# Adventus codicis

After a very long hiatus, it's time to update the phlog a bit. In the
last months I had to take care of my wife as she had surgery early
September.
So apart from doing all the household chores, taking her to see the
docs and working, nothing really happened.

Gladly I have only one single workday left in this year - and that's
going to be tomorrow. After that I have almost 3 weeks off. I am tired
enough, so it's about time to have some free time again.
It has been a lot easier lately as wife can move around on her own
again and does not need to be transported everywhere.

I wanted to do the Advent of Code challenges every day, which I also
did - at least in the first week. This week work has been a bit more
demanding, so I fell behind.
I mostly used TypeScript running on Deno and Rust occasionally. I even
thought that it would be great to pick up Swift again, but I am much
faster in TypeScript, so I dropped the idea and used my limited free
time to quickly implement the solutions in TypeScript where I do not
have to look up every single API call or language construct I need.

We had some snow here in Nuremberg a couple of weeks ago, but Munich
has been hit hard. Trains and the airport were heavily affected by the
snow and they closed the airport for two days I think.

I somehow managed to catch COVID and had high fever for almost an
entire week, the cough and runny nose haunted me for two weeks after
that. Fortunately I can work from home whenever I want to.
Tomorrow I'll drop into the office again to see some folks before
everyone is headed to the Christmas vacation.