Day 60 of quarantine. Finally got an opportunity to test my new Chromecast Ultra with my FitBit coach in my living room. There was more room here to do the workout versus my bedroom and shed plenty more sweat than I normally do doing the workout in my bedroom.
Weather is still plenty windy and the temperature is much lower than the past couple of days...
Trying to decide whether to do my walk later....
EDIT: I did.
Nearing day 60 in quarantine. Today was a very window, cloudy start to the day. My bedroom door in fact slammed closed at 3am in the morning from the gust of wind that came through the open window.
My final car cheque FINALLY came through. Guess this now means I have to give up the car within 7 days. Which is a bugger because now I'll have to get the bus to the car showroom in June.
Regards to training, I did my walk and am currently contemplating whether to do my FitBit workout today or tomorrow....
Update on my car. They say the final cheque is in the post, and now they will be contacting me to arrange to pick up the car.
But I haven't been able to buy a new car because all the showrooms were locked down. I asked them to reconsider.
Meanwhile, another hot day so I did the walk and not the workout, also probably not a good idea to do a workout so soon after eating lots of pizza ^_^
Did my FitBit workout today. Trying to workout in 25degC heat isn't fun, but I did it with my windows open and a fan blowing in my face.
And, I did my walk to boot. Again the shorter walk due to being on call. My pace was notably slower than usual during the walk due to the heat. But as a result, wasn't sweating as much as I was expecting. Still was, though ^_^
Same as yesterday, a scorcher of a day, so a quick walk in case I got an incident call.
Scorcher of a day today and I start my week of on call :(
Did my short walk and felt like I'd been walking for an hour because of the heat....
Same as yesterday, didn't want to risk being too sweaty without having access to a shower.
We got someone in the check the drains, we even got a rod thingy to help unblock it. Turns out part of the steel pipe in the house was rusted and some of the outbound water was getting blocked by the rust.
Walk but no Fitbit workout -- my shower drains have blocked up so I'm avoiding making myself sweat too much as I'm unable to clean myself properly until I can get that drain unblocked.
No FitBit workout today, but did my long walk. Tomorrow is a non-working day for me, so will use that day to do my FitBit workout, study and do some side projects. Oh, and shopping too....
FitBit workout today -- Legs, Arms Shoulders. Sweaty workout, but not too sweaty.
Went and did my 3k walk afterwards too.
Next workout is "Total Body"
Finally hit day 50 of quarantined exercising. A colder, but less windy day. Big lap today, but decided to try cutting some of the longer corners to see how much of a difference that made.
My hair is really starting to grow out and is beginning to really irritate my ears.
And I found out my second backup domain I play development with no longer had its email forwarders working, and when I logged in, my account seemed to be pretty borked. A back and forth with support emerged that my hosting provider got acquired (again) and looks like my data was not transferred properly, or was empty when it was transferred. More likely someone f**ked up during the migration.
They recreated my account but it's still pretty flaky. I'm asking whether I'll get a credit for the 6 months of failed hosting (the acquisition took place at the end of last year), and I'm seriously considering transferring the domain off this hosting provider and onto Google Domains, but I would lose my email forwarding. I think I'll look at buying another dummy domain on Google Domains and test with that for a bit.
Fitbit workout today wasn't too bad. Not as intense as my last one. Still sweaty, but not "dropping beads of sweat" sweaty. Next workout is Legs, Arms & Shoulders
Also did my 3km walk, but today was super windy during the walk so I won't be surprised if I catch a cold from this.
After using my Pixelbook Eve on Ubuntu Eoan (19.10), my Ubuntu has started notifying me for an upgrade to 20.04 LTS. So, based on my past experiences of Ubuntu upgrades and how they always break things, I went through the process of backing up my files and making a Clonezilla image of my Pixelbook before even starting to do anything.
Then I went through the upgrade. It went through without any problems, but when it went to reboot afterwards, I was black screened after the Ubuntu splash screen.
I suspect it's because my Pixelbook contains some tweaks via this GitHub repo, and that is still using a 4.x kernel. Last update was in 2019, so maybe it's out of date.
Before restoring my old image back on, I installed GalliumOS which is an Ubuntu-based distro specifically aimed at ChromeOS devices. Then made a backup image of that before restoring the old image back on.
