{"id":2799,"date":"2024-10-20T13:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2024-11-28T23:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:25:13","slug":"uwa-its-been-dead-for-a-while-hm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Uwa! It’s been dead for a while, hm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hi again! Looks like this page has been a bit… well, to put it bluntly, stagnant, for a while. Stagnant doesn’t really do it justice- I think the most whimsical synonym for “stagnant” I could conjure right now would be exanimate or perhaps, sordidly inanimate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a good reason for it though! Moving back home to Manchester put me back into a rather sorry mental state, and I lost the motivation to keep updating this site. But hey, I moved out a long time ago, got a job, and since have been a bit better! Until I moved in with a live-in landlady and things have since also been a bit… well, it’s very anxiety inducing to live here- it feels as though I’m domineered over and have little control. But that’s life… I’ll be more cautious with picking a place to live next time. My dad committing suicide, my childhood best boy pet being put down alone, and my mom getting an unfortunate diagnosis, didn’t help either \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least I’m blessed with great colleagues, an even greater girlfriend, a slightly less great but still great place to work, and one great remaining parent (who causes a lot of stress to me, but yeah that’s life.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sunrise over Loch Mullardoch, September 2024 \ud83d\ude01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Anyway, enough depressing speak. The reason for this post: I anticipate moving the website to a new host at some point in the near future- by all means, by the end of December 2024 when my Bluehost hosting expires. Why<\/em>? Well, Bluehost want \u00a3300 to renew for 3 years- most other hosts for a similar website (I get barely any visitors, and don’t take too much storage) want about \u00a3150. So yeah, moving hosts. I’m not spending \u00a3300 for a site that gets a handful of visitors yearly! \ud83d\ude00 There may be some downtime on the site as a result while I meander through the labyrinthine process of migrating. UPDA<\/span><\/em>TE! Host move complete, I took a four-year plan with Hostinger and renewed my domain until the next presidency. Woot hoot.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Mullach Fraoch Choire, from A’ Chr\u00e0laig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While I’m here, it’s probably worth noting down the photographic plans! My Lunar Solo tent has had its last jaunt, and with that I’ll be fishing up a new tent at some point in early 2025 for my solo Spring\/Summer\/Autumn trips. While I still have two visits to Madeira in 2024, 2025 will be full of photographic trips… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • At least 4-5 weeks in Scotland<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Finland in March\/April for 2 weeks <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Madeira at some other point in the year for 1 week <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The exact plan for Scotland is still up in the air- I’m definitely going to go for 2-3 week-long “expedition style” trips… I’ll be joining a gym once I’m back from Madeira in a few weeks to get a bit more in shape for those, as the 8-day without re-supply in September definitely showed that my body isn’t the best for long distance\/altitude gains over sustained days. I need more muscle on the upper body (my legs are fine, though :P.) There’re a few spots I definitely want to visit in 2025, though!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Hopefully more of this in 2025! I might just get another Lunar Solo, it really is a phenomenal tent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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    Hi again! Looks like this page has been a bit… well, to put it bluntly, stagnant, for a while. Stagnant doesn’t really do it justice- I think the most whimsical synonym for “stagnant” I could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}