I made a therapy appointment

Tl;dr: I asked a girl out :)

I met a girl in a flight and thought we got along well, but she was only in a layover flight while I was in the last flight of my trip. Still, we kept in touch, and she's apparently coming to my city for a few days in two weeks.

So I did something I had never done before (even though I've been in a few relationships before) and asked her out! She said "maybe" (her trip was already planned and she is busy and staying with some friends, she seemed genuinely sorry) so in two weeks I may have a date :)

It's a public holiday today in South Africa. (Good Friday)

So I came up with a cheeky dad joke

"What holiday is it? Workers day? Freedom day?"

"Good Friday"

"Every Friday is a good Friday"

I got two chuckles

I got some chickens.

I finally progressed to 4 reps of 45kg dumbbell overhead press.

I purchased a new (to me) car the other day. Despite my age, this is the first time I’ve done this all on my own and I’m geeked over my credit score. ☺️

I fixed my refrigerator. 2 months ago I was changing the filter, and I was too lazy to turn off the water first, so the pressure was too high and it didn't seat properly. When I turned it, I broke the filter receptacle. I called Samsung, and they said they'll fix it, but they can't tell me how much it will cost until they make the work order, and at that point I can't cancel it if it's too expensive. I asked if they could ballpark, like $100 or $1000. They said they couldn't. So I told them to go fuck themselves. I ordered the part on Amazon for $60. I had to disassemble a decent amount of the refrigerator to get to the part. But I did it! I swapped out the part and everything works perfectly. All in all, it took about 2 hours. There were multiple videos on the internet on how to do it.

Fuck Samsung.

I fixed a boot issue from the grub command line for the first time.

Restarted my show / podcast yesterday, 1 year after losing my co-host (and best friend) to cancer. Moving forward, without forgetting him.

Some would see this as a big step. It's one of the hundreds of things that I've been doing to move forward...

This week has been rough for me. My nervous system is fucked up for various reasons.

Normally I drink one cup of coffee per day. But I had an Uber passenger whom I took to his job at a convenience store. He said “Can I offer you some coffee?” so I came in and grabbed a cup (my second for the day).

That was Monday evening.

I was then awake until wednesday night. I could not catch a fucking wink of sleep for that whole time.

What the fuck, brain??

Well, Tuesday and Wednesday I obviously didn’t drive, because I’m not going to put my passengers in that situation, of having a sleep deprived Uber driver.

Finally Wednesday I realized how I could knock myself out. I cooked a big thing of pasta and ate a ton of it, and sure enough having a big meal knocked me out.

Fucked up, but I’m proud that (a) I didn’t risk my passengers’ safety by giving in to the temptation to drive (I really need the money so it was tempting), and (b) found a way to fall asleep finally.

I know this story doesn’t make sense. I really wish the way my brain worked made sense. It would make life so much easier.

I published the first chapter of a fanfiction and someone already liked it.

I've got a 5(A) on my math(algebra+geometry) exam. Before that I've always had a 4(B). I'm very proud of myself :)

I helped a stranger at Costco load up a giant grill into his truck. I have no idea how he would have managed it on his own.

Managed to get myself referred to a psychiatrist/psychotherapists for my complex issues after having previously done counselling/CBT with very little help in effectiveness of my emotional wellbeing due to having a complex past. Honestly can’t really believe it’s taken for me to get health insurance to be able to get help for it after having tried to get help via state healthcare but they’re entirely useless and only offer counselling/cbt within short terms and discharge you if they can’t help you anymore ;-;

It’s been such a slow process and it’s had a huge effect on my university education negatively, due to it but honestly I’ve haven’t felt more optimistic than ever tbh despite having days where it does get difficult.

a friend invited me to play a boardgame online, called Kingdomino. I really loved it, and since money is tight, I made my own copy of the tiles for in-person play.

They aren't perfect by any means and it took a fucking age to do them, but it's a playable version I can bust out with friends and family.

I both filed my taxes and got my insurance sorted today.

Made another appointment for physical therapy. The last time I was in so much pain for the next couple of days I couldn't function, but... I still can't really move around like a normal person now anyways, so I gotta give it another shot.

Thanks for asking.

I finished a landscape project in the front yard.

I signed up to run a half marathon. I have never ran that far in my life.

I started a blog this month and happy I got 20 posts published

Finally found out why I couldn't renew my Let's Encrypt cert.

Did you know fresh installs of Debian Testing come with firewalld installed and enabled to auto-block all incoming connections? Me neither!

I got my iron farm working in Minecraft

These are all big things. I beat super mario wonder 100% the other day

Last week I ran my first ever under 1hr 10k(56:20 to be precise). I had run 10k before but my PB was 1:08:00.

It's small because I knew it was coming, but I got the job offer for a promotion! Not many people I can tell.

By popular DEMAND, here are some of the chickens mentioned yesterday. They don't have names, so we don't get attached, as they are for improving our soil and, eventually, for homemade stock.

I picked up a Roborock S5 vacuum and flashed valetudo onto it. It's so fun!

I have irrational emotional resistance to thinking about long term planning related to money. Set meeting and met with three financial advisors with my partner. She said that when yesterday’s meeting touched on retirement I looked miserable, but hey, took some steps.

Built my first LED lamp

Finally made it over to the in-laws to replace a ceiling fan that had stopped working

Over 2 calendar months without a drink today. Coming from 2-3 beers a day, previously. Did February, but told myself that didn't count since it's a short month, so now I've done March. I thought I would start drinking a bit now to "celebrate" but it's funny now that I'm here the urge is gone...

I'm going to Muslim wedding next month, so now I'm thinking I'll at least keep it up until then, just to make going to a dry wedding easier on myself.

I'll see after that. I definitely don't want to go back to daily drinking again.

I got a number of patches merged into Movim & after a new release is cut, I plan to ask for a review on my first NixOS module (currently complete, but no one has reviewed)

Set up immich in a vps with reverse proxied ssl access

I crossed the Gulfstream on my sailboat. Twice.

100 days of studying Japanese every day

I learned to play a cool song that incorporates slapping and fingertapping on guitar, but I re-areanged it to play without fingertapping cause finger tapping on my guitar sounded horrible. Still sounded pretty close.

I wrote a short story that is actually well written and doesn’t make me puke.

Obviously I never finished it and moved on to the next project, so well… glass half empty?

I did "Friend Like Me" for karaoke with coworkers. It took quite a bit of practice, but I got most of it.

Speaking of friends, I had dinner with a friend I haven't seen since high school. They hadn't had falafel before so I made falafel, hummus, muhammara, and tzatziki. Those are two achievements: rekindling a past friendship and honing my hosting abilities.

I made a gourd fiddle.