Tuesday, 10th December, 2024

I’ve not written on here in a while…he says again… Felt like I had so many things to write down but now it’s 10:30pm and I’ve written nothing and feeling tired and know I should go to bed.

I want to redo my main site but still don’t know what.

I want to make one of these for the kids. We bought a yoto player for the little one and everyone loves it, but I don’t want to pay for more of them (although would be a good solution) and so I’ll build one. Except the reality is, I’ll never get round to it, and probably it’ll end up being more expensive. I actually don’t want to make it exactly like these ones as I’d rather just have a small screen they can pick things from to listen to. Really all I need is a rpi, some speakers and a small touch screen. I have most of those lying around, just not the screen.

Another morse key arrived in the post - a cheap, tiny one from the US. It shamed me into how I’ve already stopped learning.

I’ve got a backlog of SOTA summits to write up - maybe 7 or 8 over the past week. It’s quite a slog to get through them but really I should do one a night and I’ll chip away at them. It’s only as I was off most of last week that I did quite a few. I maintain all these sites but then they just become chores to do. If I had nothing then life would be simplier? Recently I’ve bought various radio things off eBay, and then they arrive and I realise I didn’t really want them, I just liked the idea of them. So now they clutter the garage for projects that I’ll never get to. I should fix them up and sell them on, except I have to fix them up first. It’s just a chore that I don’t want to spend time on. There are so many things about that are like that - things I’ve bought with some idea in mind but then I never do it. The office is also a tip and really needs sorting out. So many chores.

I used to do a lot of computer admin at work but since going to 4 days a week, I don’t really have much downtime to do my own thing. Probably good but now I spend it going out if I can and then it’s just the evenings. I don’t know what I’m complaining about and it’s more just an observation.

I’ve been looking at Land Rover Defenders…the older style and the short wheelbase 90.

Would be so fun as an adventure car for the hills. I also like how it has two bench seats in the back and so the kids could actually come with me, and it would be a fun trip. I’m hesistant to do anything about this whim, and perhaps it’s just that and it’s more expensive than some random radio part or a new camera etc. It’s a car which drains money. Plus they’re not cheap, even the old ones, but I guess they’re in high demand and perhaps if nothing else it would retain its value. We don’t have much space on the drive and I can see my wife getting annoyed with it. We really don’t need it…I’m not going offroad, most places might be some end of path track that in the winter could be snowy or icy but probably much of the year it’ll be fine. Now it would be useful for going on longer trips where the electric car just doesn’t have the range, and where I might want to sleep overnight in it. Although everyone says it’s a terrible choice for overnighting. It would be a bottomless money pit…but no-one ever buys a car for good financial reasons.