Journal

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 →

Watches. Smart watches in particular. I really like my Garmin Epix when going on hikes for the maps and tracking my route. But I’d like to wear a normal watch most of the time, but feel bad about not wearing my Garmin.

For a while I liked the sleep tracking stuff but tbh I don’t need it and for me it’s as simple as “go to bed at 10 - feel fine”; “go to bed late - feel bad”. I do track myself cycling to work but I’m not sure why. My cycle to work is a commute, it’s boring but nice to do some exercise before I get into the office. I think I keep tracking it so I can get badges and points on Garmin connect. 🙄

I should just wear it for my hikes and then enjoy other watches. No one cares about my Connect level, so why should I.

Plus now I won’t feel bad about buying a new watch 😅

Not sure about this featured post/intro bit at the top of the page. Also seems you can get micro.blog in a twist if you make posts and edit their dates. My admin page shows one post but the web shows two. Anyway, a lot of time faffing with a tiny item.

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 →

Swapped around DNS, so now micro.blog is my main blog on fondoftea.com. The tiddlywiki I was using is now on wiki.alexjj.com and the previous tiddlywiki (that wasn’t really updated) is idling on github somewhere. Plan is to use this site for all content, and try and make use of categories better.

Quite like this theme, just going to play with some of the settings to see what I like, and maybe make a few pages. Debating if I add in older posts or just leave it. Would like to import my read book list so I can use the nice icons from the shelves.

I’m on the micro.one subscription, which mostly means I can’t edit the theme as much as a regular subscriber. So far I think that’s okay, as luckily there are a nice selection of quality themes and I still get to do custom CSS.

I thought about importing all my read books into the book shelves, so I get a nice grid of book covers for the ones I’ve read. But it’s a lot of work and I quite like my existing book list by year that I’ve been maintaining since 2015.