Amazing weekend, totally fantastic, wish it didn't have to end. 

    Friday was a half day at work and I got to spend the half working on stuff i actually like. Tedious, individual, and slow paced, no pressure. Just do it right and get it right and test it to make sure you didn't break anything type stuff. I was replacing a switch and then moving all of the connections to be a little more efficient than they were initially. That involved moving each cable one at a time, marking which port they came from, which port they were moved to, and what vlan that port was assigned to. It doesn't seem like it would be that complicated but the process just took forever. 

    After that we went to a fish sandwich festival, which was honestly a little underwhelming but still fun. We had out sandos and fries (the fries were awesome) and then drove around and looked at stuff. We found a thrift store/laundromat, which was an odd combination but she found some stuff she liked there, so we won.  

    The part I think i'd rather revisit ad do again are the beaches we found. There were quite a few cute little county beaches that were there and available and empty for anyone to use. We didnt have any beach chairs (I've since rectified that) so e wandered about on the strip and picked up rocks and driftwood and the like. I'm excited to go back with the beach chairs and the umbrella and a cooler and some jams and chill time. I'm super into just sitting there on the beach, i love that, or laying on a blanket on the sand and just letting myself soak it up. The sound of beaches when no one else is around is just fantastical. 

    The rest of the weekend was nice and calm. Sunday we did a lot of cleaning, and by we i mean i did a lot of cleaning. I needed to find the small USB capture card i used to use for the VCR before i got the switcher. I knew it was here someplace and just couldnt find the damn thing. Mrs Potato was missing some boxes of decorations and either could have been in two places, and both needed cleaned real bad. So I cleaned out and organized the under-the-stairs closet, and the server bathroom. Yes, you read that correctly, the server bathroom. 

    To explain, we've got an unfinished bathroom where Mr Gus has his litter box and without much else to use that room for I stuck our server cabinet and IDF switches in there. It's in a cabinet and doesnt get gunked up by dust and hair luckily, because i clean that hallway and room once a week, but also its quieter. The server and large POE switch used to be in my closet, and during the summer (or what i like to call "jet engine season" the server fans run 100% non stop until it's cooler outside. So like three months a year it's loud, and during the winter its actually really nice to have in my closet, because it warms up the whole room, but in the summer thats terrible too. So it has a new home down here where i can close the door and let the heat get sucked out of the room. 

    This coming weekend I think we'll do some beaches and picnics and chill time. It'll only cost me gas and if we pack lunch it'll save us buying anything and Mrs Potato will be happier since we wont be eating crap food. 

 I think next weekend will be a good one too. I've gotta get some fire wood so we can do the garbo wake and bake stream and see how that works out.