Plantay's Weblog

About 8 years ago, I bought myself the cheapest "gaming" mouse - the Bloody V5.

I added a new section to the website - photos.

The only thing I still didn't like after the recent website redesign was the microblog.

First time trying sake - WOW.

I thought I'd write a few words about where I've been and why I haven't posted.

Before every summer, I promise myself that THIS TIME I won't waste my time, and still, every summer I either work or look for a job.

I'm back after a year-long web hiatus, but I'll write about that in detail in the next post.

Found this game a week ago, and it's taken all my attention: Prosperous Universe.

I bought a walking pad for my upcoming birthday, and it's such a good thing.

Since I built a new PC, the old one has been sitting unused, so I decided to do something fun with it.

Pics from my trip to Alaverdi and the Debed Canyon.

Pics from foggy Lastiver.

I need to slow down with all the plant cuttings, it's getting out of hand.

Some pics from this winter!

Well... after 2 months, I sold the racing wheel and added some cash to build a new PC.

It seems that I escaped the endless work loop, and there's more room to breathe right now, which feels weird - when you do something 24/7 for some time, it's hard to return to a normal life tempo afterwards.

Some views on the way to Ijevan.

The last couple of days I’ve been researching how cars work, since I want to make some 3D animations for my new job - and I seriously lack knowledge in this area.

A few weeks ago, I updated my setup for video editing (well, and everything else, since it's my main machine) - and I just love it so much!

Lately, I’m finding myself more and more often in situations where I can’t set my priorities and values straight anymore.

It's been a long time since I spent a night in a tent - I really missed camping.

sum 27 logs / 63h55m logged time / 02h22m avg session [ A ] 01h40m | [ C ] 10h30m ||||||||||| [ H ] 07h15m |||||||| [ W ] 44h30m |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Nothing interesting happened this week - I'm still working almost all day e…

My new logging system really helps me stay sane right now.

I'm 100% in work mode right now, and I'll get back to emails as soon as I can!

sum 30 logs / 58h44m logged time / 01h57m avg session [ A ] 30h22m |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| [ C ] 13h47m |||||||||||||||||||||| [ H ] 04h00m |||||| [ W ] 10h35m ||||||||||||||||| 250525 : H RUN 00h40m 5k morning run!

It’s been almost a week since the previous post, and during this time I’ve been working on a new version of my logging system.

Disclaimer: It's not a documentation of any kind, I have no idea how to write documentation correctly.

After finishing work on my logging system and dashboard this morning, I accidentally found these two amazing things while surfing through the webring: Log by Josh Færeld by Mika Both are CLI utilities for logging and time tracking.

Spent another 6 hours tinkering with the homepage, trying to find the best-looking layout possible - or at least one that makes sense.

Reading: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002) Albums played: Softscars by Yeule (2023) Matangi by M.I.A. (2013) Movies watched: Happyend by Neo Sora (2024) Oh wow, look at that!

A working version of the new logging system is ready.

Next week my new job starts, so while I still have some free time, I decided to finish my May-website-revamp by creating an automated dashboard for the homepage!

Just added a new script that resizes, compresses, and dithers all images and thumbnails!

After automating some stuff with scripts, I had a few more ideas I want to implement here: Automatic image dithering before building the site.

Decided to run on my street instead of the stadium today.

SSH works great too.

Also, I finally added an automatic date update in the navbar!!

The RSS and Atom feeds broke after adding new sections btw!

What a great week - so much done!

Also, I finally gave up on using Windows for website maintenance.

I wasn’t sure about adding a microblog section of any kind, since I use the weblog for literally everything.

I’ve been thinking about moving all my videos from Youtube to this site for a long time, and finally - it’s done!

Okay, it's not that ugly - only because I fixed it this morning.

I got annoyed by the total size of my website, so I finally decided to optimize it a little bit.

Why do we like the things we like?

First of all, I’ve just finished reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - so if anyone wants to discuss it, you can email me at plantay at proton dot me.

It’s been about a month of workouts and running almost 5–6 days a week - I feel great, and maybe even a little proud, since consistency is not exactly my strongest trait.

For the last 2 weeks it’s been raining a lot, so I haven’t done anything interesting to write about - that’s why I skipped last (14th) weeknote.

I have been focusing on diet and physical activity recently - it's one of my yearly goals - and I thought that spring is the best time to try to establish some kind of routine.

I'm completely off schedule with weeknotes now, but I finally finished my work transition and hopefully will have a lot of free time from now on.