Tuesday, 20th January, 2026

We have a planned radio activation day at the start of Feb. Think about 14 of us will be out on the hills and then meet at a cafe for “tea and medals”. I’ve got it in my head that I want that day to be my 1,000 point activation - an award called Mountain Goat. Which is nice but I started the year on 901 and so need to make short work of the difference. So far I’m managed to do the hills in my plan but today was a huge geomagnetic storm (lots of aurora) and that destroys radio. There’s also still snow on the hills but wet snow and it’s a slog.

Next week will be the decider as I need to get quite a few hills in, not checked the weather yet - bit early anyway - just hoping not for snow storms or pouring with rain all day.

It doesn’t matter if I don’t do it, just would be nice. Plus I kinda want to get it out the way. Then I can just do whatever I want when I want it and not be thinking “oh but I could get more points if I do x”.

I’m on VS Code and a couple of markdown file at work now. Logseq is gone. But past couple of days I’ve noticed VS Code being annoying laggy. Seems some issue between the markdown plugin and git? I deleted the git stuff because I don’t need it at work. Also removed some extensions I never use. Did make me think if there’s some lighter weight markdown editor I could use as I don’t really need much. Notepad.txt …

I have a year file, which today I realised I have the top heading as 2026 then everything is a sub heading. If the file is just 2026 why do I need the heading? Going to fix that tomorrow. Unless I decide I want a log.md and all years go in it. I have three other markdown files that relate to my job but did start wondering if I should keep all the content in on log and use tags or something to link them but I didn’t like that with logseq and prefer just the few files. Also tile the log and the other file side by side and then everything is solved. Still want to see what other markdown editors there are.

Because I’m stingy and also because I know I won’t really use it that much…I’d wondered about using pika pages for writing then exporting it and configuring some SSG to use the export.

Sold a radio this week and now have £500 sat on my eBay account. I know I spent that to buy it originally but it feels like free money 😅 a Mac mini is £500…