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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

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It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

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Something humourous that happened to you
Something frustrating that happened to you
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A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
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So how’s it going?

8 points

Stuck in interviews all week. Trying to find somebody to help with my project. Is a full time job right now. In other news, we are buying a boat and planning on living on it. All the inspections have been organised this week so we are one step closer and I’m really excited!

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Wow, that’s awesome. Anywhere in particular you want to sail to, or will it be a park up in a marina kind of thing?

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We are buying the boat along the east coast of America so we are going to hopefully start by exploring the north of the east coast/Canada and then head down to the Caribbean for Christmas. After that, who knows. Fun fact: she was a marker boat for the Americas cup in NZ so she can certainly get us back home if we muster up the confidence!

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That’s so cool! Keep us updated with your travels, if you’d be up for that - I’m sure a lot of us here would find it really interesting.

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That’s so cool, like a sailboat/yacht? I love the idea of getting a liveaboard boat and doing something wild like sailing across the Pacific in it.

I say this as someone with exactly zero sailing experience, but the idea going such a huge distance using mostly the wind would be such an adventure.

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6 points

Thanks! Yes a sailboat. We’ve been getting ready for this for quite a while. Took a bunch of courses and bought a starter boat that we would go away for a few months at a time in to see if it was really something we could do and to make sure the dog could handle it. We did that for a few years and learnt what we wanted from a full time boat. I hope the inspection goes well. Can’t wait to finally start the big adventure! It will probably be quite a while until we feel experienced enough to cross oceans but I’m just excited to spend more time on the water!

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8 points

I finally did it! I got around to getting a COVID jab and so am now ready for the winter, when my body will teach me there are plenty of other ways to get sick.

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Was going to get mine this week too, but then I got sick (just a cold I think). So it’ll have to wait for a bit longer. Heaps of bugs going around at the moment.

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I have had a couple of colds over the last couple of months. It’s just endless when you’ve got kids bringing home bugs. I’ve luckily been healthy enough to get this jab, and got my flu one a month back between colds.

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How many Covid jabs have you had? I’ve had 6 and I see there’s a 7’th available now

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5 points

So my DIY soldering job over the weekend seems to have worked and I successfully fixed my fan! Getting some thinner solder made it much easier.

Now to find more things to solder 😃

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4 points

Glad to see you got the fan working. Well done 👍

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3 points

Amazing! You’re pretty much a super hero now.

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Guess I’ll need to come up with my superhero name now!

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3 points

Your username works as a superhero name!

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WFH problems

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4 points

Omg I love calico cats!! What a cute problem to have.

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Oh man the other weekend we stayed at my in-laws and the cat kept sitting on my laptop. I knew it was a meme but it’s less cute and more annoying in real life.

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I’ve noticed that Lemmy 0.19.4 has been released. Looks like quite a few changes! I won’t be in a rush to update, but will start the process of testing on a test server and watching chatter from other instances to see if there are any issues.

It looks like there will be a bit of downtime with this release. Once I have a good idea of the process and time needed I will schedule a time and date to do the upgrade.

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