🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W44
2025-11-03 19:01
New month, new calendar page:
November: Green blossoms, 16th October 2024
❄️ We had the biggest dump of snow for the year at ground level, even though we're 2/3rds of the way through Spring (photos below).
🧠 I'm diving back into the Getting Things Done book by David Allen. With some heavy work weeks I have felt like I've fallen off the wagon and been caught in the crushing spokes of the wheels of life, being tossed wherever it wants me. GTD has saved me many times when I've felt this way. A lot of it is basic stuff, but it works almost instantly. I especially want to revisit the "Reflect" and "Engage" parts. Particularly Horizons of Focus and Areas of Responsibility. A lot has been shifting there for me as my life has taken some shifts. I've got a few open loops in career, relationships and health which I would like to put my energy towards. True to GTD though, I'll be working from the ground up, starting with capturing everything off my mind, then clarifying, organising and eventually reflecting and engaging. I'll move through this fast, so it may resonate in what happens on my website.
💻 🖧 I've bought myself a second-hand Supermicro enterprise-grade server for $900 NZD. It arrived yesterday, and I've already got TrueNAS up and running on it for my first experiment. I'll be looking into setting up my storage pools next with ZFS RAIDz. It has 6x 3.5" HDD bays, which is more than enough. I have some spare HDDs lying around. It is a big thing (especially depth), so likely I'll just leave it out of a rack, or build something custom. If I upgrade in future I'll get a shallower one so the rack can be shallow too. I'm going to build a site at srv.zkbro.com which follows my journey into server administration.
💻 Tools
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SmartTube - Installed this on my Amazon Fire Stick. Now I can watch my favourite weatherman without pesky ads on my dumb smart TV..
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TrueNAS Community Edition - This OS was suprisingly quick and easy to install on the Supermicro. It is a NAS oriented OS (similar to UnRAID and OpenMediaVault) with a web GUI dashboard which is going to make things a little easier to set up rather than running something like a Debian or Ubuntu server OS. Apparently a pretty difficult one still, but I think it will be a good one to use to force me to learn a bunch of sysadmin type things.
🕸️ Currently reading across the web
- Bullet points and bold text | Erik Johannes Husom - A thought provoking read on the history and direction of short vs long form writing, and relating it back to how we read and write on blogs and websites. I certainly write more in the short way - lists, bolding etc. and like to read the likes of too, but I also like reading longer wordy articles (like Erik's) which engages me more. I'll maybe try my hand at longer form writing in the future.
Activity Stats
🤸 Pilates [4] 1:11:49
🏃 Run [1] 0:38:35 - 7.9km - 80m
💪 Strength [1] 0:30:29
🏁 Total: 6 activities - 2:20:53 - 7.9km - 80m
