Retired at 37

Apr 25, 2026
Writing An Integration For Home Assistant
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I wished there was a bass and treble adjustment in the CamillaDSP integration for home assistant. There was another problem I wished it could have solved. You see, for the integration to work, both CamillaDSP and CamillaDSP GUI servers need to be running. I did not want the CamillaDSP GUI server to be running all the time just to be able to change the configs. The CamillaDSP server itself is capable of switching configs. Just that the home assistant integration did not use those APIs.
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Apr 7, 2026
Year In Review - 2025 Annual Expenses
In the previous post I wrote about my monthly expenses. This is the continuation of that post and I will be covering my annual expenses in 2025. While monthly expenses are those kind of expenses that occur more frequently, yearly expenses occur rarely, perhaps once every few years like house repairs or buying a new TV etc. I will explain where we are spending the most and why. Remember that for all the expenses, whether monthly or annual, the money is coming out of my retirement corpus which consists of a bunch of debt and equity mutual funds. There are no other incomes or special savings for annual expenses.
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