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+# Fall 2023 winter break wrapup
+
+2024-01-11
+
+This winter break I did a few things.
+
+## Things I cooked
+
+- Made potato soup with mushrooms and broccoli
+
+<details markdown="1">
+<summary>Three attempts</summary>
+
+![Potato soup with mushrooms](img/f23_winter_break/mushroom_soup.jpg)
+
+▲ First attempt with mushrooms
+
+![Gooey mixture of potato and
+broccoli](img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_goo.jpg)
+
+▲ This hardly looks like soup
+
+![Potato soup with broccoli](img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_soup.jpg)
+
+▲ Refined attempt
+</details>
+
+Note: I imitated the "cream of mushroom/broccoli soup" in dining halls but
+mine was less creamy, probably because I used milk instead of cream.
+I made it like four times in giant portions until I got sick of it and
+just cooked pasta.
+
+- Tried mixing corn with flour and frying a crispy "corn cake" but just
+  resulted in very greasy corn (also caused kitchen sewage pipe to break
+  because I poured hot oil down there)
+
+![PVC pipe under garbage disposal breaking at a 90 degree
+connector](img/f23_winter_break/broken_pipe.jpg)
+
+- Roasted tomatoes, carrots, and bell pepper, as well as leftover potatoes
+  and mushrooms I couldn't cook because the pipe broke
+
+## Things I learned
+
+- How to ice skate
+- Rust
+- How the `fork` and `dup2` syscalls work
+- How to open a pipe (POSIX, not physical)
+
+## Things I saw
+
+- A bunny
+
+![Grey bunny chilling in the grass](img/f23_winter_break/bunny.jpg)
+
+- Steamboat Willie
+- Tom Scott's goodbye video
+
+## Things I gained
+
+- FCC ham radio license
+
+I talked with a person over the W8UM repeater and later participated in
+the net. I was nervous as fuck but handled just fine
+
+- A free eggs coupon, when I came back home with a carton of eggs I just
+  bought at full price
+- A jug of tea for $1 despite the $3 price because the barcode was missing
+
+## Things I lost
+
+None to my knowledge so far.
+
+## Things I played
+
+- [Shenzhen I/O](../random/shenzhen_io_review.md)
+- Bass
+
+## Things I read
+
+- Lakoff, George. _Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories
+  Reveal about the Mind._ U of Chicago Press, 1987. Probably chapter 8-14
+
+## Things I wrote
+
+- [hamrs](https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/hamrs)
+- [shenzhen_solitaire](https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/shenzhen_solitaire)
+- A couple blogposts (one)
+
+## Conclusion
+
+I fulfilled a few life goals this winter (e.g. ham radio license). While
+some friends did, I never went out of town. Mostly I stayed at home and
+only took the bus to the supermarket or to the ice rink. I did absolutely
+nothing festive on Christmas or the new year. However, when winter break
+began, I cracked open a soda because I am not yet at drinking age.
+
+__Overall rating: 75/100__
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