August 2025

Life (and Burnout)

I have been stragenly very happy these days. I was having this same conversation with my friends and cousins and I think I can really see how much I was burnt out at the previous role.

The sun is brighter and the air is a bit more crisp-er right now.
I no longer resent myself and others for spending time away from work.
I no longer resent myself for not working / studying.

I am much more kinder to myself and to others.

My relationship with work has also improved.

I am working on things apart from work and I am excited about these things. :)
They do not feel like a chore.

Running

I HAVE STARTED RUNNING AGAIN!!

AND I DONT SUCK. :)))

AND IT DOESN'T HURT. :)

I wrote about it here

Bangalore Homelab Meetup

My friend Tanvi and Chaitanya started the Bangalore Homelab Meetup, which I attended.

It was very nice to hang out with a bunch of people who have very very similar interests.

I spoke to Chaitanya about his blogging setup and I felt that we had very very similar goals. He was also in the process of building a system that would let him publish his markdown notes very easily.

The goal of the meet was to break the inertia and just get started on any hardware that we have lying around. Since I moved to Bangalore and then again moved to bangalore, I didnt have the chance to get my Raspberry-Pi based server up and running. I call it rrusty and someday I will post about it too.

The Rpi was too dusty etc, so I spent sometime just cleaning it up. Then after powering it on, I realized that my drives were both 4 years old, which is not a good thing at all; especially since I do not have backups at all. (Its quite bad).

I ordered a backup drive that same weekend and proceeded to backup both of those drives on it.

On that note, I am in love with Western Digital because their 5TB 2.5inch drives also have SMART support which is something I was missing with Seagate.

Rock-Climbing

I have always wanted to rock-climb but due to the fact that I need to be able to talk to other people to do; I have not been a regular to the climbing gym near my home.

However now, I have friends who also climb and the more I climb with other people, the more I realize that all the troubles are in my head (ofcourse). The community is very kind and very fun.

That said, I did buy a 10-visit pass for Equilibrium Climbing Station and I plan to visit this place atleast once-every week.

I wont be able to visit untill Sept 21, because I have a Half-Marathon that I am training for so I will focus on that.

Fun-Fact: I bought a pair of climbing shoes. I found them at a great discount (these are refurbished ones from Decathlon) while returning from a trek.

I do need to be more regular with this.

Hiking around Bangalore

I went on an exploratory Hike with Shresth at BlrHikes.
The place was located just outside ChikkaBallapur which is a town about 60 kms from Bangalore.

I took the bike out and it was fun. We explore some unexplored trails and them took a dip at a waterbody. We followed that with some coffee and noodles. Shreshth carries around his cooking kit, so that was extremely handy on the trail.