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##### Analogue Tools

I use paper notebooks and pens and pencils in preference to digital tools for everyday tasks. And I write a daily diary using fountain pens and watercolor paints in a hardback A5 dotted-grid notebook. I also keep a "5-year diary" that's just a few lines each day - one page covers a 5 year span, so you can instantly look back over the years each day as you add a new entry. Barring catastrophic accidents you're more likely to keep your paper memories around for your whole life, which is unlikely for digital records, as technology changes and files are lost, forgotten or become obsolete. Paper and pen never dies.

  * Leuchtturm 1917 - A5 Dotted Grid Notebook - daily diary
  * Lamy Safari Fountain Pens
    * Black (filled with Platinum Carbon Black ink)
    * White (filled with Diamine Eau-de-Nil ink)
    * Red (filled with Diamine Poppy Red ink)
  * Kaweco Sport fountain pen
  * Pentel P209 0.9mm mechanical pencils
  * Mitsubishi Uni-ball Eye UB-157
    * Red
    * Green
    * Blue
    * Black
  * Pentel Aquash Water brush - Fine or Medium
  * Winsor & Newton Cotman Pocket Sketcher Watercolour set
  * Blackwing 602 pencils
  * Leuchtturm 1917 - "Some Lines a Day" 5 year diary
  * Leuchtturm 1917 - A6 pocket dotted grid notebook
  * Victorinox Swiss Army Knife - Climber
  
##### Calculator

These are the ones I use almost daily. There are others in my ["collection"](https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:calculator:start)
 
  * Swiss Micros [DM41X](https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm41x)
  * Swiss Micros [DM15L](https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm15l) with [LF15C 3rd party firmware](https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:calculator:3rd:lf15c)
  * [Free42](https://thomasokken.com/free42/) android app on 'phone

##### Computer & Phone

  * Dell Latitude 7390 laptop
    * Devuan Linux (Debian without Systemd)
    * **dwm** window manager, with config at [dwm github](https://github.com/gm4slv/dwm)
    * **dwmblocks** status bar with config at [dwmblocks](https://github.com/gm4slv/dwmblocks)
    * **dmenu** config at [dmenu](https://github.com/gm4slv/dmenu)
  * Vim
  * Librewolf Browser
  * Claws Mail email client
  * Liferea RSS aggregator
  * Gnucash finance
  * Nextcloud client (syncing my Murena.io cloud account to my laptop)
  * Fairphone6 with /e/OS de-googled Android
  * Cloud services via [murena workspace](https://murena.com/workspace/) which seems to be an ethical non-spying cloud service, built using Nextcloud, from the same people that maintain the google-free /e/OS android that I have on my Fairphone6. I decided to use murena instead of self-hosting a Nextcloud instance.
    * paid-for 20GB account

##### Server
  
  * VPS 1 from Fasthosts running Ubuntu providing:
    * Wiki - [Dokuwiki](https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki) 
    * Blog - [Pure Blog](https://g4slv.info/)
    * my old year-2000-ish hand written [website](https://g4slv.info/website)
      * When I discovered the website files in a zip archive I found some old mp3 files I made in around 2002. Could I *really* play mandolin this quickly once upon a time? [Mason's Reel](https://g4slv.info/website/pshed/mason_c.mp3) and [Farewell to Erin](https://g4slv.info/website/pshed/erin_a.mp3) where I played mandolin & bodhran in a ramshackle method of overdubbing
 
##### Music & Media 

  * NAD 302 Stereo Amplifier
  * Denon DCD-600NE CD Player
  * Dual CS-505 turntable
  * JVC FX-311L Tuner
  * Panasonic DMP-BDT180 DVD Player
  * Sky Q Box
  * Samsung 32" TV of some sort
  * Gale 3010S bookshelf speakers

##### Watch

I have a small collection of watches but I'm trying to stop myself becoming a watch-collector, as I can't afford it!

  * Damasko DA36 + Damasko steel bracelet
    * my favourite & main everyday wear watch - bought in 2016
    * repaired once in 2019 when it started keeping erratic time
    * repaired & serviced again in 2022 following a drop that dislodged the lume from one of the hands 
    * [DA36 info on my wiki](https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:miscellany:watches:damasko:start)
    * keeps very good time - currently running at approx. +2 seconds/day
  * Seiko SKX007 on Strapcode Oyster bracelet. 
    * Bought in 2016. My 2nd favourite watch.
  * Seiko Turtle SRPE93K1
  * Casio G-Shock GW-M5610
  * Casio G-Shock GA-B2100
  * CWC G-10
  * Garmin Instinct 2 Solar smart-watch/fitness tracker
    * I stopped wearing this after finding it exhausting keeping up with the tracking data and prefer just wearing a plain-old-analogue watch
  * full list and some notes on my [wiki](https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:miscellany:watches:start)