Sloshing water in your mouth, just before you go to bed, helps trigger cleansing receptors that clean your brain off nightmares. Said nobody wise and scientific. But if my five year old trusts it religiously and does it every night, it’s a lie worth telling. Just like contact lenses help see your bones.

A friend led a whisky tasting session last night. The Mexican Prieto Y Prieta was terrific. Even better though was spending some great time with a group of guys with such different backgrounds!

Setup a Linkding instance on the Moose for better managing my bookmarks. Not a huge fan of the name but it’s a great lightweight app doing just what it’s built for. The HTTP Shortcuts app on FDroid is a decent partner app to share bookmarks from the phone.

Infyblogs and the internal BB were a great place to hang out! Over the last couple decades, haven’t quite found a thriving network that is anywhere similar to those channels. Thinking of it, my foray into Linux was solely due to InfyLUG! Wonder if they still have those running!

After last weekends’ hike, I threw my back out doing something super mundane. Had to take a day off work just to let it heal out. Tiny muscles I didn’t know existed were screaming out. If anything, it made me realise how incredibly complex our bodies are and a subtle reminder to strengthen the core.

Focusing on the ‘Why’ rather than the ‘Who’ when doing a postmortem of an incident - Such a nuanced yet pivotal shift!

Super interesting how so many things unrelated connect in weird ways!

I’ve been wanting to scout out the Izta-Popo national park ever since I got a sneak peek at the volcanoes while in Ikea a few months ago. Several blogs pointed at exploring this region by doing the La Joya traverse which essentially gets one to the base of the Iztaccihuatl volcano. I head out this morning to Amecameca - a small quaint town to the east of Mexico City. The bus that left TAPO [Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente] around 0700 only got to Amecameca by 0900. Should have left earlier! From there at the Centro, I was able to hop into a cab that got me to Paso de Cortes around 0930. ...

Terrific night at Pinche Bar. M would have had a great time had she come.

Ouch! You probably need to get their Expedition edition for 2024.