Crete

Crete was great! our first time on that island, ive been wanting to go for years. it was hard to pick the locations as theres so many good ones but i settled on Chania and Rethymno. and i say "i" as doctor was super flexible and trusted that i will take us to places we both like. so first a bit of city and then beach/pool. and i mean the pool, it was SOOOO warm, i loved it. the sea warmed up too during our stay, from around 25.5c in Chania to 26.9c on our last day in Rethymno, thats when i proper went in and enjoyed it. of course we also had good food, saw beautiful things and enjoyed the weather. and i managed to relax. i like to lay by the poolside or on the beach, under the shade, and read. some internets and reading. i guess most people read on holidays tho. thats my impression. from facebook updates and New York Times articles, maybe some Long Reads articles and then some Reddit. but obviously also books. i prefer paper books but traveling with them is less than ideal, i usually just have one paper book with me. the rest has to be ebooks. i dont necessarily finish them though.

what i was reading during this holiday:

Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart (started ages ago, almost done now!!)

Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day

English-Speaking Justice by George Grant (honestly this is really heavy to read, bit too academic for me unfortunately)

The Secret Magistrate by Anonymous

 

we arrived home late last night thanks to a delayed flight. buuut it was sweet to fall into our own bed with the soft fluffy mattress topper. unfortunately the bed still transfers too much movement so we're looking into "zipped" mattresses which is basically 2 mattresses that you can join together but obvioulsy don't have to worry about feelng the other person move. the mattress topper on top will prevent any gap too. but lets see what we can find. we still have 1 week of holiday left so will go mattress shopping i guess. our bank balance will be zero by the time we go back to work, as we've done some other shopping too...

 

we have a new baby; Viewsonic LS751HD. our old projector has been sounding like its dying for the past years (loud fan etc), i feel like it couldve used maintenance or something, so its embarrassing to admit we have done none of that, ever. but its really on overtime, DLP lamps usually only last 2000-3000 hours, this model was "promised" 5000 but it's definitely lasted longer. we (=doctor) mistakenly reset the counter 2 years ago, but after that it's racked up 2495 hours - i just checked. and we got the projector in Oct 2014. so its served us well. trying to "learn" from our mistake of failing maintenance, i felt we should go for a laser - 20k hours and no maintenance! also the old one struggles a bit with ambient light and really dark stuff.. which is an issue in the summer as we might want to watch something in the afternoon/early evening without black out curtains etc... and recently watching The Whale was painful, its super dark. the old Acer is 3000 lumens so i played it safe and the Viewsonic is 5000 lumens.

 we just tested that it turns on etc, so this is not where and how the image will look like. will swap with the old one in the ceiling mount like this weekend. my phone didn't capture the beauty of the image fully, the frame rate...