I might try installing Ubuntu 20.04 from clean and see if that has any better Pixelbook support than the older versions of Ubuntu, and make it so I don't need to use the hacks. Bear in mind the hacks used the ChromeOS kernel, and I couldn't do some things like use ufw or gufw. Using GalliumOS should fix that since I wouldn't be using tweaks.
However, there's still an annoying quirk GalliumOS has on my Pixelbook and that's the jumpiness of the mouse pointer -- touch the touchpad and the pointer jumps to that part of the screen, as if the touchpad was a representation of the screen, not a touchpad. It's a quirk that can be gotten used to, but it is still annoying.
Short walk today, 3km, no fitbit workout as my arms are still hurting too much from yesterday's workout.
Short 3 km walk and fitbit workout. There was some emphasis on arms today, and my arms are SUPER sore.
Next fitbit workout is back and core
I've been getting horrendously slow speeds on Linux Steam (~500k/s) and 5-6Mb/s on Windows, and only now found out why. There's a ticket on GitHub for this:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3401
In short, the client is very aggressive on its DNS requests, which normally causes it to be throttled by servers, leading to really slow downloads. However, using dnsmasq allows the requests to be cached locally and offload the requests.
Even though the instructions are for Arch, they worked for me:
dnsmasq
/etc/dnsmasq.config and add the line listen-address=127.0.0.1
dnsmasq service (systemctl restart dnsmasq.service) or reboot your machineEnjoy the speed
A free Friday because I'm now on 4 day week, and it's VE Day, so my one-hour walk came across several roads with bunting and lots of Union Jacks. It certainly was suitable weather for it...
Lots of people were queuing and saw the longest queue outside Tesco Supermarket (and not Sainsbury's surprisingly)
After the one-hour walk, I then did my Fitbit workout, which was just shy of 35 minutes and I certainly felt it afterwards....
Dropped an email to the insurance brokers to ask when I would expect to see the final cheque for my car and they advised end of this week, early next. And I then asked about the hire car and they advised I am entitled to the car for another 7 days after the receipt of the final cheque.
Problem is, I can't get another car right now due to the lockdown, but I did check on Car Wow and Auto Trader. Car Wow seems much easier to use. And I have already got an offer from a Toyota dealer in Woodford Green, about 1.5 hours bus journey away (three buses) and only about 10 miles.
Doing early shopping tomorrow, so only did my 1hr walk today, and no FitBit workout, but should be able to finish this week's set if I work out Friday/Saturday/Sunday
A nice hot day, no queues except outside Sainsbury's, and a few at Co-op on the way back.
Decided to do my Fitbit workout before my walk today. Meant I was already feeling hot when I started my walk and today was reasonably warm, so by the time I finished, I was sweating again....
Did the long walk again today, only a few queues today, outside Tesco Petrol station, Sainsbury's and Tesco Supermarket.
Forgot to bring my earbuds so it was a silent walk around the 5k lap, but surprisingly relaxing. No music meant I was left to my thoughts. Of course, it did also mean I was bugged by some beggars on my way around -- they always seem to congregate around Sainsbury's for some reason....
Long walk today. Queues were back. Pharmacy, Sainsbury's and Tesco's all had relatively long queues. Sainsbury's being the longest. Guess I spoke too soon when I said the panic buyers had bankrupted themselves....
Got my first cheque in the post from Aviva the insurance company the other driver is part of. Now waiting for the second cheque from the Salvage agents.
Also got a refund from DVLA for the remainder of my road tax since the car is now written off.
Grey skies, but no rain, 45 minute walk, 4.76 km, and no queues at most of the shops. A few people waiting outside the butchers and the Co-op, but nowhere else.
Beginning to think most of the panic buyers have bankrupted themselves, or are desperately trying to shift their hoard, like the guy mentioned on Sky News Australia
1 hour walk today, no rain luckily, and very few queues in the shops. Butcher had a queue of 1 and the fruit n veg had no queue when I walked past but had a reasonably sized queue when I came back.
I'm on four-day weeks now, due to Coronavirus, so did the shopping this morning at Tesco. No queues at all, surprisingly, and the in-store baker recognised me, wondering why I'm there on a Friday instead of the Saturday like I normally am ^_^
Did my 1 hour walk, and the last bit was a sprint as it started hailing. Yep, another wet miserable day, and then, just to rub it in, it turned sunny after I got home....