#weeklyreview 39/2026

#project25 updates

more wrecking done in the living room and former bedroom. Got all the floor material out down to the cellar ceiling. Apparently so-called “Stolte Dielen” – a famous GDR way to build ceiling from hollow concrete blocks.

Also opened up the floor in the remain rooms where there are still the floor tiles in to check the composition of the floor. Will need to get all the tiles out down to the ground plate to start rebuilding the floor for the floor heating system.

Also in the former bedroom I had to remove all the plaster from the inner walls as those need to come off. This room was the first and initial bungalow on the property. It’s only one brick thick instead of 2 bricks as the rest of the house. The rest of the house was built later and thus to original bungalow room was reinforced and insulated with “Sauerkrautplatten” and plaster.

An empty room under renovation with bare, dusty walls and a rough concrete floor, featuring a large window looking out onto green trees, a white radiator, a hanging chandelier, and a red broom lying on the floor.
A room under renovation with an exposed concrete floor scattered with debris, tools, and a coiled blue extension cord. A silver step ladder stands on the left near a window, with a blue floor lamp and a red-handled tool lying on the floor, and a worn plastic sheeting clinging to the right wall.
A white flatbed truck loaded with a pile of broken gray concrete rubble and debris is parked on a paved driveway in front of a two-story house with a brown wooden upper level. The truck bed is lined with a light tan tarp, with pine tree branches visible overhead.
an opened up floor showing some sandy concrete ground and bunch of concrete rubble. A measure on the right side is measuring about 10 cm depth of the hole towards the tiled surface. in the middle there is a round hole in the concrete ground going even deeper.
A close-up view of a partially demolished tiled floor showing broken white and terracotta tiles, exposed dirt and rubble, and a small open hole in the center. A person's shoe is visible at the bottom edge of the frame.
A corkscrew-style metal auger, orange-colored at the tip and steel toward the handle, lies on a dusty, debris-strewn surface next to a small drilled hole surrounded by broken plaster and rock chips.
A room under
A section of a wall under renovation showing exposed wooden studs and white fiber insulation, with a painted brick wall on the left and a white ceiling above.

plums

Got 3kg of plums from my parents and another bucket of tomatoes. The latter of course got cooked down to tomato sauce again. From the plums I made our signature plum strudel with almond-cinnamon crumble inside. Super delicious. Recipe can be found here.

Devoured one strudel myself and gifted the other one to my sister in law for her birthday. The third one I took over for dinner to my friend L.

A hand holds a cross-section of a golden flaky pastry, revealing a savory almond-cinnamon crumble filling inside the layered crust.
A long, golden-brown baked pastry fillo roll resting on brown parchment paper with grease stains, placed on a light wooden table.
A rectangular sheet of pale dough laid on parchment paper over a wooden table, covered with a dark reddish-brown glaze or jam spread in broad, scraped stripes that leave a thin pale border around the edges. A white plate with a blue rim is partially visible at the top of the
A red plastic bucket filled with dark purple plums, many cut in half to expose their bright yellow-orange flesh, resting on a wooden surface.
A rectangular sheet of puff pastry on parchment paper, spread with a plum jam layer and topped with a crumble and rows of whole dark plums, rests on a wooden table. A jam jar and a blue-rimmed plate are partially visible at the top edge.

speaking of dinner … two nights out this week. Tuesday for the birthday party and Wednesday at L’s.

Saturday evening we went to a nice little concert at the MKC Templin. The “Club der toten Dichter” played “Galgenlieder” from German poet Christian Morgenstern. While most of the lyrics was not my style (he’s famous for nonsense style poetry), except for the Werwolf song, the adaptation and music totally made up for it. The main singer is a famous German actor and I was surprised/impressed how many instruments he also played.

A live music performance on a small stage bathed in red and blue lighting, featuring three musicians: a seated man playing an electric guitar, a seated musician at a drum kit and keyboard, and a standing man in a suit singing into a microphone with additional acoustic guitars on stands; the backs of two audience members' heads are visible in the foreground.

SSO

Thanks to @moellus I finally got around to play with Keycloak IDP. Connected Chatto to it for plays and now contemplating whether I actually need SSO.

Having only one account to maintain for various services is certainly nice. But it also makes the IDP the single point of failure. I also don’t have that large of a user base that it would make much sense. So the only good reason left is “because I can” … the usual nerd excuse.

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