Back in 2007, when a friend helped me move, thanks to his exceptional packing skills, all the belongings from a one-room apartment fit into a Slavuta car. Running on gas… True, there was no furniture, but there were two adult bicycles.

The next move was from my parents’ place to a rented house, and it wasn’t as swift — so it didn’t stick in my memory quite as vividly.

Then came the road to the Zaporizhzhia region, and I don’t remember very well what junk made the trip there either. There was a microwave, I think… And a front-loading washing machine — that was the first major family purchase, for a crazy 2700 UAH or something like that….

Only in times of crisis — when, for example, “everything is terrible” — does it become clearly visible how seemingly insignificant efforts lead to results. And what you couldn’t do at all yesterday, or did only through pain, today already comes much more easily, and tomorrow you can’t even imagine how you could have struggled with such a simple thing.

Unfortunately, the better the state you’re in, the less noticeable this becomes, and it seems like there’s no point in making an effort since there are no results anyway. But that’s not true..

1 kg == 3760.50 UAH == 133.53 USD == 0.007012 BTC

Old age begins with pills on the bedside table)

I’ve long wanted to support this service with a small contribution — I’m perfectly happy with the free ad-supported version, I even disabled my ad blocker on their site.

Finally today I bought an annual subscription — in honor of Halloween they’re giving three months for free, so, nudged by the magic word “discount,” I sent these fine folks 15 bucks.

AWS CloudFront locations show the centers of civilization. You can see that India has it, while Africa does not. Same for northern Nigeria…

Actually, you should take stock and make plans not on January 1st, but when the season closes.)

Installing XBMC, a.k.a. Kodi, again. Remembered that I once wanted to try OpenELEC. Turned out you can’t change the root password in it, and in general it’s a heavily precompiled system. Tried it on ubuntu-server, but the graphics were pretty poor. Went with my favourite xubuntu, and now I’m tuning it up with Ansible. Photos and details will follow — stay tuned.

Tried a perepichka. Pretty decent thing — a sausage in dough, extremely hot. It got me thinking about Ukrainian marketing: over two decades, one modification, one stall, no advertising, nothing — and there are queues. Quite interesting )

Passport documents have been submitted. Waiting.