12 years ago I was in Rio, today my dad is basically flying over it on his way to backpacking Chile for a few weeks. Despite unexpected and unexplainable hypertension ongoing, I keep getting most of the delicious Galette des rois’ fève! Luck? I don’t think so! And while the local fiscal administration keeps bugging ignoring me—I increased my outcry beyond friends and family to Pantin‘s mayor and some national investigative TV journalists—I keep enjoying my day-to-day jobs with the complete rewrite to the latest Symfony of TopScore and the migration of my fancy React map tool to TypeScript for NW. Preparation for my summer cycling highlight is ongoing, I never zwifted more than these days… which should also help to contain my hypertension somehow.

Holy Three Kings Kids, we are already 2026 and almost through its first week! Work routine resumed, snow is everywhere: 2,5cm that feel like 2,5m since no snow or ice removal is happening on foot and bicycle paths. Today’s work commute—which is now happening only once a week—was tough. My broken one-geared Red Arrow™ was very hard to pedal forward even without the icy road, and tomorrow I will bring my also broken spare bicycle—which I just named Purple Arrow™—to the bike doctor. I also feel like I need a doctor, getting close to fifty comes at a cost I guess.

It is true winter, which is actually kind of fun. Below 0 degrees on average over the last two weeks, a rare thing. We spent the weekend with chickenpoxed Effi at the cottage, where I attempted to save my rainwater tanks from ice exploding. Warmer times will tell. With the wheels we got we now can roam around more freely, and back and forth to Burgundy. And thanks to a nearby parking spot I booked on convenient Yespark we have all it takes to store that city-annoying item away.

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A day at the Weltkulturerbe is over! We are currently in Saarbrücken and inside a nice Airbnb apartment with an unbelievable 25 m² corridor! Our stopover on our way back to Pantin from a lovely 3-day-family-Xmas break in Neustadt was the right choice, despite freezing temperatures I loved touring the Industriekulturdenkmal. Similar to what I could see in the Ruhrgebiet, but more compact and complete. Tomorrow back to the highway and France, home! And soon into 2026. Happy holidays!

It’s insane! After a much painful November, the corporate tax office is not dropping the ball and charged me again, against all odds! It’s a nightmare to deal with these continued administration fails, they still owe me over twelve thousand euros but made once again a claim of the same sum, plus fines. Somebody is trying to come at me since April 2024, and I have no clue why. Nor does my accountant. Why did I ever go freelance? This broken bureaucracy is such a punishment!

Anyway, thanks to Deezer I listen to some good frequencies rather this nonsense bullshit.

After countless back-and-forth messaging with finally reactive SIE PANTIN, my personal bank account was unblocked this afternoon—17 days after the incident began. Now I’m only waiting for the reimbursement of those 12 500 € that were mistakenly removed from my company’s account. That should be a matter of time, and it’s far less of an issue than the blockage. And yes, on Monday I got PACSed yet again. Jamais deux sans trois ! Just like my iPhone, I got my third—a 16E—last week. I’m still spending too much time on it, even though I have significantly reduced my usage since January. My current weekly average is roughly 2 hours per day, which includes at least 20 minutes of Duolingo Chess.