Thursday, 30th January, 2025

I naively hoped the internet would have been fixed overnight. Obviously it wasn’t.

I wanted to setup the server for my friend but I need the internet…also it doesn’t like nvme drives, so I need to get a sata m.2, and the free ram from the hackerspace turned out to be DDR3, where this takes DDR4, so good thing I did order some. It won’t be ready for his birthday but never mind.

The afternoon came, and the first internet support escalation time was up, so I called and it was escalated again…however, 30 minutes later it was fixed. Great, although shouldn’t have taken all that effort. There were a few annoying things without internet, but it was quite refreshing. The kids complained but then 10 seconds later just went and found other things to do. Perhaps a day without internet would be nice, or do I just sound like some annoying parent. I liked it. Someone asked what I did. Don’t really remember what I did.

This Casio watch is a really nice upgrade. Includes a step tracker 🥰 some nice features and the screen seems sharper. Can link to your phone, not sure what happens with it then - other than time sync.

Tomorrow should be a three summit day, and it’s supposed to be still weather and sunny. I always think if I should be doing some other summit when it’s a nice day, although I don’t know which one. All these three are new ones for me, so that’s good. Plus during winter bonus it’s best to do as many as possible that get the bonus, so even though I could get more points tomorrow, over the whole year I’ll get more by doing 3 smaller ones tomorrow. I think there’s still snow on the higher ground anyway, and that slows you down.

I caught up with transactions in Actual Budget the other day and then read the manual. I like the regular budgeting (vs. envelope) as I’m not really budgeting but just comparing in vs out and this is perfect for that. I also like the customisable dashboard. Still not got it to where I want it but it’s pretty good. Press a button, sync transactions, categorise a few that aren’t auto done and then look at the summary. Pretty much what I want.

Next thing to investigate are all these tools on this site and I do need to tidy up my master spreadsheet of everthing.