I spent the afternoon writing a lengthy blog post about depression and trauma. Will I post it? I am going to return to it in a few hours and see what I think.

I have a new website (in progress). And the first project is published. Fingers crossed it serves me well.

I finally caught up with the Virgin River Christmas special.

Aaaaaaah. It’s like a warm cup of tea and a duvet on a cold day.

Only 327 days..

Silhouette of two trees with houses behind. The sky is mottled deep magenta pink, violet and purple clouds at sunset. Telephone cables radiate from a telephone pole.

Holy crap! Art in the sky.

My mind is glowing

🎵

My average daily steps for January 2024 was 20111. This is a good upward trend. This is the highest since before I had Long Covid last year. I feel I’m beginning to get my fitness and strength back.

  1. tracking device is my phone, so typically only outdoors steps are counted ↩︎

I think I’ll have to email Backblaze about the Safety Freeze event yesterday. I have successfully reinstalled and the backup is running ok again. But it’s reporting about 500 GB less data in the backup than there should be.

I’ve checked my Carbon Copy Cloner logs for the last few days and I haven’t lost 500 GB locally.

I think I remember last year it did something like this. And then sometime later, the Backup size jumped back to the ~4TB I was expecting.

So I’m putting it down to some kind of error in Backblaze. Which I will try to report.

My landlord (the biggest in my town, I guess) emailed an Excel spreadsheet of 600 people seeking support, their names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers to the entire list.

Some of those people are vulnerable people.

I am on that list. Lucky for me, only my name and email were included. 😞

I have another Backblaze Safety Freeze1. I don’t believe I have any cause for concern but the problem with this safety feature is there is no information given on the cause of the Safety Freeze being inacted. Not even the time it happened. I just know something happened since 5am.

Resolving and restarting the back up requires manual verification/comparison of data between my local machine and the online backup. This is completely unrealistic, being that the web interface for browsing files in the online backup is extremely basic. And then I have to uninstall and reinstall the service

Please Backblaze2, give me some logs to look at, or something helpful. I do love the service but this is a bit of a headache and a faff, with uninstalling/reinstalling. This feature needs to give me more data to work with. I’m basically having to make a guess that this is a false positive.

Backblaze is a great service despite me moaning today. Get a free month-long trial here.

  1. I had one last year sometime too and came to these same conclusions ↩︎

  2. if you ever read this.. ↩︎

I picked up a guitar at music group today for the first time in years. It was amazing! I’m a complete novice but I want to learn.

When I got home, I dusted off my acoustic guitar and had some fun strumming. There’s nothing like the feeling of it. It’s medicine for my soul. 🕊️

Reacher season 1: 8 out of 10
Reacher season 2: oh dear out of 10 📺

Today was super-busy. But full of achievements.

One of which was learning to use a sewing machine.

I’ve been away visiting my parents, and it’s been a really nice break for me as it always is. But I always struggle to be back home again. I feel like a stranger in my own home. I feel scattered, distant and unsure of who I am.

A large bowl containing trifle. Custard and raspberries visible on the surface. Sitting on a cluttered table of cutlery and plates.

I made this “trifle”. 1 Yum, yum!

  1. doesn’t contain jelly so I’m not sure it qualifies as trifle. ↩︎

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I’m away with the fairies

I’ve been watching Reacher. The first four episodes went by in a flash. Love it 📺

I just found I can mute words in @gluon app for Micro.blog. Excellent! It seems to support emojis too!

A scandalously hot bath, for self care 1

  1. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh ↩︎

Woah! What a day it’s been already1! I feel included, and hopeful. I finally feel like I’m beginning to plug into community2 again

  1. 2pm ↩︎

  2. IRL ↩︎

I just saw a fox in the garden! 🦊

Good morning Mr Fox. Will you join me for a hot cacao?

I’m back at my favourite spot in the park. 📷

Wide angle view of a pond and bulrushes. Wintry trees in background. Blue sky with clouds reflected in the pond. The scene is underexposed.