the day of “unwashed russia”

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 backpack and tactical tough-but-not-hot pants. No luck so far.

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….

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 changes, and even more significant — but far from pleasant — geopolitical changes….

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 seemed to me the most brazen app. I blocked its access to calls — the popups seem to have stopped for now. I’ll keep watching.

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 catch up) Not expecting any prizes, but I’ll take the enjoyment from the process, in the spirit of the Coubertin principle.

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 up on it when I should have.