Bought this little box-of-boxes to store boxes for boxes )))

The thing itself is not very large (25×20×16), but the compartments turned out to be long enough to fit tweezers, a spare spark plug, and my DIY phone-to-tripod mount adapters. Now all the junk rattles around in one place. Well, almost all of it… Another box is on its way….

And to answer the question, “why bother with all that fuss with extension cords” — the answer is: to get rid of (or rather prevent) constructions like these:

As expected, 12 outlets turned out to be not enough (or rather, not everything can be plugged in at a single spot — sometimes the cable is just a bit too short), so the final (for now) addition arrived to catch up: a wall-mounted outlet block. They come in various configurations; I went with a more compact one that maximizes USB ports.

I’m obviously not going to connect just one NAS to the UPS — that would be both unfair and unwise.

Well, look who’s here! My first UPS! Having lived on laptops for over a decade, I never felt the need for one — if the power goes out in the building, the ISP’s equipment will most likely go down too, and if it’s just a blown fuse, the router will reboot in a few minutes, no big deal.

Several little gadgets arrived today — groceries and toilet paper get logistics priority over hardware, so the wait was long. But this thing with 12 outlets + 5 USB ports should significantly reduce the entropy of my little cabinet. Life in the 21st century demands constant charging, and not just physical exercise to keep the belly in check, but electrical charging too.

Got out of the habit of tower computers with big fans… Only half a year has passed since that memorable Black Friday when a Synology moved in with me — and this is what its (her?) insides look like today.

• It’s a dryer!

Even when you only need a single SIM card, somehow there are too many phones in the house…

Quarantine, stress, bad weather — you’ve got to fight it with some shopping. It had been sitting on my wish list for a long time, waiting in vain for a discount through two Black Fridays. Then, out of nowhere, the price dropped a little, and I decided to finally close the gestalt and get the big brother as a companion to my pocket-everyday Style. And just like that, another Leatherman joined the family.