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I've had a creaky elbow for years, like 20 or more. I finally decided to do something about it and visit the doctor, who referred me to the local hospital for an x-ray. These showed no signs of arthritis, good news :) So I was then referred on to a physio, she decided I need to do some strength training. I could either buy some weights or get a gym membership. I don't really have room for weights at home, so I've joined the nearest gym, about 10 minute walk. Absolute minimum friction was needed…

blocky is a DNS proxy and ad blocker that I’ve been running for about 6 months. I found it much simpler to set up and configure than Pi-hole or AdGuard. Yesterday morning I updated from 0.28.2 to 0.33.0 and that's when things started breaking for me. Some Microsoft domains failed to resolve, mail stopped arriving and I noticed some odd behaviour with Intune and Autopilot. I ended up downgrading back to 0.28.2 as I should have been working and not playing with my homeLab :) When I had a moment,…

Ndereyimana Louis is a dedicated farmer from the Nyamasheke District in the Western Province of Rwanda. Known for its lush, steep hills, high altitude climate, and rich volcanic soils, the region is an ideal location for starting a coffee farm. The initial success of his modest beginning with 500 coffee trees became the catalyst for his family’s development, providing a means for education and social welfare. By 1999, Louis had expanded into purchasing coffee parchment from surrounding farmers…

I usually buy cheap headphones and earbuds, £10-£15 kinda range. Chatting with my brother the over the weekend he mentioned a pair of Nothing CMF Buds 2 he picked up for £20 and how impressed he was. My experiences of Bluetooth headphones\earbuds has been very poor to be honest. I had a pair of Creative Outlier One V2 which had issues remaining paired and the volume control was too course. Even on the lowest volume I found them too loud. This is a common issue I've had with Bluetooth…

iPhone 13 Mini Wallet, an old trifold Fossil Watch Which ever book I'm reading Notebook, currently on Fieldnotes Caran dAche Red 849 Classic Line Ballpoint Pen Neutrogena Lip Balm Keys Sony ZX310 Wired Headphones Uniqlo Black Multi-Pocket Shoulder Bag

I spent a long weekend in Porthmadog, North Wales, the sun was mostly shinning what rain there was overnight. Was great to get away with my gf and all her friends. We spent the weekend unwinding and firing many 2p’s into coin pusher machines. They spit out some paper tickets which you can exchange for complete crap, plastic stuff that'll go in the bin the moment you pick it up. The tickets I won went to the kids or I left on the floor. While at Porthmadog I visited Browsers Bookshop and picked…

In my opinion wondering round charity shops searching for books is one of the best ways to spend time. The weekend just gone I picked a copy of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Next to Nature by Ronald Blyth and No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy all for £1.50. Absolute bargain! I've nearly finished The Hobbit, there's around 40 pages to go. This weekend I'm heading to North Wales, I'm hoping for a few more good finds in the charity shops there.

The last few weeks I've slowly been moving my tasks, notes and to-dos from my phone to a notebook. I've gotten into the habit of carrying it with me fairly easily but that doesn't mean I regularly check it so I sometimes miss priority tasks. So far I've not found a good way to remind myself, I'm sure that'll come though. I've been using Field Notes and while they're robust and can handle being stuffed in a jeans pocket they don't handle fountain pen ink too well. I'll either need to find a…

I don’t have much of a garden, it’s a small backyard with a few plant pots and an attempt at a barrel pond. But after a couple of weeks of trying to attract garden birds I finally saw a couple of Blackbirds, a Blue Tit and a Great Tit. Hopefully now a few know they’ll invite their friends over now

2025 Weeknotes 3Doing Spent Friday and Saturday in Snowdonia. Stayed over night in a bothy which was warm enough. Managed to injure my ankle on the walk in Friday so walking was a bit limited by it. Still good to get out. Spent the week looking at mobile broadband for home, 5G gives me about 800 down and 60-70 up which is more than enough for my needs. Moving to mobile broadband would be less than half of what I'm paying my current ISP. Reading Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson Salem's lot…