Wife is out having breakfast with her colleagues. She was a bit
hesitant even yesterday if she should go as we were both sick this
week. She already fell ill on last Sunday, had to throw up and had a
migraine like headache. So I worked from home on Monday looking after
her. She called in sick and called the doc afterwards, but only got an
appointment on Tuesday.
Then Monday night I got sick. I do not know if it could be attributed
to the weather that had been really changeable - or I simply had too
much carbs that day... Anyway I could not sleep till 3 a.m. so I
called in sick, too. I just needed a good rest and my strict diet to
calm my innards and was working again on Thursday.
Last weekend I fired up the old Acer laptop again, did the syspatch
and pkg_add -u rounds. Then I was experimenting with some browsers as
Firefox is no more for i386, Chromium won't start dunno why, Netsurf
is okayish for simple pages, Dillo can be used, but also only for
simple pages. I wanted to visit rust-lang.org which Dillo simply won't
load and Netsurf cannot render legibly.
But I may have found the solution! GNOME Web (codename Epiphany) works
like a charm until now and it can render the Rust pages fine. Of
course it is not super fast on this single core Celeron CPU, but also
not too bad, it is fairly usable even when multiple tabs are open
(which was certainly not true for Chromium back in the days when it
worked). So I'm with GNOME Web and even now am entering these lines on
the Acer running OpenBSD.
On Thursday I went for a walk in my lunch break. There is a lot of
construction work going on in our street on both ends. New houses, new
office buildings and even a school are being built. I'm not
particularly happy about this as even now the street is fairly
crowded, cars parking everywhere. As my brother visited last week I
parked in the parking bay right in front of the house so as to
"reserve" a spot for him. Then I just drove down into the garage when
he arrived.
Now I am waiting for the vacuum cleaner to be fully charged then I
could maybe finish vacuuming till wife arrives.
