extra Missam

Our pastor is heading out of town for a few weeks on some well-earned vacation and has asked me to lead communion services in place of the daily masses. I don’t think I’ve ever actually been to a communion service before. Maybe once years ago; I honestly can’t recall. I had the ritual book in English, picked up a copy in Spanish, and have been studying them for a bit. It looks pretty straightforward, which is good, since the both of us are Strictly-By-The-Book types. I also went last night to watch him do Exposition so I could get a sense of any local customs and…they weren’t any. Also very strictly by the numbers, which is how I intend to do it as well.

Nerdwatch: the ancient laptop that I was using for Home Assistant finally croaked for good, so I purchased one of their turnkey ODroid boxes and it’s been working great. Because I am lazy, I wasn’t bothering to back up the old config so I had to start from scratch. I’m a little bummed at losing all of the historical data, but whatever. Much of the old config was busted and things needed a good clean-out anyway. I’m not much for all of the home automation stuff; there’s not much I need automating except for making sure the lights all get turned off at night and Hue is already doing that. What I’m mainly after is a single place to look at all the various “smart” things instead of having to keep a half-dozen individual apps.

Nothing changed book-wise. Business travel earlier in this week had me catching up on magazines, all of which I read on the iPad these days. I’ve been making the most progress in Congar’s book of late. Hope to get some more done this weekend. Very excited to hear of a second season for The Night Manager.