Mostly Software

  • Wednesday

    • Private work.
    • Manhattanhenge.
    • Money moves.
      • Switched from doublepay+freedom to CSR: butcherbox, uber (uber wallet, includes ubereats, uber one, uber rides), lyft, equinox, digitalocean, aws.
      • You can now redeem prime card points with chase travel, but you don’t get the 1.5x like for ultimate rewards.
      • Credit limits for all cards are good right now. Updated income etc etc.
      • Mint maintenance/infosync.
      • Liquidated DDOG +40%.
      • Rewards redemption.
    • Attempted cancel for butcherbox, $3 bacon for 3 months. Kept. Also kept Uber One, but switched to annual instead of monthly payment (saves $20).
    • Roomba, vacuum, clean.
    • Calibre.
      • Kindle uses azw3 (when purchased from store).
      • Moved source of truth of library to calibre – not amazon, gdrive, or the kindle devices themselves.
      • Then resynced with Oasis. And amazon content/devices sync automatically.
      • Edited all metadata. Titles, authors, etc. All good now.
      • Converted ALL formats to azw3. This is for kindle. It’s what gives page numbers instead of location numbers.
      • Backed up the full calibre library (to gdrive), ~400MB.
      • Marking as read/unread is a piece of metadata for kindle. Can’t set on calibre natively – just create a custom field.
      • Overall very good experience with calibre. Free product, no less.
    • Applied cumulative updates to windows. And vscode.

  • Tuesday

    • Private work.
    • Soho house.
    • Google Workspace now has Labs, AI-inspired features.
    • Prime day. Looked at apple watches and ipads, don’t need anything tho.
    • Ju Wenjun first loss in women’s championship, Magnus continues dominating in CCT.
    • NYC tap water is legally compliant, but still exceeds safety limits for many contaminants: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=NY7003493
      • Harder water (higher ph, higher magnesium/calcium, more alkaline) is better for you.
      • Fluoride levels are usually too high. It’s used to prevent tooth decay but has tons of other negative side effects.
    • Bulging veins, vericose veins. Smoking (and general bad health) makes worse. Likely blood clot also. Body will dissolve on its own (couple months).
    • Finished the glow stars on the ceiling (and colored stripes).
    • Received and set up the new kindle oasis.
      • Remember you can email documents to your kindle. I added the address in my google contacts. Use epub or pdf (not mobi).
      • There’s now a read/unread feature, so I deleted my old Finished/New collections.
      • Set Oasis to default. Paperwhite to old.
      • Remember that you can manage Collections, Content, Devices, Settings, everything on the amazon webapp. Don’t have to do it all on kindle.
      • There’s also an amazon webreader.
      • Removed the gdrive folder with the raw content. Converted and sent them all to the kindle (which is stored in amazon Content).
      • Convert to epub then email. Mobi is no longer supported. Pdf and epub display similarly (loc instead of page number), but epub shows graphic (when downloaded onto device).
      • There’s also the software “calibre” to manage your ebooks. I’ll play with that tomorrow?
      • “Books” are the ones you’ve bought (and gifts). Everything you send yourself (epub, pdf, etc) is classified as “Documents” – there’s “Audiobooks” as well.
      • Total of 73 read books (7 of which are listened audibles) in my library.
    • Cancelled Volo membership. They were charging $36/mo (on TOP of league fees).
    • Cancelled Calm membership. $60/yr, would have renewed in Nov. I just do breathwork now, more beneficial (imo).

  • Monday

    • Private work.
    • Dentist, checked on cleaning/ortho.
    • Looked at prime day deals on amazon devices. Fire tablets, blink cameras, kindle.
    • Kindle versions are: paperwhite (normal), kids, signature (wireless charging, more storage), oasis (best screen), scribe (notes).
    • Got oasis. My old one was a 6″ paperwhite from 2013, 10 year upgrade.
    • Ducati prep.

  • Friday

    • Private work.
    • Went to BK.
    • SuperUnited Croatia Rapid portion finished. Blitz sat/sun to finish.
    • Planned the next few weekends. A little CA prep.
    • Entered 8sleep’s paris trip giveaway.
    • Went back over notice.co: https://learn.notice.co/en/collections/4072981-announcements

  • Thursday

    • Private work.
    • Soho house the past 2 days. 90 and sunny clear. 12-4 wed, 8-12 thurs.
    • Plants, liver, banana black tea, aquarium RODI, equinox, sauna, stretch.

  • Tuesday

    • Private work yesterday.
    • Watched Andreessen on Lex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hxeDjAxvJ8
    • Haircut, clean, mealprep, distilled water, garden maintenance (new lemon basil microgreens), etc. House catchup.
    • Todaytix mobile app allows free digital lottery entry for shakespeare in the park. Hamlet (hip hop!) until August.
    • Greenwich (CT first time) for the fourth of july.

  • Sunday

    • Brunch uws, bbq wv, thunderstorms, more.
    • Laundry and set up the replacement cover for 8sleep.
    • Friday was billion oyster volunteering and QC spa! Then bustan.
    • Saturday was chinatown and massages and chelsea piers driving range.