Back to work                                                2023-01-05

The end-of-year holidays are already over and it's back to work again.
This holiday season, I managed to get some rest and catch up on sleep
a bit, which was much needed.

Besides snoozing and resting, I spent time working on a few things,
starting with taking care of some important paperwork that were
hanging over my head for a few weeks, which was exactly as "fun" as
you could imagine -- I'm just glad to be done with it.

I also wanted and needed to reinstall GNU/Linux on two of my machines;
Trisquel 11 (Aramo) which is my GNU/Linux distribution of choice, and
Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudo) for work.  On the machine I use for work,
it turns out the /boot partition I'd originally created for Ubuntu was
too small, which would probably cause distribution upgrades to fail if
I were to attempt one, so I needed to do some repartitioning for that
to allocate a larger /boot.  As for the Trisquel installation, it was
Trisquel 10 (Nabia), which I wanted to upgrade to Aramo (11) and also
use a slightly different partition layout for it.  So, repartitioning
and reinstalling both distributions on this machine was the way to go.
On my other [non-work] machine, its Trisquel version was also Nabia,
but with an even clunkier partition layout.  So, I repartitioned it
and installed Aramo on this other machine as well.

With the machines ready to go, I set up my development environment for
Jami[1] again, and prepared and sent two documentation patches [2, 3].
I also worked on a couple of other Jami-related tasks that are still
works in progress, and I hope to have more to say about them soon.
It's been nice working on Jami again; I hadn't gotten a chance to do
so in the weeks leading up to the end-of-year holidays, but I'm hoping
to make up for it in the coming weeks.

At work, the company chat was quieter than usual today, since not all
folks are back from holidays yet.  I caught up with my email backlog
and started getting back into the flow of things, picking up where I'd
left off before the holidays.

Take care, and so long for now.

P.S.  shout out to nm03 and their phlog[4] with 'back to work' posts
from various points in time.

[1] https://jami.net
[2] https://review.jami.net/c/jami-client-qt/+/23515
[3] https://review.jami.net/c/jami-daemon/+/23516
[4] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/nm03/