Feb 02 - Feb 08

Workweek I felt tired, fatigued and little unfocused, but it was actually quite productive week work-wise. Not sure what was the cause. On Wednesday I got distracted by operational tasks for a whole day and felt drained but fulfilled. I failed to follow my morning routine this week to wake up on time (and not postpone it), have a breakfast take a shower before work. During the work day I had to make few breaks and then I worked in the evening which surely contributed to my fatigue. Almost every day I had to take a nap after work for at least 20-30minutes.

This week I've managed to do taxes and was pleasantly surprised that some of it was much easier to do than last year. For Health insurance I had to insert single number - taxable income and then just click next button 2-3 times. That was it. All money were already accounted / calculated and everything else filled in. Thats how it should be. Social insurance was bit more complicated but also were simplified. Some data I had to put, some I had to get from their own site but different service. No need to calculate payments from last year, they have it now. Tax form took me a little longer just because this year I was renting my flat which was new to me and I had to find few laws and rules, but nothing super complicated.
Tax form took me about 1-2 hours. Health insurance took me literally few minutes and Social insurance about 20 minutes. I remember that It used to take me part of Saturday and part of Sunday in the past.

This week apart from few short walks joint with little shopping, I didn't do anything else. Weather is okay-ish but still cold under 10°C with occasional rain which discourage me from running. If I wasn't tired after work I'd visit HoB Fitness. Can't use bike yet. Rest of my free time I was doing household chores.

On a Friday after work we took taxi and went to do a big shopping at one supermarket in Novi Zagreb, since there is no other supermarket nearby. I came up with idea to prepare few proper meals for a weekend, quickly prepared shopping list and off we went. When we returned It was 22pm, but we managed to get everything needed. On one side I miss convenience of living near by shopping center, on the other hand I find this bigger shopping exhausting.

I've also prepared a Vietnamese Bún chả, but I didn't get a photo of it. All was good.

Last time I've seen my doctor we made a deal that I'll try to reduce my elevated cholesterol via diet and sport otherwise I'll have to start taking pills for it. So far I'm not fulfilling that promise at all. Minimal sport activities and my diet is not great either but I've definitely added more vegetables and fiber into it. And that is actually a pretty good step forward. All gut related (I mean shit related) issues disappeared completely.

I've progressed with my home temperature measurement project, but had to order few smaller components from Aliexpress and have to wait for it for a month again. But in Zagreb its already installed and working fine, its just not on batteries yet. There are just a few details that I have to resolve - web presentation - adjusting colors, dealing with UTC times and my raspberry's bluetooth occasionally get stuck, so I've implemented enterprise solution for it: configured periodic restarts for it.

Sport

• Nothing. I just have few excuses mostly pointing at weather and no time as usual.

Consumption

• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition. The very first version was extra-ordinarily immersive for a RTS. I remember It was often tense and I think that biggest contributor was perfect audio work. Later expansions were unfortunately bugged and I missed that. Interestingly there are just a few people on the internet that noticed it and commented on it

Notice

• During our strolls I've realized that houses in our neighborhood are huge. Specifically tall but overall huge. What is 2 floor + attic here could be 4 floor house in Slovakia / Czechia.
• VZP and CSSZ both progressed in online world. Its good to see where my taxes are going and would love to see more.