@rhempel I took manual machining at our local community college (they still require it for people who take machining classes). I just find that the skills involved in doing it well don't really align with the skills I have.

@rhempel I have seen that channel! He is doing a different kind of machining than me. I respect it but am not myself very interested in manual machining.

Yesterday I was helping my neighbor with her garden and a man walked by, nodding to us.

She told me she knew him. She was born in Amsterdam and seems to know pretty much everyone here and I feel extremely lucky to have her as a neighbor. She explained that he is Jona Oberski and he wrote a very famous book about his time in a nazi concentration camp as a child. It is called Kinderjaren.

I of course had to buy the English translation. I have barely started it. I am going to have a lot of feelings reading this. One of them is gratitude for living in a place that has such clear and present memories about what it is like to be occupied by nazis.