today Ukraine was granted visa-free travel. I regret a little that I didn’t get a passport sooner. now I’ll have to wait out the wave of “zradofily”.

Bought this backpack. Grey color. Going to try it out.

Starting a series of short factual articles — notes.

Another trip to the dentist.

Strawberries are available to buy — they’ve been selling them for a while now, looks like the nitrate season has passed.

Looking for a single-strap EDC universal …

Today I heard the claim that in order to live longer, one should live more economically: breathe less, move less, eat less (and therefore digest less), meditate, spare one’s nerves….

While looking for a way to archive the journal, I fell into the classic trap: when you start tidying up and throwing out old things — the main thing is not to start browsing through them))) It was so interesting to look back at my old posts and see the …

So much has changed over the years of having that LiveJournal page…. Moving back to the homeland and back again. And another move. More moves that never got written about. Buying real estate and movable property. Significant and pleasant career …

After every call, popups started appearing offering to install Facebook or Yandex.Taxi. I read around online — people write that a lot of junk like this comes pre-installed in the phone’s firmware.

I decided to check one suspect — TouchPal — as what …

Got an invitation to a corporate chess tournament — I had marked somewhere that I enjoy chess, so they found me and sent an invite. The game is online. Haven’t played in a while; curious how chess affects work, life, and decision-making.

Need to …

I’m taking an ITIL course and remembered that I once invented my own CMDB without knowing any ITIL practices or recommendations.

It’s hard to say whether it’s a good thing that I’m so clever, or a bad thing that I hadn’t read …

Installed Docker on the laptop.

Had been afraid of it locally for a long time — figured it would eat up all the space and thrash the SSD.

But eventually had to bite the bullet. Moved /var/lib/docker via a symlink to the HDD, will keep an eye on the space …