Broken record of recurrent thoughts
Feb. 7th, 2026 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI mention a few recurring topics, probably because I still haven't properly addressed them. For instance, my weight's now 37kg higher than when I left the US. In Asia I wanted to try all the foods, then here in the UK there are often tasty temporary discount foods available. (In the UK there are more unhealthy foods that tempt me, than in the US.) Now I need to finally get a grip. The family in general seem to have some interest in fitness, I should finally go ahead and buy that cross-trainer. I'll look around online at reviews. Perhaps it'll be easier to eat better if I don't want my exercising to go to waste.
I also need to get back to writing code in Haskell and in Rust. Quite how and when this happens, I am not sure. I do need a reliable personal computer, I don't let personal stuff touch my work laptop, which is a Mac anyway thus suboptimal for me. This laptop I'm typing on now, I am not even sure each time if it'll boot, and it's already suffered rather, e.g., audio's now somewhat broken; I recall this one getting repaired back when I lived in Eastern Tennessee. Given current hardware prices, it's a bad time to buy but may be for some time yet. I am still thinking, a small laptop useful for commuting, and a tall-cased desktop system into which I can put RAM and GPU/TPU when it becomes affordable someday. My only not-known-unreliable systems are just a couple of Intel NUCs that I bought well before I moved to the US, hardly the kinds of things to try to do Rust development on now. When local LLM hardware becomes affordable, I could run an opensource one on the desktop and chat to it over the network from my laptop, there are always factual questions that I have about well-understood topics.
R. is thinking about when and how we move to live somewhere else. For a couple more years yet, high school catchment area remains quite a constraint, though I can look around on Google's satellite imagery to see if I can spot any unnoticed-by-us in-catchment developments with garden flats (for letting L. out easily) near a subway station (for commuting to work). Local rail might have worked except the in-catchment stations connect to Central Station and the frequent express to Edinburgh (where jobs are) leaves from Queen Street Station, so that transfer would be yet another step on the commute.
Still, in the longer term, perhaps we can move out of the city but still within easy local rail to Queen Street and transfer to the express to work. Glasgow remains a pleasing option with having that express, and being the largest city in Scotland, we even have an annual furry convention. Our location's great now: with living inside the subway loop, we have so much that is pleasantly at hand. Aberdeen was good, and much better-run, but so far from everywhere else except by air. Edinburgh itself, where decent jobs are most likely to be, has no subway, plenty of traffic, and is full of steep hills, and full of tourists and the shops that sell expensive tat to them. I prefer driving even in central London than central Edinburgh.
I also need to get back to writing code in Haskell and in Rust. Quite how and when this happens, I am not sure. I do need a reliable personal computer, I don't let personal stuff touch my work laptop, which is a Mac anyway thus suboptimal for me. This laptop I'm typing on now, I am not even sure each time if it'll boot, and it's already suffered rather, e.g., audio's now somewhat broken; I recall this one getting repaired back when I lived in Eastern Tennessee. Given current hardware prices, it's a bad time to buy but may be for some time yet. I am still thinking, a small laptop useful for commuting, and a tall-cased desktop system into which I can put RAM and GPU/TPU when it becomes affordable someday. My only not-known-unreliable systems are just a couple of Intel NUCs that I bought well before I moved to the US, hardly the kinds of things to try to do Rust development on now. When local LLM hardware becomes affordable, I could run an opensource one on the desktop and chat to it over the network from my laptop, there are always factual questions that I have about well-understood topics.
R. is thinking about when and how we move to live somewhere else. For a couple more years yet, high school catchment area remains quite a constraint, though I can look around on Google's satellite imagery to see if I can spot any unnoticed-by-us in-catchment developments with garden flats (for letting L. out easily) near a subway station (for commuting to work). Local rail might have worked except the in-catchment stations connect to Central Station and the frequent express to Edinburgh (where jobs are) leaves from Queen Street Station, so that transfer would be yet another step on the commute.
Still, in the longer term, perhaps we can move out of the city but still within easy local rail to Queen Street and transfer to the express to work. Glasgow remains a pleasing option with having that express, and being the largest city in Scotland, we even have an annual furry convention. Our location's great now: with living inside the subway loop, we have so much that is pleasantly at hand. Aberdeen was good, and much better-run, but so far from everywhere else except by air. Edinburgh itself, where decent jobs are most likely to be, has no subway, plenty of traffic, and is full of steep hills, and full of tourists and the shops that sell expensive tat to them. I prefer driving even in central London than central Edinburgh.
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Date: 2026-02-07 07:09 pm (UTC)