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Yesterday, I said that I wanted to focus more on my upcoming post. To give each one a sense of clarity. I gave myself a reasonable deadline of starting on Day 8 of 30 so that I could continue to cut my chops here like I’m doing. Writing is its own focus, but I find what I’ve been writing to be a little too wandering, even for me.

My eventual goal is to tie everything together in a digital garden. The garden will link all my interests, research, tutorials, and anecdotal experiences together. Ideally, any post on my “garden” should let you meander your way to any other by only following links in the document or footer itself. This is a lot of work compared to the usual work of clicking upload after slapping a few buttons in there, with their own button clicks even.

I’m not sure I’ll ever move beyond Obsidian’s site hosting software. The price point is ideal for me at this time in life and it has the linking to different pages baked in. The hold up for me right now is going back, combing through, and finding the relevant documents to link. When I first started using the software, I saw it more as a gimmick and never bothered with it for three years. It’s a lot of random notes to go through and link.

This year is going to be a lot of redrawing the borders of my garden and figuring out where I want the walkways and what plants are going where. With any luck, I’ll attract a few visitors from time to time. Substack and Medium have no such features, of course, but I’ve been told those are two of the best places to get your writing out there. Though the quality here isn’t professional, I prefer sharing my development publicly so others can later compare my ideas with my execution.

As far as experiments in focusing on a single topic go, the above felt good to write. I think I’ll be able to tackle topics in small bites, at least. Again, this exercise is all about building up the writing muscle.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far, and take care till next time.

I think the most surprising part was just how easy it was once I had that moment of clarity. Thank you, though.

I’m glad I didn’t receive an overwhelming amount of work today; I have the energy to write far beyond my 200-word goal. Unfortunately, the day off has given me plenty of time to think, and has divided my attention on what I could spend my time diving into.

I waffled back and forth on even bringing up my brush with postpartum depression in fathers. Despite checking almost all the boxes, I was fairly certain I wasn’t struggling. I shrugged off almost all of it in the middle of picking up cleaning supplies in Lowe’s. I realized that dwelling in the deep melancholy I was feeling might be the most selfish thing I could be doing. My wife and daughter deserved a selfless husband and father. Realizing how I was acting, I felt the wet blanket that had been smothering my joy for several weeks fall off. In the week since then, I’ve felt better than I have in a month.

Something that might be helping with that is my wife’s insistence that I get back to running after work again. Sure, it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, and only 40 today, but it was daylight, so out the door I went. Given the chill and my lack of cold endurance, I kept both relatively short. Hopefully, in a few months I can get back to regular 5km runs, but for now the 1.25 mile jogs are good enough.

To launch my new YouTube channel, I’m creating: I’ve decided to make a short video of my beehive restoration. I’ll have to type out the process here on the blog, but that’ll come out after the video goes up so I can cross-link properly. I don’t think it’ll be too difficult. Installing the new wax foundations should take longer than the hive restoration. Either way, I’ll need to clean my shop up first, and I have a phone call to make to the beekeeper I’m getting mu nucs from. It’ll be good for me to go into my concerns and mitigation strategies before I implement them as well.

Last, thanks to the video feed today, I’ve settled on making a quick programming guide for the VGC N7500 and N76. It’s a combo video since they both use the same app, and the hard part is typing everything into the app. It’ll give me an excuse to sit down and sort out why I can’t seem to get WinLink working quite right. Once I get that solved, I can try out some more advanced digital modes. I’m fairly certain unpairing and repairing the radios from my phone will solve the main issue I’m having, since a reset like that seems to solve most control issues like I’m experiencing.

If you’ve made it to the end here, thanks. I didn’t set out an obvious goal for these, so they’re coming across more like a live journal than a proper post. I’m keeping up with this through February at least though, but starting next week (Day 8, we’ll say), I’ll be transitioning to a more focused writing. Sticking to one topic and making the published post about that.

Till next time, take care.

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Hey fedi, hows it goin tonight?

I’ve tackled the HAM side of SDR, and I’m surprised no one ever mentioned that device. I’ve looked into building one with a raspberrypi or arduino, too. Are you specifically wanting a transceiver or just a reciever?