Today I had to drive a substitute var while our new car was at the repair shop. No, there is nothing wrong with it, it's just getting it's windshield replaced. I noticed a small crack at the windshield back when I was test driving it and requested it to be repaired before making the deal. The dealer agreed and told me I could either get the car in a few days and bring it back when the new windshield arrives or wait a couple of weeks. Of course I couldn't wait, even with this little hassle of getting the car back there and having a substitute for a couple of days.

I hate reflective screens! For my laptop and external screens I always opt for matte screens. Unfortunately there is no phone maker that provides that option for any of their phones. To solve this issue I have been using matte screen protectors to get rid of that annoying glare.

Putting random piles of LEGO brocks back into sets has several steps. After acquiring a mixed pile of LEGO the first step is sorting the bricks into different piles based on their shape. After identifying the potential sets the next step is collecting all the pieces for that set and listing the missing pieces. Then I need to go hunting for the missing pieces. When I finally have (hopefully) all the pieces it's time to start building.

Now you know how to calculate the weekday of any given date, but why is it called the doomsday algorithm?

Now that I have gone through all the things to remember when calculating the weekday of any given date it's finally time to go through the actual algorithm. The basic odea is to figure out the weekday of the doomsday and then use those dates to calculate the weekday of the actual date relative to them.

Final thing you need to memorize before you can use the doomsday algorithm are the actual "doomsday dates". These are the dates across the year that fall on the same weekday. Of course you can add or subtract any multiples of seven if you feel you have better mnemonics for any particular month.

To figure out the weekday of any given date you need two things: a list of numbers to remember and the way to calculate the doomsday number for any given year.

There are 3 set of numbers to remember. The first one is easy, just the order number of the weekday. Starting from Monday as 1, Tuesday as 2 and so on. Except Sunday is 0. So kinda like starting the week from Sunday and counting from zero instead of Monday and one.

There sometimes comes situations when you need to know the weekday of some particular date. If it's close enough to the current date, or some other date you know the weekday it's quite simple to count the weekday. But when you don't have any reference point it becomes a trickier.

The doomsday algorithm solves that problem. It's a simple mathematical formula you can use to calculate the weekday of any date. In addition to knowing the formula you also need to memorize few set of rules to assign certain numbers based on the century the date is on and a number for each month.

Apart from all those beeping noises and warnings the new car does have some other ways to make up the lack of engine sounds. The mandatory VESS is there, now it can't be turned off anymore. I wish they could have done the same with the speed limit notification as they did with the VESS before it became mandatory.

When I first got my hands on on our previous car I thought it had everything. Well, there were two things missing that I knew of, but it felt like there wasn't anything else one can hope from a car. After two test drives, driving the new car back home and a couple of hours of driving around just for the joy the old car seems so outdated. The new car has everything, even those two features I was missing on the old one. And then some more!

When there was more people living around the house the bathroom was littered with different bottles of shampoo, conditioner, soap and many other things I didn't even know what they were for. It wasn't just by need. There were also bottles which were deepend not to be good enough and just somehow lingered there.

According to some random internet statistics 90% of the people experience earworms.e.g. getting a song, or usually part of a song, stuck on repeat playing in your head. Sometimes it can also be just a word, a thought or memory. But why does this happen?

I went to see another Ioniq 6 today from another dealer. I have been discussing about this car and the deal for a while already over the emails with the dealer, but wanted to see the car in person before making the deal as it was from the beginning a better deal even though the cars are almost identical.

The home feels empty, silent. My youngest one, who had been staying with me/us since autumn moved back to their own home yesterday. There is just me living here now. And a cat. I was left with one.

It's weird. I have never lived alone in my life. We moved together with my wife, then girlfriend straight from our parents houses. While she was studying she did live away during the weeks, so that could be considered living alone. At least part time. But I didn't realize the implications back then. We were still living together, she was just away a lot. It was different.

I'm not the type of person who always picks the same brand just because it's the same brand. I know some people do, sometimes even to the point that they are making actual bad choices just because they pick their favourite brand even if there would be better choices available.

Many brands do earn their fans. They put a lot of effort to not let their hardcore fans down. And it does make things easier, no need to compare dozens of options when your favourite brand has only a few, or even one available.

We went to test drive the new Ioniq 6 at the local dealership today. It's the car I habe been waiting for ever since the first details of the Prophesy concept it is based on were published. It took a long time to get into production, mostly due to the redesign they had to do as the initial model didn't have much of any resemblance to the concept. Of course the concepts are always done with no limitations while the production cars need to abide a plethora of regulations. Despite the changes I still love the final design.

Today I posted a big announcement about one of this years action plans in our company's general Slack channel. Afterwards I got a few private messages asking how much of that post was written by AI. We do have a policy that every piece of AI written ot assisted texts should be clearly marked as such and I do also follow that rule.

Since I started my latest collection hobby I have picked up a new habit: skimming through the listings on a local second hand marketplace. At least it's something else than doomscrolling what's wrong with the world today.

The good thing of having a long wantlist is that there might more often be something from my list for sale. The bad thing is that there is almost always something to buy. If I just wanted to buy any of the items in my list I know other places where I could get them right away. But the thrill is in the marketplace there might be really good deals occasionally.

Finally back home! The four day trip was quite exhausting. All the driving, sleeping in different bed and meeting all the people left me quite tired. But it was also nice getting away from home for a while and meeting all the people.

It would have been easy to just stay at home. No travelling, comfort of own bed, own space and not having to meet other people. I don't know if the last one if any good. I have become quite antisocial and not really looking forward to any social situations. So it's good to force myself to get into more interaction every now and then.

We drove the last leg to the borth of our trip today when we visited my parents at our "cottage". Getting norther the weather was getting even colder, it was almost -30 degrees at our destination.

Even if the trip wasn't that long and we were avle to start off with full battery I wanted to save some energy and minimize charging times along the way. This is a day trip that at warmer weather could easily be done with full battery without any additional stops with our current car.