Thursday, 15th August, 2024

I thought I’d have time to do things during the day between work activities. But I didn’t. I was going to write out a notional decision post about my radio conundrum but instead did an easier one of using satellites. I also think the radio decision one should probably be private. Feels a bit too much like “oh I can’t decide over which way I should spend thousands of pounds?” for some arbitrary reasons and non-real problems. I do worry it’s a “well now I want to buy more things” problem that I’m self justifying. Maybe just a list of all the stuff and comparing prices would be a good start.

Off for 4 days now. Last weekend of school holidays and wife is going away for a girls trip. Not sure what we’re going to do. I think I’m good enough to try out the 12m vertical antenna in the garden.

I found a list of blog posts I should write for my main site. There was a lot on that list! I should try writing some of them.

I do want to change the style of my main site. Not sure to what though. Feels wrong to have two blogs using the same framework and theming!

Still not done anything with actual budget. The GoCardless API wouldn’t save itself in Actual Budget (although I wondered if it was a proxy network issue that was blocking it?) but also they said European banks, and the U.K. has its own system so I suspect won’t be part of it. Even though in the U.K. there’s the open banking laws that require banks to provide APIs to your accounts for secure access to the data. But I do like adding transactions manually (chunks not one at a time) and then you think about it a bit more.

I do like it has a notes section for each month so you can write things there. Remember when I did that in dokuwiki with a template. Not that anyway saw as it was private but it accomplished the same thing. Might even still have those files somewhere.