ADHD

i bought an orange juicer. been making orange juice every other day. it's awesome

and i'm not even over my dishwasher high

People talking and analyzing the movies and tv series I watched as a kid with each video ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours, 14 minutes and 28 seconds

Lately, it's been the man pages for bash. Linux is a rabbit hole all on its own. The man pages lead you from one hole to another and each has its own usefulness. Who would have thought that reading the manual could actually be useful?

Househunting

Learning Japanese on Duolingo and other sources (learnjapanese.moe) because why not

cookie clicker again... Same save this time tho

Oh and I started a modded Minecraft server again... Well that one was just yesterday

the biathlon world championships!

New Zealand birds

I wrote an Excel macro in VBA that opens a file select window, imports the selected files as new worksheets, copies the data from each worksheet recursively into a master table, prompts the user to delete the imported tables, then prompts the user to save the workbook as a new file.

Excel does have functions that achieve basically the same thing, but it was being too finicky with how it wanted the source tables formatted.

I barely know VBA and idek wtf a Boolean variable is, but I fucking did it and it's going to make mine and my team's life so much easier at work. That was my whole Friday lmao

I frequently have to dump a bunch of data from our accounting system, and the process afterward involves a ton of manual cutting and pasting. When I have to do it 70 times, it's physically and mentally exhausting. I'm not the only one who has complained about this process, and nobody has done anything to make it better. So I'm fixing that shit. I'm not a programmer. I'm an accountant. But I'm also so lazy that I'll to learn how to program a little to save myself a lot of work over the long run.

Work believe it not. Been trying to fiddle around and get an integration working so the team working on it don’t take 3 times the effort. I really should let go and let them try it out themselves but it’s a fun distraction.

Toying with the idea of running my own email server. Lots of people say this is a bad idea.

Been doing lots of research. I have a VPS for it already and want to set it up with postfix, dovecot, roundcube, and mariadb.

I don't want to host locally because I don't want it to depend on my internet connection and because my ip address will likely change at some point and most residential IPs are blacklisted.

But also don't want to host it on someone else's machine unless I can totally encrypt the drive. I have been looking at how to do full drive encryption on a vps hard drive by adding dropbear ssh to the initsys so I can ssh in and enter the decryption password when rebooting.

This also doesn't seem ideal, because it would require me to be available to do this for every reboot.

So still researching to see what other options there are.

KCD2

Been rebinging Warehouse 13 (dumb but I love it). It stayed as an attempt to trick myself into doing some long overdue paperwork - even doing it slowly while half watching show is better than continuing to avoid it completely. That worked for a day or so, but now I've descended to just cycling through savoury and sweet snacks and watching a season a day...