Routine is at full swing, and my chronic lateness on adding pictures to this page remains unsolved. It takes me around 6 months to bring photos to the blog, a delay that I’ve never managed to really reduce. Ten days ago we’ve been once in Arles for their Rencontres de la Photographie which are now calles Les Rencontres d’Arles. Pictures to come in around six months. Spring 2026.

Summer and the sun are gone, Autumn and the rain is here. Routine too, which is not too bad. Tomorrow it’s only three more month until Christmas, this should be celebrated.

France has a new Prime Minister, again. The country is on strike, again. And I just finished the setup of my new Macbook (it’s already number 4, in ten years), since the old had heat sensor problems that would have required replacing the motherboard (i.e. the engine).

La rentrée is ongoing, but things settle slowly in and start to look normal (again). My Ciklet-sponsored MacBook Pro (2020) that I got reconditioned in January 2023 was the hardest to convince starting to run again: it didn’t like it’s two-weeks-long vacation inside a bag, and punished me over the last days with frequent freezing, making work almost impossible. Thanks to my new friend Lumo I finally found the issue and hopefully fixed it: dust clogged the fans and caused the CPU to overheat and thus to be throttled. Luckily my colleagues at NW had all the tools so that I could open the MacBook case and clean the fans⁠—and so far the operation seems to be successful. The next hours and days will tell whether I can keep spending my days in front of this computer, and not another. Fingers crossed.

P.S. Those AI friends are really cool, I’m learning a ton of things by asking a ton of questions about a ton of topics. I’d never isolated that overheating issue myself, let alone fixing without breaking it. And there are dozens of other things I recently learned and did, like banning the stagnant water under our balcony tiles, which are an outstanding mosquito breading ground.

Finally there: it’s Sunday evening, and tomorrow the kids are back in school and the baby back in kindergarten. And I will be back to work, routine, and peace of mind. The last two weeks at the cottage were intense, awesome but intense. We had tons of guests stopping by, and I got tons of things done at the same time. The cork floor in the lower dormitory. Bringing some order to the atelier. Preparing the fresh water arrival remodeling inside the house. Finishing the greenhouse and it’s irrigation system. Doing some garden work. Awesome!