Cleaned the strings. Busted out the lemon oil and a microfiber cloth. Fretboard is rosewood. Been at least a year since I've oiled her up. Look at her now.

Question now is: how often should I do this again? She's kept indoors, IDK how humid/vochtig it is in the building (no hygrometer here, gotta an old-timey thermostat).

Valerie's still gorgeous.

Do you take your coffee seriously? Me, I'm a fanatic.

I started off with a Mr. DRIPSALOTTADRIP pre-college days. We'll skip the wild college years. And the first marriage. Then, having learned about cooking beans, humidity levels at harvest time, how much sweat/tears went into the early stages of the product (Fair Trade and such), I arrived at an Italian Lamborgenie, Contouth model where your rear window (water reservoir) is... shit, where's the window?

I had proper coffee now. This was the cobblestone kinderkuppa I stood on.

Track forward the next 12 years, black pearls of wisdom, more Genies and Pressure Cookers from Italy and The Netherlands, and you will have arrived at my most aromatic, captivating cuppa feeh I've ever created. The acidity- mwah! Tasting notes- I'd say Earthy and with a hint of calcium.

Look away, faint-of-hearts, and you lot of scumsipping teabaggers, THIS - IS - COFFEE and you bet your bottom pocket lint you can't duplicate or mass produce it for consumerism.

Needs a name for my coffee manifesto. Rage Against the Grinding? Spill it, my fellow coffee deviants and aficionados. Name it.

I walk the same path to/fro the park. I'd like to think that I don't have a habit of shuffling or not raising my feet high enough for the next step. Or so I thought.

For you see, my fellow Lemmings, today was fraught with a danger undulating through the stone. "LOLseas is coming, lol, do it, now!"

The paver jumped up at least 3cm just in time for my boot to connect. I tripped, but didn't fall. Onlookers quickly looked away as I let out a sad, but lengthy sigh. I know the nearest dog must've heard me.

The rest of the cobblestone path was a cakewalk.

I cleaned the innards of my sole electric guitar distortion pedal. First time ever, bought the thing in the early 2000s. Wild seeing spiderwebs inside it, and no spiders.

I apologize for the non-OC photo, but my phone camera app kept crashing. Tomorrow's another day.

Hi all, first post.

I moved to The Netherlands a few years ago, and am wanting to prepare for a career change from helpdesk to cyber security. I'm also doing a Dutch language course 1 day every week, ik moet het leren.

Long ago, I held a CompTIA A+ cert. I don't have any at this point. Not strong on networking or programming skills, either.

Got any good suggestions on getting into the field in 2026? I'm a GNU/Debian guy, and have free time to study. Any good meetups in The Netherlands to seek mentorship or sharing of knowledge? Hoping some Dutchies and Duitsers can chime in.

Goal is to become a CISO but if I don't make it that far, I'll still land amongst the stars.

Alvast bedankt! Thanks in advance! -LOLseas