Checking in – October 2025

Again, not much happened this month (like every month!) so just a few quick bullet points to round out the month.

Meta stuff

I have downsized my planner. I used to have a daily planner and a weekly planner, one to hold events and logs and one to hold statistics, but I have now combined them into one weekly planner. I have noticed that I hardly have enough things to fill out the daily pages and having two books is a bit annoying. So now I don't. As of time of writing (27th) I have merged the two together.

Unifying to weekly allows me to see more at a glance, but now everything is very cramped. It seems like being able to see more makes me want to write more, so that's surprising. But it's fine; probably after the excitement of a new planner wears off everything will settle in fine.

It's interesting to me, when I realised it as I am writing this, that the paper planner I'm using (Jibun Techo, since 2015) is younger than the digital planner that I'm using (org-mode, since 2009).

Everything else

• My favourite burger place is shutting down its branches and I have to go further and further to get one. This is annoying.
• Parking meter prices have gone up for the first time in my lifetime and change (34 years).
• Doctor prices will also go up next year.
• My weight has gone up ever so slightly from 62 to 63 pushing 64 kg. It's nothing particularly alarming but I still kind of feel unhappy about it for some reason. As you may be aware I weigh in every day just after dinner (to get a daily maximum weight) so I get a rough idea of what the trends are.
• Speaking of trends, I have apparently been able to reduce the inflammation index again so that means I get yet another reprieve from the biologics.
• The JLPT looks really intimidating yet I still can't really be bothered to do any reasonable preparations for it.