04 April 2023
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Its been a while since my last post, but i have a good excuse! I am
now the father of a nearly two month old son. Its... time
consuming. At least by now my wife and i have somewhat lived in to our
new roles and everything is somewhat back to normal. We even manage to
get a decent amount of sleep per day ;-)

So, what else happened in the last two months? Much more than i could
remember now, but the highlights were that we finally finished our
barn conversion project, visited the inlaws again and it seems we have
broken the cyle: Two times a visit of the inlaws where nobody ended up
in hospital!

Ah, and i started a homelab! Nothing fancy, just a very much
underpowered truenas server and two also underpowered NUCs of dubious
provenience i got for free at work. Why? Now... the idea lurked even
longer in the back of my mind after looking into todays kids shows,
they are... mostly shit for my "kid of the 80s" eyes. So for quiet
some time i had the idea to set up a media server with tons and tons
of kids shows from the 80s and early 90s (here in germany we had a few
really good ones like "Loewenzahn" and "Die Sendung mit der Maus"). I
had already downloaded a few (hundred) episodes and stored on an
external hd, now one of the NUCs is busy downloading tons more. I have
still to find an idea how to set up streaming of these, but perhaps i
just end up with an Raspberry Pi with Kodi. Luckily, i have still a
lot of time befor junior will be interested in watching TV.