I wrote my own media application to generate a media player with static playlist for the browser with dynamic sorting and filtering so that I can play media on my phone from a media server I own instead of paying for streaming.

I drive way across town to go to a wholesale grocery stores to buy produce in bulk. This is what I look forward to on the weekends. I have to pass nearly a dozen supermarkets to get there, but its worth it. I can typically get a 30 pound box of tomatoes for $19. Sometimes I can get 40 pound box of bananas for $20 or less. I can sometimes get a giant 10 pound wheel of Brie from France for $7 or a 40 pound wheel of Asiago for $19. Last week they were selling 12 6-packs of flour tortillas for $1 and 40 pounds of high quality dog food for $29.

I have a tiny yard, but I also have multiple fruit trees. I get several dozens pounds of grapes off one grapevine (pink Iona) and this year expect to get thousands of figs off my large fig tree (florea) and several dozen persimmons. For my persimmon tree I ordered a mini-chocolate persimmon, which is like an Asian Hachiya persimmons that are just a little larger than American persimmons with deep brown fruit, but immediately after I planted it the tree genetically divested a second trunk producing American persimmon leaves and American persimmon fruit. Next year I am also hoping for dozens of pounds of cherries off a Lapins Cherry tree. We also in the past grown cabbage and broccoli, but by far the most productive salad crop is okra.

I bought my second Kia Soul for $17,000 and still drive it 8 years later. I have never had a mechanical failure on it. I am on my third battery and only gone through a flat tire once. I don't need any security package because it is a manual transmission, and of course who wants to steal an old Kia Soul?