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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I do both, and it’s heavily dependent on what the purpose of the note is for.

    I keep a yellow legal pad and mechanical pen. Stuff that goes on the pad are usually the ultimate in throwaway notes. Scribbles that are wholly transitory.

    Then I have a digital note management system (Obsidian.md) and use it to maintain a personal journal and Zettelkasten.

    Some yellow pad notes might flow into Obsidian, but not always.



  • You may (or may not) be surprised to learn that modern jet liners have much higher glide ratios than small planes (like a Cessna 172), though even the glide ratio of a Cessna is pretty damn good at about 9:1, getting 9,000 feet horizontally for every 1,000 feet of altitude.

    All pilots are trained in engine-out procedures as part of their license training and, while unequivocally an emergency condition, is fairly benign until it’s time to land—preferably on a suitable landing surface.

    Face your fear and go on a discovery flight with a flight instructor at your local municipal airport.





  • To this end, for some it might be helpful to start with tracking spending (speaking from personal experience). I couldn’t determine what was a reasonable amount for a given category for a budget because I didn’t see my current circumstance.

    I spent several years categorizing my expenses into two broad categories: fixed vs variable.

    Fixed costs are utilities, mortgages, grocery, and insurance etc, variable costs were anything else (more or less).

    By doing it this way I could see the minimum I needed to live—and also how much I was spending on frivolous shit.

    Use Google Docs, and make a simple spreadsheet to track numbers. It doesn’t have to be a beautiful sheet, just functional. It will grow with you over time as you add and remove functionally to track different aspects of your finances that are important to you. If you don’t know how to use spreadsheets, online MOOCs have courses for a tiny amount of dollars relative to what you learn.


  • I have run my own PiHole previously. Then I wanted Ad blocking on my phone, so I also setup OpenVPN that ran alongside my PiHole so I could get ad blocking anywhere. I travel often, and then we moved, so I never got it set up again, at the same time I discovered AdGuard could be configured on both home networks for network-level blocking, but they also have device profiles for iOS.

    I haven’t had to fuss with PiHole now in years.

    If you are happy to do the administration of a PiHole, and the scope it provides, it’s good. I didn’t want to have to fuss with it anymore.