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Cyprus is forever in my heart!

Just returned from Cyprus. It was... how many times have I been to Cyprus? Like 100 times? Wow! It feels like visiting grandma (or grandpa in the case of Valera) at her village house. And it is still wonderful. I can see how the city is changing - new cozy places, new bus routes. This year there has been plenty of rain on the island. So I'm glad for the Cypriot people. Finally, it is legal to wash a car. Surprisingly, it was colder there than in Serbia last week. Unfortunately, I couldn't try my new snorkeling mask and swimming fins—the water was too cold for that. It is worth visiting Cyprus in the fall. Nice place. A lot of tasty food and cheap, good beer. Evenings with Valera in the living room with pizza and a mug of beer. I miss it already. But the best time in Serbia has started. It's time to be delighted by the Balkan summer.

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Спасибо любимой жене, закрыл гештальт по поездке в Прагу. Ещё одна (четвёртая) пивная столица Европы - checked!  Первая была Берлин, вторая - Брюссель, третья - Вена. Кто-то может спросит, чем же Вена заслужила этот статус? Отвечу: вообще-то, Жигулёвское пиво до коммунизации было Венское! А дать начало национальному брэнду СССР, это, я считаю, заслуга, достойная быть отмеченой. Да, пивная культура в Вене не так коммерциализированна, как в Берлине, Брюсселе и Праге. А всё же.  Так вот, Прага! Ради нее я отступил от своего пути по сокращению потребления алкоголя и отдался во власть Старопрамена! Ну и прочих марок и сортов.  В первый же вечер мы узнали про чешские "градусы" - 10, 11, 12. В последствии добавилось ещё 8. Это не содержимое алкоголя, а экстрактивность(плотность) начального сусла. Традиционная крепость соотносится так:  8 = 3 объемным долями;  10 = 4; 11= 4,3-4,5 12 = 5. То есть на экспорт идёт в основном 12. Хотя я предпочел бы в моем возрасте 10 или 8...

Самые-самые итоги года

Самая дорогая покупка: машина. Вообще я начал проще относиться к деньгам, купил Насте новый макбук эйр в максимальной комплектации, новый айфон (правда, по её просьбе, 16e), себе купил Samsung S24 Ultra. Не то чтобы моя тревожность в отношении денег окончательно отступила, но теперь это не так меня заботит.  Самая дорогая поездка: Барселона. Купил билеты по скидке в ВизЭйре, но не посмотрел цены на жилье перед этим. В итоге снимали задрипанную холодную хату с муравьями за 1000 евро. Но поездка нам понравилась. Долгожданный переезд. Не смотря на то, что я был разочарован прибавкой зп - 10% вместо 20, - я решил, что теперь мы можем позволить себе переехать в квартиру получше в более спокойном и тихом районе. Квартира и правда получше, но район не такой тихий. Прямо под окнами оживленная улица с тупыми утырками на громких рыдванах. Теперь я сплю исключительно в берушах. Кстати, теперь я стараюсь сделать мой сон лучше. Как? Эксперименты с бокалом вина, с температурой в комнате. Думаю, ...

The "Big Three"

The first thing I want to mention is my travel experience: we visited Austria, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Cyprus, and Bulgaria. I spent almost three months abroad in Serbia, and three years abroad in Russia. My second accomplishment is our move from Vukov Spomenik, one of the central districts, to the periphery—Filmski Grad. Here, the view and the winter air are better, and we are now living near a huge park. The flat itself is warmer and better equipped than the previous one. Now we have a dishwasher and a dryer, as well as a better fridge, a kitchen stove, and so on. And the third one is that I started going to the gym. It was a very long road to this decision. It was necessary to change my mindset first. Now I have a program, a schedule, and a goal: to reach 80kg without overeating.

The End of the summer in Serbia / Kraj leta u Srbiji

Corrected: Summer in Serbia starts on the 20th of June and ends on the 20th of September. That’s why today it is +31 degrees Celsius (+87.8 Fahrenheit). Real heat, but it still feels like something already floats in the air. Something depressing. I probably hate the cold, dark, nasty, and gray winter here in Serbia, with all of this polluted air. This summer was good but also depressing. We visited Vienna, visited Budapest twice, visited friends, and bought a car. I believe I found a new friend. We also spent so much money on the car, on maintaining the car, and on traveling. My beloved sort of coffee, Yirgacheffe, suddenly appeared in Gradska Pržionica. I started bodybuilding here in our new basement. I like the results so far. I’ve found better sleep here. Rarely did the sleep estimation drop below 80 points (out of 100). Almost like in Cyprus. I am attracted to Cyprus. No, seriously! I have fallen in love with the island, mostly because of the weather and warmth, but also because o...

My 2024

Achivment of the year: I became a scram-master in my team.  My team lead David offered my an apportunity to establish scram ceremonies in our project and I sucessfully implemented this. For this porpes I completed two courses on Udemy.  Also I got an A1 level in Serbian. And I lost weight from 76 to 70.  Continue of the year:  I continued to reduse consumption of coffe, salt and alchohol.  I'm continue to study English. For this poupose I bought an app from polyglot. Whole year I had been doing HIIT and taking cold (and sometimes chill) shower.  Surprise of the year: taxes for vesting. It was sudden and totally unpredictable for me and my collegues - some of them wanted to cell some shares but not me - I personally don't want to cell shares since I have enough money from my salary. Now we all need to cell something to pay taxes for vesting.  Trip of the year: It was Austria. I literally started to look forward to the opportunity to move to Aust...

Rancer Desktop 1.15.0 issue

  Today, I encountered an issue after updating Rancher Desktop from version 1.12.x to 1.15.0 on my Apple Silicon M1 (Sonoma 14.5). The error message was as follows: Error:  /Applications/Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl.ventura exited with code 1 Logs:  stdout: '', stderr: '/usr/bin/scp: write remote "/tmp/rd-lima-guestagent-cLKIYBm6wcHE.lima-guestagent": Failure\r\n' + '/usr/bin/scp: failed to upload file /var/folders/rj/_3qwsv5d27z8q18mx7w711yh0000gn/T/rd-lima-guestagent-cLKIYBm6wcHE/lima-guestagent to /tmp/rd-lima-guestagent-cLKIYBm6wcHE.lima-guestagent\r\n', code: 1, [Symbol(child-process.command)]: '/Applications/Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl.ventura copy /var/folders/rj/_3qwsv5d27z8q18mx7w711yh0000gn/T/rd-lima-guestagent-cLKIYBm6wcHE/lima-guestagent 0:/tmp/rd-lima-guestagent-cLKIYBm6wcHE.lima-guestagent' } 2024-08-07T15:18:09.229Z: > /Applications/Ra...