Wednesday, 1st January, 2025

Vacuumed the upstairs and the office. Sorted out my wardrobe and got rid of a bin bag of stuff. Very satisfying. I also sold something on Vinted.

I like the articles thing but I don’t think yesterday’s article was really worth calling out. It would be better within the day. I might refine the page for later, just keep it concise to the aims of 2025 and not the thought process.

I’m not sure what to make of this, but I ordered a Garmin Epix Gen 2. Annoyingly I missed a 10% promo, but it was still a very good price. A SOTA radio friend told me a lot about his Garmin watch and how he uses it all the time and how it’s great for summits to follow the route with GPS. That’s what I wanted, and this one has the AMOLED screen but still a week’s battery with always on display or over two weeks with gesture, which is way more than I need but much better than an Apple Watch. Sometimes when I buy something at midnight, there’s a high probability of regret.

However, I think I’ll like this one more than the other that I returned, as it does have a nice screen and can do topographic maps. I don’t need to wear it everyday, but it will be nice for walks. Particularly as I do want to do some longer hikes this year, perhaps even camping overnight. So I’m torn between is it “buying crap?” or is it “enabling of goals”. You know what I should do? Not care how to categorise it, and think “I got that GPS watch I wanted at a great price, good job, now what’s next to do?”.

Also added Pagefind to the archives page. It’s built with Vercel automagically. It’s funny as I forgot I was using Vercel and started configuring it for Github actions, only to find out I don’t have any actions! Think I need to look up the how to not include the home page in the results as that’s not useful, or it’s just duplication.