Gah, I think I’ve picked up something in the past couple of days. Not sure if it’s from work, from the commute home, or from my sister who is currently coughing and spluttering worse than me.
Flu
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Training
So, second run today of the new plan:
- 5 min walking warm-up
- 2 sets of 90s at conversational pace, 90s walking, 4min conversational pace, 2min walking
- 5 min walking cooldown
Today’s run was nice. Comfortable, with some harder uphills in the middle
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Training
It’s been a long time, but I’m going to try to get back into running. Most of my old apps have died or no longer serve the original purpose they had.
Currently trying Runnah. Seems okay so far. It does also give strength workouts which helps since I have a barbell and dumbbell sets lying around.
I might trial them first then maybe do monthly subscription for a bit to see how it plays out before considering an annual subscription.
First run since I haven’t run seriously for a while was relatively simple, I’m going a “new to running” plan, even though I’m not exactly new to running, I’ve been out of running a lot so going to slowly get back into it via the plan proposed.
First run today was:
- 5 min walking warm-up
- 3 sets of 3 min running at a conversational pace, then 2 minutes of walking
- 5 min walking cooldown
Generally felt okay for this run. Got another run tomorrow, so we’ll see how that one goes.
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Still Here
Yep, I’m still here. Lots to talk about and I’ll need to sit down at some point and write down a massive catch-up post.
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Covid
So last week, my boss and I had a one-to-one review going over things that had happened since the last review. Generally OK, but he was definitely not sounding right.
Turned out that he had picked up covid, and since I was both sitting next to him and had a face-to-face meeting with him, I decided to test myself, but gave it a day before doing so to make sure if I did have symptoms they would have enough time to manifest properly.
I was clear and tested negative.
However my boss was bedridden for about two days before he started answering some of his slack messages.
Now, over the weekend, his bad luck got even worse, and we found out his dad passed away. So not only is he recovering from Covid, he now has to deal with the end-of-life stuff for his dad.
There’s an expression in Chinese which literally translates to “misfortune doesn’t come alone”
Wishing him a speedy recovery and I’m sorry for his loss.
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Updates
It’s been quite a long time since I did any updates on this blog so a couple of updates are in order
House
I’ve now been living in the new place for just over a year. Generally everything is good, we’ve started putting in a lawn and currently letting it get its roots in before we try to cut it
Oh, boy, what an absolute train wreck. I’ve tolerated Elon’s presence at Twitter because most of the stuff he did wasn’t far off what Jack was doing prior. But cutting off all third party clients, forcing everyone onto the new TweetDeck (which likely will be paywalled too) has literally driven users away. Twitter has been losing users and revenue constantly, and it is totally unsurprising.
I’ve disabled my two TweetDeck profiles (a professional one, and a casual one) from Ferdium. But I doubt I will be going back any time soon.
Red Hat
Another train wreck of a situation. Red Hat’s decision to first kill CentOS’s stability, then for RHEL sources to only be accessible behind a subscription has pissed of a lot of users, even if it’s not strictly speaking against license.
The only one left in its sights will be Fedora so that leads me onto the next update
Manjaro & Archlinux
I’ve been tinkering with Manjaro more and more lately, with its rolling release schedule meaning I never need to upgrade from a major version to another major version.
It’s downside I’m finding is that some packages, especially those in the AUR are essentially “compile from source” packages which does the build on your machine during the install. This can take a varying amount of time depending on the code. With my RSS reader of choice: QuiteRSS, this build takes a mind numbing 2.5 hours to do, even on a high spec machine.
That’s where I found out about setting up your own Arch repo. I’ve been tinkering with that, setting it up on GCP and fronted by a CDN. This works pretty well, but I still need to find how I can do scheduled builds to keep that up to date, but it looks like I’ll be switching to Manjaro at some point in the near future. Sound works fine, using lyncolnmd‘s work.
Another downside with Manjaro, however is that its btrfs filesystem, my home directory backup, and CloneZilla don’t seem to want to work well together
WordPress & Domains
One final update, I will likely be transferring out the blenderfox.com domain out of WordPress, while I had this registered as part of the blog, I’m finding it much harder to maintain this domain using WordPress’s very limited DNS management tools. I will likely transfer it out to Google Domains, even though there’s talk of them shuttering that service. Secondary service would be AWS.
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Operation Update
I got called by the hospital and they gave me an update on the lump removed from the mouth. It was thankfully nothing serious, but recommended I keep an eye on it in case it came back (there is always a risk of that)
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Twitter, TFL and Dilbert
It’s been a while so here’s a few updates in the meantime
It’s coming up to a year since I moved house and only now have the pile of construction rubbish been moved from outside my old flat. Dumping of rubbish by the neighbours in the adjoining block of flats into the garage is still happening.
Conservatives lost control of the area to Labour but I’m seeing absolutely no change
We went through a period of very cold weather (-6degC) and this was costing us £10-£15 per day in gas usage.
Moving onto other updates. As posted previously, I went into hospital to remove a lump from my mouth. I’ll soon get a follow up call from the doctor to check how I’m doing. Stitches took about 10 days to dissolve. I just have a small white patch there now where the lump was removed and the doctor cauterised the wound.
Twitter has descended into a real s**thole since Elon took over. First killing all third-party clients and then indicating it may start charging for API usage.
The third-party client purge I can tolerate — it was originally started during the Jack era, but charging for API usage, or even limiting tweets per day is not something many people will accept.
I started working on stripping out twitter functionality from my TFL updates bot and that’s near enough done now. It now tweets (or should that be toots) into a Mastodon account at https://mastodon.xyz/users/updatesbf
RSS feed functionality should still work, but it is not enabled yet, until I can get Keda to work.
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Operation Update
So it’s been a couple of days since the operation. The pain has now died down enough to be tolerable without painkillers – or at least as frequently.
I’m able to eat semi-solid food now stuff like soups, porridge and congee (look that up if you don’t know what that is). I have been able to drink hot drinks without too much pain now, like tea, although I still need to mix in a bit of cold water to cool it down first.
Brushing my teeth has been easier now and I’ve started using salt water rinses as instructed — although the side effect of that seems to be that it dries the hell out of my lips (well, that’s what salt does, after all).
I’ll be heading back into the office next week, but only for one day since I’m training for three days and the fifth day is taken up by another freaking train strike.
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Flu
Ran my LFT and it came up negative. The family also ran LFTs and they were all clear. Guess it confirms my suspicion that whatever I have is just the flu, even though it feels horrible…. :-(
