I can go on normal everyday errands.
 
And today was a great day because I finally set up my parents' old PC as my file server. I also started freeing up disk space on my laptop, I will continue doing so with my desktop during the evening and night, in order finally have space for uni projects.

It wasn't even that hard of a project, really! After fiddling with the hardware for about three weeks (mostly because I broke feet off a stock LGA 775 cooler and had to wait for the replacement parts from China), the software installation, including downloading TrueNAS Core and burning it to a USB drive, didn't take more than two hours. 10TB of ZFS in RAID-Z2 (4x6TB drives) should be plenty of space going into the future, too.
 
An acquaintence of mine sent a message asking if I was free next Saturday night, as she has a spare ticket to Halestorm in Sydney, and offered it to me. She's writing a review of the show, and got a couple of freebies.
Should be good to get out of the house and do something fun for a night.
 
ATM froze, but luckily I was inside the bank, and only took a couple of minutes to get my card back.

When it was rebooting, noted it had an i5 4750 (2013).
 
jack_christie said:
ATM froze, but luckily I was inside the bank, and only took a couple of minutes to get my card back.

When it was rebooting, noted it had an i5 4750 (2013).
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Honestly, I'm shocked it needed a processor that "powerful"
 
jack_christie said:
ATM froze, but luckily I was inside the bank, and only took a couple of minutes to get my card back.

When it was rebooting, noted it had an i5 4750 (2013).
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That's basically as new as it gets. There's a few of the latest machines that run maybe a 7th gen i3 or i5, but 4th gen is still quite new in that realm.
 
My work is changing and I like it. The human blood stem cells I transport are for and/or from patients with diseases including leukaemia and sickle cell disease. Over the past couple of years, we've had an increase in transports for research, rather than transplants from donor to patient. The information I had led me to believe that the research in question was into gene editing. And my upcoming transport to one of the facilities involved in this research looks like it's cells from an actual patient, which are due to be genetically modified ("fixed", as it were) and then transplanted back into the patient.

This means that, if successful, many patients will no longer have to die because no matching stem cell donor is found. Instead, their own cells can be collected, edited, transplanted back and hopefully cure them. And it also means that we couriers get a lot more work: more people than before can receive treatment and the cells will need to be carried two ways instead of one.
 
I felt productive for once in a long while.

Chimney sweep guy comes - hardly does anything but eh

Send info to SCHUFA so I can hopefully get a better apartment - read, look more reliable to new landlords.

Send a notice to AldiTalk to release my cell number to my new provider

Updated my residency status today with new job

Have car serviced and mechanic says oil is nice and clear despite the noise upon start up, added a supplement to the oil to possibly quiet the engine down.

Got a new phone and better cellphone plan with more data.
 
calvinhobbes said:
And my upcoming transport to one of the facilities involved in this research looks like it's cells from an actual patient, which are due to be genetically modified ("fixed", as it were) and then transplanted back into the patient.
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The doctor at the hospital where I picked up confirmed. The cells were for a clinical trial and from the first patient in the country in question to receive treatment by gene editing. Fingers crossed that it will help them!

Also, my flight home after the delivery was cancelled due to Lufthansa's big IT problem. I decided to jump at an opportunity to get home with a different airline and that turned out to be a great decision: LH rebooked me on a flight today at six in the morning and that one is delayed until at least half past twelve. :mrgreen:
 
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A bit late on this, but I got married on Sunday. So good day there, yeah.
 
More yesterday and the Saturday before that then today, but after 5years of owning and driving it it seems I'm finally starting to appreciate the family car (VW Caddy 1.4 TSI) for more than just its ability to transport people and stuff.
Took it to the mountains for the second time in a year (Swiss alps last summer and French alps last week) this time fully loaded (3 adults, 4 children, roof box and skis + gear for 6 people) cruise control at 140km/h and as long as I remember it's not a diesel and let it rev a little higher I actually enjoyed the drive. I'll never like the effect a roof box has on a car, but it does so with every car.
With its 125hp, leaf sprung rear and basically being a van with an MPV interior it will never be a great/luxury/sporty touring car, but the advantage of it being a van is that it actually drives better when loaded than empty.
Only thing that still annoys me (coming from daily driving diesels) is that engine braking downhill has pretty much no effect.
 
kalf said:
Took it to the mountains for the second time in a year (Swiss alps last summer and French alps last week) this time fully loaded (3 adults, 4 children, roof box and skis + gear for 6 people)
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Are you secretly Dutch? 😁
 
93Flareside said:
Are you secretly Dutch? 😁
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The border is only a 15min drive, so it's close :LOL: .
If I can leave it at home I will 'cause I really don't like how it affects the handling + the added height. Some "télépéage" booths have a 2m height restriction, almost forgot that a VW Caddy + roof box is roughly 2,4m high could have gone bad.
But on skiing trips it's either the roof box or two cars since we take our own skis with us and my wife hates driving for longer than 1 hour. Or when we take the dogs with us there isn't enough room left for luggage either.
On the other hand I was far from the only one with a roof box making the trip to or from the alps.
 
kalf said:
The border is only a 15min drive, so it's close :LOL: .
If I can leave it at home I will 'cause I really don't like how it affects the handling + the added height. Some "télépéage" booths have a 2m height restriction, almost forgot that a VW Caddy + roof box is roughly 2,4m high could have gone bad.
But on skiing trips it's either the roof box or two cars since we take our own skis with us and my wife hates driving for longer than 1 hour. Or when we take the dogs with us there isn't enough room left for luggage either.
On the other hand I was far from the only one with a roof box making the trip to or from the alps.
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Yeah, I see a lot of Dutch cars along the German A5 as I’m 45 or so minutes from the Swiss boarder. :D
 
The VW Caddy drives a lot better than they have any right to, with that rear axle that looks like 1940's farming machinery. I've put several thousand kilometers on several of them.

The SDI is easy to drive because there's never any doubt as to how much throttle you need. The answer is ALL of it, always. You can treat the throttle pedal like an on/off switch.
 
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