Day 10 in Athens: Prosecco for check in. Comical room key. Lukumades in the afternoon. Yogurt (Gyourtlou) Kebab at O Thanasis for dinner. Faces. Drinks at Baba au Rum.

Day 9 in Naxos. The hotel breakfast was amazing and totally local. Beach was great. As in all of Greece: cats. I tried and succeeded at having dinner at the same place as the prior night. Pictured is a sea bass appetizer, a grouper main, and a chocolate dessert.

Day 8 in Santorini and Naxos. Panoramic view from our balcony. Packing all the water this place gave us because tap water isn’t safe to drink on islands. Waiting for checkout. On the ferry. Exploring Naxos. Found a dog to pet.

Day 7 in Santorini. Our hotel helped us arrange an ATV and we used that to get around all day. First we went to the lighthouse all the way at the bottom of the island

Day 6 In Santorini I took another long walk

Day 5 in Paros and Santorini Disembarking from these ferries is something else. Ride from ferry to our hotel. Beautiful view from our room.

Day 4 in Paros: fruit came with the place. It’s hot so I get Fredo Expresso. We relaxed on the beach 0.1 mile from our place. I went on a long a walk. I walked about 2 miles, then walked 2 miles back…

Day 3 in Athens and Paros: lukumakes are delicious. Custom made shoes from a cobbler are fun. Ferry rides are fun Awesome dinner: fresh caught sea bream and tuna tartare as an appetizer. Both awesome

Yesterday I went sailing with a friend and my wife. Normally she can’t come because someone has to watch our kids but they are visiting grandparents so we took the chance. Literally within minutes of arriving at the boat her iPhone was in the water. It was a joint effort, I put it somewhere stupid (the side of the boat instead of the floor) and she put her jacket (keeping it from sliding off) away first.

On vacation I'm reading The AWK Programming Language and used what I learned to rewrite the tool I made to see when my kid gets on his computer in the morning (it's a thing, he will wake up really early.) The SQLite version takes 16s to chug through about 2 months of (very inefficient) data.

Call before the gumbo. Never forget to deglaze

So the other day @rspier nerdsniped me by sharing how easy it is to flash the firmware of a lot of IoT devices. Stuff like smart bulbs, outlets, etc. I’ve never trusted those things because of security concerns, but open source mostly resolve said concerns. So this was my evening:

OK folks, I’m starting on prep for #MardiGras. The main thing I’m doing today is making roux but I’ll pick back up tomorrow for meat and king cake. Mute #MardiGras if you don’t wanna see food content! Roux is going… #MardiGras

Next Sunday I'm throwing a big Mardi Gras party (sadly can't just ask everyone to take of Tuesday.) Current attendance is 38 people saying yes, 8 people saying maybe, and 10 *families* who have not responded. I will make my gumbo (blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/gumbo-v2/)

I recently switched from Android to iOS and some friends have had questions. I'll attempt to answer them here. First and foremost: why. Fundamentally Google is a company motivated by it's main business: advertisements. This business model motivates all kinds of sub-optimal behavior. You see it in the news, you see it in the canceled-but-beloved apps, you see it in the shoddy ecosystem.

One of my day-to-day programming superpower tools is pup (github.com/ericchiang/pup). Pup let's you easily pick apart html on the commandline. If you are familiar with jq, it's like that, but uses a standard selector language (CSS). Anyway, I thought I might have found a bug and decided to look at the project. It's been reliable for me, but has had no changes in 3 years and no release in 8 years. I figured I'd try my hand and doing a cleanup pass.

Hard king cake in progress (this is half a cup of water plus yeast. wow yeast it's super effective) mixed (but not kneeded) dough

The Plan Workspace prepared. Starting on easy king cake

Starting on Gumbo prep, but the main cook is tomorrow. I was planning on making a fish stock but haven't been able to get the ingredients (fish heads.) Starting roux:

Ok deep breath. I'm getting started. Made colored sugar for king cake. should have bought some ahead of time but this is OK. Also making jam for filling