Friday, 21st February, 2025

I’ve been in a writing paralysis situation. This whole week I’ve wanted to write all sorts of things here but I got sucked into “how am I writing” it. Including what keyboard. Why? I have no idea. I just got stuck. So whilst I “decide” I’ll just use my phone now…look it works just fine…

Did a hill today. Weather was wet and windy. I picked a summit with trees at the top so sheltered in them. Was exhilarating going for a walk in the wild weather. I was well waterproofed up so didn’t get wet. Meant I got home earlier than my usual 5 minutes before its time for school pick up. Tried to do some jobs but was too easy to faff about on the computer doing nothing. Plus the cats wanted to see me so I had to sit with them for a while.

Feel close to buying a Mac mini M4. A ham YouTube guy I like recently got a Mac mini and has been trying out radio software with it. He was 100% Linux up until then. Not that this was a big factor but it made me think about it again and how it would be nice to have it. I like the idea of having access to multiple operating systems to pick the best one for the task.

The ironic thing is, I’ve forgotten all the things I wanted to write about and now I don’t know what they are.

I’ve been messing about either my radio blog, setting up a process to make a nice map for contacts for each summit activation. Mostly involves wrangling ObservableJS, which is JS but also slightly different. I figured out that things need to be in blocks, ie curly braces, else it doesn’t like certain keywords. Why? Who knows. But now it meant I got it working. I might return to some of the other things I wanted to do that I ended up doing in streamlit.

Friend I met va SOTA who’s very active, Fraser, just retired today after 36 years at Tesco (supermarket chain). He’s 53. He has a lovely wee cottage on the edge of the Cairngorms. Think he might do personalised mountain tours once he’s had enough of doing absolutely nothing/anything he wants to do I’m sure he’ll come out with me on hill walks or at the same time now that he’s not working.

Eldest’s birthday tomorrow and I’ve bought her the Lego Hogwart’s Express. Not sure if it’s really for me or her 😅. My logic is that we can build a new town with everyone having their own part and trains between them. Probably in the Easter holidays. The boys really want a big box of just 2x4 bricks. So think I’ll order a load from bricklink for their birthday. It was a lot of fun at the Lego House in the “just yellow 2x4 bricks” area. People made amazing things with just a single coloured brick.

Still looking for more things to sell on eBay…

When nvultra?

I’ve been thinking of retiring Tiddlywiki and moving all my notes into Apple Notes, maybe using the Forever notes method. I do still react violently to the idea of putting all my stuff into this closed source, walled, system of Apple’s. What got me, was when I wanted to add a note about something from my phone, and it was a pain to open the browser, go to my wiki, log in, make a new note, etc. plus the mobile browser version of TW is fine when reading but not great when you’re editing. It’s almost to the extent that I just think “ah nevermind” and don’t bother. I’d probably leave my wiki online, as it costs nothing to do so, but I’d use Apple notes instead. I do have a few things that I’d like to write about which I don’t want on here, but I’ve never found anywhere useful for them. I think this Apple Notes thing is also coinciding with my thoughts on the mac mini. I almost bought one just now, but then I couldn’t remember which service I need to log into for the educational discount my wife can get and it’s probably best not to do it at night.

There’s nothing stopping me from trying the forever note, it is free, and I could always use it just for certain stuff. Probably the system will collapse quickly and I’ll not bother.

Been thinking about giving up my photos domain. It’s a nice domain but I don’t use it and it seems like something else to think about. I’m sure it’ll be immediately snapped up by someone and replaced with ads. Maybe when the renewal comes around I’ll decide.