Random musings—mostly for me, but you might accidentally find something useful too
📚 Cambridge Latin, Book 1, ch. 5 ✅
🏋️♀️ Last week’s weight loss: –1.3 kg
🚘 Solved the car parking situation for the new job; it’s in the city centre so the only options are public car parks — found that a quarterly permit for the main shopping centre car park works out at £65 per mo. (~£2.95 per working day) with only an 8-min walk to the office, the best option by far 👍
🥱 Spent most of the week sorting out life admin and being ill with a bug 🤧
🏋️♀️ Last week’s weight loss: –2.5 kg 👍
📚 Cambridge Latin, Book 1, ch. 4 ✅
💰 Lost most of a day searching for better home and car insurance quotes; time well spent though, ended up saving a stack!
🎲 Monthly board game night at a friend’s house; played Terraforming Mars for the first time. Really liked it! Also, I won.
#science #climate #environment
Today is Show Your Stripes Day; a global moment to share our concern about how the climate is changing and the need for urgent action.
💼 Started doing prep for the new job
📚 Cambridge Latin, Book 1, ch. 3 ✅
🍔 Tried a smash burger from a place nearby called Arnie’s — outrageously good! 😋 I’ll be back…
🃏 Won another tournament in our monthly poker league: 9 players, 1st prize was 6x the buy-in 💵 back-to-back wins move me up to 3rd at the halfway mark, only two points behind
📱 Broke my six-year-old iPhone, three months before I was going to upgrade to the latest model; have bought another old one off eBay to bridge the gap 😩
🎥 Went to the cinema to see John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) …for the first time! 7/10
💼 Received (and accepted) a full-time job offer; start mid-July 🥳
📚 Started re-learning Latin—entirely for my own amusement—30 yrs after reading it at school; Cambridge Latin course, Book 1, ch. 1–2 ✅
An end-of-year summary of the best television I watched in 2024.
My end-of-year summary of the films I watched in 2024.
#Mastodon #RaspberryPi #SelfHosting
Although the official Mastodon installation docs are quite thorough, I did find a few quirks when installing on a Raspberry Pi (both 4B and 5). I've brought together various guides that I used (sources are cited) into a single set of instructions which have repeatedly worked for me.