Matisyahu's Blog

Well, I went to the Awanui Labs blood testing for my A1C test however I also found that there was an urine test (I saw it on the document my doctor gave me, thought it may have been a mistake) so I guess the reason was to also check my kidney function as well. Normally it takes a few days to get a response back from the lab but I’m hoping that they’re good results or at least show some progress from my original test to where I am now. Improving health overnight won’t occur but if there is at least some progress in the numbers then it is a matter of being on the right course and just keeping on that course. It is a bit like weight loss because god knows it would be nice if it were possible to lose all the undesirable weight in a matter of a few months and then end up at around 85-90kg but alas we live in the real world and progress is always an uphill slog but once you get there you look back down from where you came from and compare it to where you are – it feels pretty good having accomplished it.

After getting all that done I dropped in at the local Dutch bakery to have some eggs bene along with a mocaccino – my treat that I have once a month mainly because I’m too lazy to make all the components and when I have tried in the past it has come off as rather half baked especially when one considers all the work that went into it. Long story short, I’d prefer to pay someone else deal with it so then I can relax and enjoy the experience. Oh, and the icing on the cake there is a good 5G connection so I can stream YouTube videos as I was having my meal. After I finished my brunch I walked back home which is around 1.6km which is a good walk after a meal. For those wondering, I had an eggs bene with smoked salmon and wilted spinach – I always like to make sure I get my greens when I can.

I’ll be heading off tonight to have dinner with mum and then on the way home I’ll pick up some groceries, then when I come back I’ll have a walk (probably just an 8km walk), have a shower then relax in bed for an early night sleep. Last night I got to sleep at around midnight and had a long night sleep where I felt quite refreshed in the morning.

I’ve been pretty happy with Chrome paticularly with the great work that has been done not only by Chrome developers adding functional to the declarative net request API to address developer concerns but also how well uBlock Origin Lite is working particularly with the added ‘zapper’ where you can select elements on a page to ‘zap’. As features are added to MV3 you’ll find that uBlock Origin Lite will provide support (the ‘classical’ uBlock Origin implements a lot of functionality that would need to be re-written from the ground up to make it compatible with MV3). If you’re wanting to keep up with the latest developments for Chrome it can be found at the Chrome roadmap which gives a good insight on what Google have planned for the upcoming releases for Chrome (link).