Wednesday, 11th February, 2026

The problem with researching stuff on the Internet if you get 10 amazing reviews and then 10 terrible reviews. I was all set about buying that buffalo mountain shirt that my friend recommended and watched a few videos and it looked great but then started reading some other reviews and it seemed to be less great. It wasn’t as if anyone was exaggerating or lying just I think it comes down to whatever suits them and whatever activities they do and that’s hard to know for what I want.

It’s also pretty expensive and I have clothing already. I don’t know if they ever do sales but maybe I’ll just keep an eye out.

So I looked at Land Rover Defenders. I like the 90 county models, with the old inward facing bench seats in the back. What I’d use it for, I don’t know. Learning “cars”, which would be good to do. It would be fun…is that allowed? Or does everything have to be optimised…

The Reddit time limit on my phone does work. I can easily bypass it or add more time - perhaps some settings to limit that - but it just acts as a nice trigger to go “this is a waste of time, go do something” vs. just sitting there for two hours until I need the toilet.

I was worried I’d cocked up at work on Monday and was wondering if anyone would notice, and why my excuses would be, but then I realised I was mistaken and things weren’t as bad. No doubt a lesson there.

Maybe I’ll get the 2.3GHz transverter instead of the mountain shirt…

But also less things.

For about three years I’ve been saying I should do a monthly write up of our expenses. Just to put a bit of context behind the table of numbers. Still yet to do it. I used to do it in my dokuwiki which was my “whole life” website back in 2017 or something. Even made a template to use each month. I should recreate it. But I won’t.

Reminds me that I made a backup of that dokuwiki somewhere. I wonder if I still have it or if it’s in some random github repo.

Logged into my public services vps and went to update the docker containers but docker compose wasn’t recognised as a command…so not sure what that’s about. I think the only docker thing running is linkding.

Think I need to yolo more and research less. My snow shoes arrived and immediately I regretted not getting the larger size (which is what I started with based). Back they go!