Matisyahu's Blog

Unfortunately it is still raining outside but I have to admit I love the pitter patter of rain on the roof – when I have difficulty getting to sleep at night I sometimes play rain sounds on my phone that allow me to drift off to sleep. There was a small lull in the weather so I went for a small walk around the block to get some fresh air and for dinner tonight I had some tacos with plenty of vegetables although I don’t like cheese that much so I left that off. It is funny how the last couple years I’ve been avoiding stuff with cheese on it or at lease excessive mounts of cheese – I’m all good for a sandwich with a slice of cheese but I avoid things like macaroni and cheese like the plague.

On Tuesday I’m going to have dinner with mum coming over but I’m unsure what I’ll end up having – maybe a roast chicken? I’d love to have some vegetables and a tandoori flavoured roast chicken. I’ll also need to get organised to return to work on Wednesday and according to Metlink there aren’t any bus replacements for the Hutt Valley line until July then at which point I’ll just pop in on Thursday but work on Wednesday at home because taking the bus replacement is an inconvenience not to mention the fact that it takes longer to get home at the end of the shift. I’m back meal prepping again and I’ll use the insulated bag that I got from work to carry my lunch to work each day – got some soup I picked up from the supermarket which will be warming during the winter.

The UniFi Dream Router 7 is going really well and as I’ve noted I’ve kept it on the default settings except I’ve changed the IP address range to 10.0.1.1 which is the same range that the old Apple Airport used to use. When it comes to the internet connection I’ve decided to use the DNS settings provided to my router by my ISP because in the past I had used a third party DNS resolution service (Cloudflare) because I was going through a patch of unreliable DNS resolution but that appears to be a non-issue these days.

In the last few days I’ve cleaned up all the file tags on my FLAC backups of my CDs so now it only has the required tags needed. After cleaning up the tags I then recompressed all the music again using the new version of dbpoweramp and enabling a few additional features then after I backed the FLAC files along with the newly created AAC files to the iCloud Drive so then I have my backups uploaded to the cloud just in case something happens to my external SSD.