Matisyahu's Blog

I don’t know what on earth has happened with NZ Post but holy heck the quality has gone down hill within a matter of months. I remember in the past you could order something on Friday, get shipped out on Friday night, take the over night truck down to Wellington and then have it delivered on Monday. That was the norm but here I am, ordered a few items on early Friday morning (around 2am), I get confirmation of the product shipping later that day and it’ll be Wednesday (based on the estimated delivery date). Yeah, I understand there are delays down to Christchurch based on their website but I don’t live in Christchurch – if it is impacting all shipments out of Auckland then just say that. What do hope is that it arrives on my door step tomorrow before work so then I can spend time setting it up.

On a good side I was able to sell the iPhone along with Apple TV 4K – money is in the bank and working away at paying things down. The person who bought it came around and we had a chat, the reason I was moving was because I find iCloud limiting and the ‘Hide My Email’ generated email addresses aren’t particular professional when wanting to provide them to places that request an email. Add to that the fact that I prefer using Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite not to mention I find that Google Workspace apps such as GMail as more reliable than using the built in mail app where it is a crapshoot whether the aliases I have setup on iCloud appear in Apple Mail (9/10 they never turn up or I have issues with the send server not sending because for some reason the smtp server disappears in Apple Mail even though I hadn’t touched a thing).

I didn’t go for a walk tonight because it was raining but on a good side I kept my calories/carbs in balance today so it isn’t much of a major issue. One of the things I have worked on working on having a balanced diet because I am reminded of the old saying “you cannot outrun a bad diet” – going for a walk every night is an ‘icing on the cake’ but ultimately weight loss comes down to what you eat each day. On a good side, after doing it for around 3-4 months I look back at how much money I wasted on take aways being delivered or junk food but how I am not only healthier I also have more money in my pocket to be able to buy the things I want rather than always struggling, living from payday to payday but never having anything tangible to show for it.

I’ll eventually work my way through some of the clothes I have – some of them are looking pretty worse for wear having been in my wardrobe for a while, some are just gone out of style and not my thing. I tend to dress pretty conservatively primarily because I prefer to buy clothing that I can keep for a long time without it going out of style.