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🥈 Celebrated my great-nephew’s 2nd birthday 🍰 🥳

🃏 Home poker league game, monthly tournament; 8 players, finished 3rd, moved to the top of the league!

🏋🏻‍♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.6 kg

📚 Cambridge Latin Course I, 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 Course I, Ch. 4 ✅

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 Course I, Ch. 3 ✅

🍔 Tried a smash burger from a place nearby called Arnie’s — outrageously good! 😋 I’ll be back…

📱 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! 8/10

💼 Received (and accepted) a full-time job offer; start mid-July 🥳

An end-of-year summary of the best television I watched in 2024.

An end-of-year summary of the films I watched in 2024.

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.